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Ukraine extends ban on farmland sales by three years to 2016
- Bloomberg
- 21 November 2012
Ukraine’s parliament extended a ban on sales of farmland by three years to January 2016, giving time to prepare related legislation.
Colombia seeking to regulate foreign investment in agriculture
- Colombia Reports
- 21 November 2012
A bill presented before Colombia's congress on Tuesday seeks to increase regulation of foreign investment in Colombia's land and agriculture.
Take action to stop palm oil plantations from destroying Africa's ancient rainforests and local livelihoods in Cameroon
- Oakland Institute
- 21 November 2012
Send a message to Herakles Farms and All for Africa demanding they stop destroying tropical rainforest and local livelihoods and ask the Government of Cameroon to listen to the voices of the Cameroonian people.
A brief introduction to Voluntary Guidelines on land tenure, fisheries and forests
- PAN AP
- 21 November 2012
After almost three years of negotiations that involved governments, civil society organisations (CSOs) and other groups, the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security was officially endorsed on 11 May 2012 by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Sucre : L’Australie loue ses terres
- Commodesk
- 20 November 2012
Les autorités d’Australie de l’Ouest vont signer le 20 novembre un bail de 50 ans avec une société immobilière de Shanghai, chargée de développer 15.200 hectares de terres agricoles.
Silas Siakor: landgrabbing in Liberia
- EJOLT
- 20 November 2012
The government allocated some 350.000 hectares to Sime Darby, a Malaysian multinational. But people only came to know about this deal when the company showed up to take their land.
Ministère de l’Agriculture : 2 174 hectares de terres cultivables seront mis en valeur à Touraba
- Maliactu
- 19 November 2012
Le gouvernement de la République du Mali a bien voulu mettre à la disposition de l’UEMOA, sous forme de bail emphytéotique, 11 288 hectares de terres dont 2 174 ha sur le site de Touraba.
Kaapattu maa
- Kepa
- 19 November 2012
Report in Finnish on the global landgrab, published by Kepa
Analysis: Foreign investors in Australian farms; rash or prescient?
- Reuters
- 19 November 2012
For all the willing buyers seeking tracts of Australian farm land, local investors are not among them. They wonder what all the fuss is about.
Continúa debate sobre extranjerización de tierras
- Diario del Huila
- 19 November 2012
Por iniciativa del senador Jorge Enrique Robledo, del Polo Democrático Alternativo, la Comisión Quinta del Senado adelantará hoy un nuevo debate al proyecto de ley que busca poner límites al acceso a la propiedad de la tierra en Colombia por parte de personas naturales o jurídicas extranjeras.
Obama dénonce les violations des droits de l'Homme au Cambodge
- AFP
- 19 November 2012
Avant l'arrivée de M. Obama à Phnom Penh, des Cambodgiens avaient organisé des manifestations pour attirer son attention sur les expulsions forcées liées à des différends en matière de propriété foncière, un problème de premier plan au Cambodge.
Profits lure investors to farmland In Arkansas
- Arkansas Business
- 19 November 2012
Continued economic uncertainties are prompting a back-to-the-land movement among investors. And a favored choice of land is farmland.
Touraba : futur grenier agricole de l’Uemoa ?
- Journal du Mali
- 18 November 2012
2174 ha. C’est la superficie du casier hydraulique de Touraba en zone Office du Niger. Un chantier de l’Uemoa qui vise à créer un pôle agricole sous régional au Mali… Visite guidée.
Oil palm firm, group clash over land grab
- All Voices
- 18 November 2012
Oil palm giant, Wilmar Nigeria Limited, and the Rainforest Resource and Development Centre (RRDC), an environmental rights group, are currently at logger heads over a massive land grab in a rural community in Cross River State, Southern Nigeria.
African pension funds: The missing link to African development?
- Huffington Post
- 17 November 2012
Africa is regarded as the New Eldorado, and is attracting many foreign based private or public investment companies, sovereign wealth funds and even pension funds gradually. Sadly, while foreigners continue to play a major role in growth investments, African pension funds' contributions to this growth are dismal.