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farmlandgrab.org WEEKLY 28 Oct 2015
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Sign the petition to denounce the arrest of Ethiopian food & land activists and help support their families.
 
PR Web | 28 Oct 2015
Bamboo Finance and Louis Dreyfus Holding launch impact investment fund NISABA, focusing on agribusiness in sub-Saharan Africa

Bamboo Finance and Louis Dreyfus Holding are partnering to launch an impact investment fund focusing on the agribusiness sector in Sub-Saharan Africa.

teleSUR | 27 Oct 2015
Paraguay's indigenous fight for survival, against land grabs

Government inaction in the face of corporate lands grabs is threatening the survival of local Indigenous communities.

Financial Review | 27 Oct 2015
Foreign investors needed to expand agribusiness

PriceWaterhouse Coopers' China desk leader says clients he advises on food and agriculture deals are mostly property developers and building materials companies looking to shift their capital base abroad, given the headwinds in the Chinese construction sector.

ABC | 23 Oct 2015
Mackay Sugar gains access to new farmland after investment firm acquires cattle property

Racecourse Projects, owned by Cargill's Black River Asset Management and Mackay Sugar, has purcahsed a 3,244 hectare cattle property in North Queensland.

AfDb | 23 Oct 2015
African Development Bank : Agricultural transformation begins to take shape in Africa

AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina proposed the creation of the agricultural corridors to attract investments into the rural areas of Africa in his address to the opening session of the 'Feeding Africa ' conference in Dakar

REDD Monitor | 22 Oct 2015
Land grabs: LifeMosaic’s second video in the series Territories of Life

A new video by LifeMosaic, part of the series “Territories of Life“, looks at the impacts of the enormous land grab affecting indigenous peoples around the world.

Agrimoney | 22 Oct 2015
Pension funds barred from Saskatchewan land purchases

The government of Saskatchewan has tightened its already stringent land ownership rules, prohibiting out pension funds and any business with any overseas-issued debt on its books, from owning land.

MST | 22 Oct 2015
Brazil: Landless peasants occupy area in São Lourenço do Sul

400 landless families occupied the Sol Agricola Farm, owned by Chongqing Grain Group and located in the municipality of São Lourenço do Sul, in the southern region of Rio Grande do Sul state.

AFJN | 05 Oct 2015
Land grab prevention campaign in Volta Region, Ghana

AFJN’s Ghana volunteer Task Force on Land Grab Prevention reached out to the Regional Association of Queen Mothers (female chiefs) in Ghana’s Volta Region for the purpose of training its members on the issue of land grabs.

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Financial Afrik | 24 oct 2015
Côte d’Ivoire : KKO International lève 6,5 millions d’euros pour ses 3 000 ha de cacao

La holding belge s’était lancée sur le marché boursier d’Alternex Paris et Bruxelles pour financer son projet de création d’une exploitation industrielle de 3 000 hectares de cacao en Côte d’Ivoire.

Radio Canada | 23 oct 2015
Propriété des terres agricoles : de nouvelles règles à venir en Saskatchewan

Des changements sont à prévoir dans les lois régissant la propriété des terres agricoles en Saskatchewan à l'ouest du Canada

Foreign Policy | 20 oct 2015
Le mythe de l’accaparement des terres africaines

L’Afrique est-elle vraiment en train de passer aux mains des investisseurs étrangers ? Les choses ne sont pas si simples, relate Foreign Policy.

Hub Rural | 08 oct 2015
Mali : adoption par le Conseil des Ministres du projet de loi sur le foncier agricole

Au Mali, le Conseil des Ministres tenu le 7 octobre 2015 a adopté un projet de loi sur le foncier agricole.

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CESE, AGTER, CERAI | Brussels | 16 Nov 2015
Land grabbing and land concentration in Europe

http://www.arc2020.eu/events/land-grabbing-and-land-concentration-in-europe/

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