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Guardian | 21 Oct 2015
A stalled scheme to make Tanzania east Africa’s premier sugar producer has polarised opinion about using large-scale agriculture to achieve food security |
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Canadian Press | 21 Oct 2015
Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart has introduced amendments to Saskatchewan’s farm security legislation that will make pension plans and their administrators ineligible from owning farmland in the province. |
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Le Soleil | 21 Oct 2015
L’Association des femmes rurales de la commune de Fandène a réuni à Fandène productrices, élus locaux et autres acteurs du développement pour échanger sur la problématique de l’accaparement des terres. |
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ASO | 21 Oct 2015
The three activists, who face terrorism charges for attempting to attend a workshop on food security, face a court hearing in Addis Ababa on October 22. |
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Visionscarto | 21 Oct 2015
« Des terres et des territoires » : Visionscarto rend régulièrement compte de ce récit cartographique, qui prend peu à peu forme sous le pinceau d’Agnès Stienne. Notre ambition est de le faire vivre sous la forme d’une exposition itinérante traduite en plusieurs langues, ainsi que d’un web-documentaire. Son auteure lance ici un appel à soutien et participation. |
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Foreign Policy | 20 Oct 2015
Are foreign investors really snatching up as much of Africa as they can? It’s not that simple, Foreign Policy reports. |
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Reuters | 20 Oct 2015
Large purchases of farmland can at times be cloaked in secrecy, but a new online database is aiming to shed light on such deals globally by publishing contracts between governments and investors |
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UNIDO | 20 Oct 2015
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization is helping to build staple crop processing zones Nigeria, which 'can become a model for leveraging technical assistance and investments with development banks'. |
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P&I | 19 Oct 2015
Pension fund manager TIAA-CREF's farmland assets grew by 56% to $7.8 billion in committed assets. |
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WRM | 16 Oct 2015
The oil palm industry’s rapid growth in West Papua, Indonesia is having serious adverse effects on its indigenous population. |
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WRM | 16 Oct 2015
WRM's September bulletin focuses on denouncing oil palm plantations’ expansion and some of its consequences for forest dependent peoples and their territories. |
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PAN AP | 16 Oct 2015
Marks the World Food Day, Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) exposing real situation facing farmers and other small food producers that resist against land and resource grabbing and struggle for genuine agrarian reform as the only way out of chronic poverty and hunger. |
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Alberta Farmer | 15 Oct 2015
One of America’s largest farm management and real estate brokerages has expanded into the Canadian Prairies — starting with Alberta. |
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WRM | 15 Oct 2015
Interview with Jean-François Mombia on the impacts of the oil palm plantations of the Canadian company, Feronia. |
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PAN AP | 15 Oct 2015
As the world marks the International Rural Women's Day, simultaneous activities organised by PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) and rural women's groups from various countries to highlight the call for rural women to rise up and assert their rights to land and resources.
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APC | 15 Oct 2015
Governments in Asia implements Public and Private Partnership (PPP) projects which worsened landlessness and directly impacts Asian agriculture. Statement by APC on the occasion of the International Rural Women’s Day. |
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Deal Street Asia | 14 Oct 2015
China private equity firm AFC Investments Ltd is planning to allocate between $10 million and $20 million for investment in start-ups as well as medium and large agro-related Malaysian companies, including in food processing and farming. |
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