Cargill bought a large area of farming land in Colombia many times bigger than the legal limit by setting up dozens of "shell companies", violating the spirit of agrarian reform laws, Oxfam said in a report released.
En privé, les officiels éthiopiens reconnaissent l'échec de leur politique d'agriculture commerciale basée sur la location à bas prix d'immenses portions de terres à des firmes étrangères.
- Africa Intelligence
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27 September 2013
Del 9 al 11 de octubre de 2013 se llevará a cabo en la Universidad Externado de Colombia un seminario internacional sobre concentración y acaparamiento de tierras.
- Grupo Semillas
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26 September 2013
Workers of the troubled Karuturi farms in Kenya went on strike to demand their two months salaries. The incident came two days after four workers tried to commit suicide outside the farm's gates in protest.
President Jakaya Kikwete refutes claims that his government is a notorious grabber of land from poor subsistence farmers in rural areas in an address at Guelph University, Canada.
- Tanzania Daily News
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26 September 2013
As the world’s population swells beyond seven billion and emerging markets’ appetite for food grows, Canadian institutions are getting increasingly hungry for agribusiness and farmland acquisitions abroad.
- Financial Post
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26 September 2013
El principal accionista de Indupalma es una sucursal en Colombia de la empresa Palmicultora Palmas de Oro, compañía domiciliada en Panamá, un reconocido paraíso fiscal.
The Indonesian government may be in the market for an even larger slice of Australian land than the 1.5 million hectares it has proposed.
- The Examiner
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25 September 2013
US, Canadian, Arabian and Swiss interests are buying up multiple properties in around Stockinbingal, and the handful of Australian family farms that remain want the federal government to intervene.
- Canberra Times
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25 September 2013
The Asian Development Bank plans to pick up direct equity stakes in food and agri-business enterprises in the region next year, a senior official said.
- Dow Jones
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25 September 2013
A paramilitary unit of the Liberia National Police was deployed into the area after residents attempted to halt the survey.
Indigenous communities have claims to nearly one third of all land granted in commercial land concessions in 12 countries analyzed by a new report.
- Mongabay
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24 September 2013
Ukraine's government-controlled agricultural firm KSG Agro has denied recent Chinese media reports on an alleged agreement that would have seen China leasing 3 million hectares of Ukrainian farmland for the next 50 years.
- Radio Free Europe
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24 September 2013
AgroGeneration annonce que les accords définitifs sur les modalités financières et juridiques de son rapprochement avec Harmelia ont été finalisés et signés
- Challenges
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24 September 2013
Au moins un tiers des concessions agricoles cédées aux investisseurs étrangers dans le monde empiètent sur les terres de communautés locales ou autochtones, selon une étude du cabinet de consultants Munden Project.
- La Croix
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23 September 2013