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Deutsche Welle | 07 Oct 2015
Zambia's government has courted foreign investors by offering land and large tax breaks as incentives, but this has led to displacement of local people. The lucky few have been paid peanuts as compensation. |
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VOA | 07 Oct 2015
Rights groups say the government has failed to give compensation and prevent the victims of forced evictions from being dragged into poverty |
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East African | 07 Oct 2015
The government has allocated 60,000 ha of land for investment in large-scale commercial farming for sugar and rice in the Mkulazi area, 60 kilometres from the Dar es Salaam - Morogoro highway. |
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Glencore | 06 Oct 2015
Debt-burdened Glencore has entered early discussions with a number of sovereign wealth funds and commodities traders as it moves to offload the more than 30,000ha of cropping land across NSW, Victoria and South Australia. |
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Worldwatch Institute | 06 Oct 2015
As global agricultural resources shrink or shift, countries are crossing border to obtain new farmlands |
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Filohan’ny SIF | 06 Oct 2015
Platform SIF and Collective TANY call on citizens worldwide to sign a petition to urge the Malagasy authorities to adopt laws which secure farmers and local communities rights on their lands. |
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Aljazeera | 05 Oct 2015
In Liberia, palm oil has set off a dangerous scramble for land |
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WFAL | 04 Oct 2015
World Forum on access to Land and Natural Resources between March 31st and April 2nd, 2016, at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. |
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Financial Review | 02 Oct 2015
Donlinks, one of China's biggest vegetable oil producers, will partner with British Virgin lslands-registered Genius Link Capital, to make an offer for S. Kidman & Co, Australia's largest landholder. |
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Stuff | 02 Oct 2015
The 25 farms of Van Diemen's Land Company in Tasmania are expected to be of interest to multiple trade investors, institutional investors, sovereign funds and also agricultural funds. |
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Medafrica | 02 Oct 2015
Juaboso Agro Processing Company, a joint Ghanaian/American business, has secured 6,000 hectares of land for the cultivation of plantain and the building of a factory to export chips to the United States. |
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Local Action Links | 02 Oct 2015
This paper aims to study the situation of land grabbing and its impacts on small-scale farmers in 5 countries, namely Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. |
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Langbein & Partner | 02 Oct 2015
Film gives an inside look into the world of investors in the international agro-business and shows the consequences for families kicked off the land. Land Grabbing shows how “colonialism 2.0” works. |
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Mongabay | 02 Oct 2015
A day after a judge suspended operations of a palm-oil company suspected of causing a massive fish die-off on a Guatemalan river, three community leaders were abducted by company workers and an outspoken local teacher was murdered. |
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Reuters | 01 Oct 2015
New figures highlight "the catastrophic failure of governments to respect the basic land rights of more than 1 billion people." |
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International Business Times | 29 Sep 2015
Australia’s rural farming sector is witnessing a spurt in Chinese investments, backed by high expectations of the upcoming free trade agreement with China. |
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Front Line Defenders | 29 Sep 2015
The charges brought against the human rights defenders relate to a food security workshop that the they were due to attend in Nairobi, Kenya, in March 2015. |
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Herald | 28 Sep 2015
Rollex, an agriculture division of UK-based Lonrho, has more than 150 farmers under its contract scheme and also runs its own farms. |
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RFI | 31 Aug 2015
Les litiges concernant les terres, dans les zones rurales ou urbaines sont-ils de plus en plus nombreux ? Quels sont les recours pour les citoyens qui s’estiment spoliés ? |
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