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「プロサバンナ事業の緊急停止と再考を求めるモザンビーク・ブラジル・日本の三カ国首脳宛公開書簡」
- 30 May 2013
モザンビーク共和国政府は、ブラジル連邦共和国政府並びに日本国政府との協力の下、2011年4 月にプロサバンナ事業を開始しました。
China's appetite for pork spurs $4.7 billion Smithfield deal
- Reuters
- 30 May 2013
China's Shuanghui International plans to buy Smithfield Foods Inc for $4.7 billion to feed a growing Chinese appetite for U.S. pork, but the proposed takeover of the world's No. 1 producer has stirred concern in the United States.
Herakles Farms au Cameroun : Bientôt la fin ?
- Al Qarra
- 29 May 2013
Le projet de plantations de palmiers à huile sur 70 000 ha semble de moins en moins en mesure de se concrétiser. Reportage d'Al Qarra TV.
Carta aberta para deter e reflectir de forma urgente o Programa ProSavana
- UNAC
- 28 May 2013
Os signatárias desta Carta Aberta dirigem-se à chefes de Governo de Moçambique, Brasil e Japão para requerer que mandem tomar todas as medidas necessárias para suspensão imediata de todas as acções e projectos em curso nas savanas tropicais do Corredor de Nacala.
Ethiopia refuses to cooperate with World Bank funding probe
- Bloomberg
- 28 May 2013
Ethiopia’s government said it won’t cooperate with a probe into whether the World Bank violated its own policies by funding a program in which thousands of people were allegedly relocated to make way for agriculture investors.
Gov’t ‘gives away’ US$8.2m to Prairie Volta
- The Scandal
- 28 May 2013
The Government of Ghana in "a double loss" since the 2008 transfer of the assets of the Quality Grain Company to a US company that took over the Aveyime Rice Production Project.
ABP, PFZW to stick with controversial palm oil firm
- IPE
- 28 May 2013
Dutch pension funds say they will remain invested in Wilmar International due to their successful efforts to engage with the controversial palm-oil company accused by many of land grabbing
Changes planned for the law on foreign ownership of agricultural land
- Georgia Today
- 28 May 2013
Amid outcries from local residents against the foreign acquisition of agricultural lands in several Georgian regions, some experts have drafted recommendations to amend the Law of Georgia on the Ownership of Agricultural Land.
Open Letter from Mozambican civil society organisations and movements to the presidents of Mozambique and Brazil and the Prime Minister of Japan
- UNAC et al
- 28 May 2013
Mozambican peasants union and large number of national and international groups call on heads of state of Mozambique, Japan and Brazil to immediately suspend the ProSavana agribusiness project.
Agriculture is on the lips of everyone these days in Romania
- Balkans.com
- 28 May 2013
“Buyers are interested in large surfaces located in a single region with as high a consolidation level as possible, with access to the water supply and irrigation infrastructure"
L’UA souhaite la venue d'investissements étrangers dans les terres agricoles fertiles du Continent
- Infosplusgabon
- 27 May 2013
L’Union africaine est favorable à l’achat des terres agricoles fertiles du continent par des investisseurs étrangers, a déclaré, lundi, Rhoda Peace Tumusine.
Group opposes entry of Taiwan’s agribusiness giant at Apeco
- Business Mirror
- 27 May 2013
Nan Tsan plans to engage in fish processing as its priority undertaking, for which it will lease a seaside area of 1,000 square meters, and is eyeing 10 hectares of land within the ecozone for the cultivation of papaya
UK foreign aid, the final insult
- Daily Mail
- 25 May 2013
DFID documents reveal that, despite denials of funding forced relocations, British cash pays salaries of officials implementing the Ethiopian government's 'villagisation' programme.
'Indonesia is seeing a new corporate colonialism'
- Guardian
- 25 May 2013
Multinational companies have been encouraged to seize and deforest land owned by indigenous people, say human rights groups
El amo de las rosas (y las espinas)
- El País
- 24 May 2013
El empresario indio Ramakrishna Karuturi, que vende 555 millones de tallos al año, es señalado como uno de los grandes acaparadores de tierras de África.