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farmlandgrab.org WEEKLY 18 May 2016
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Reuters | 18 May 2016
Vietnamese, Thai firms to pour $4 bln into Russian dairy production

State-backed Russia Direct Investment Fund announced plans on Wednesday to sign an agreement with Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Group on joint investments in the construction of a $1 billion milk and dairy complex in the Ryazan region of Russia.

GRAIN | 18 May 2016
Vidéo : Les femmes ouest africaines défendent l'huile de palme traditionnelle

Les paysannes en Afrique de l’Ouest travaillent pour protéger la production traditionnelle d’huile de palme face aux accaparements de terres et à l'impact destructeur des plantations industrielles de palmiers à huile.

GRAIN | 18 May 2016
Video: West African women defend traditional palm oil

New video shows how rural women in West Africa are working to protect traditional palm oil production in the face of land grabbing by industrial oil palm plantations.

Fiji Times | 18 May 2016
Chinese investors look into agriculture potential

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Qingdao in China is looking into Fiji's agriculture sector as a potential area of investment.

Vientiane Times | 18 May 2016
Saravan approves concession for custard apple plantation

Saravan provincial authorities in Laos approve a 200 ha land concession to a Korean company which will grow custard apple and moringa for export

Reuters | 17 May 2016
Thomson Reuters Foundation launches Place to put land and property rights on global news agenda

Thomson Reuters Foundation today launched Place (Property, Land, Access, Connections, Empowerment), an innovative platform to boost coverage of land and property rights, one of the most under-reported issues worldwide.

AFR | 16 May 2016
Australia's $1 billion beef boom funded by foreign investment and super

Australia's cattle station sector is set to reach more than $1 billion-worth of deals in less than a year, with the two biggest sources of investment being the controversial areas of foreign investment and superannuation.

Agrimoney | 16 May 2016
Dry weather forces BrasilAgro to slash corn sowings

Land prices are up across Brazil, with prices in the Northeast up 7.5% over the past 12 month, BrasilAgro said.

China File | 16 May 2016
Why Chinese agriculture engagement in Africa is not what it seems

Based on new research in four African countries, Professor Ian Scoones says far from being on a land-grabbing spree in Africa, Chinese immigrant farmers and the deployment of Chinese agricultural technology and training programmes are having a positive impact.

| 16 May 2016
#NoLandNoLife | Indonesia: PANAP conveys solidarity with Kampung Dadap’s struggle for land and livelihood

We convey our firm solidarity with the people of Kampung Dadap in their struggle against the “PT Tangerang International City” (TIC) – a government backed massive reclamation project in Kampung Dadap, Tangerang Regency in Indonesia, and express our serious concern on the repression reportedly being committed against them.

The Conversation | 13 May 2016
Next steps to strengthen global land governance

Many see the voluntary guidelines as an important opportunity to address wider issues of land inequality, historical dispossession and agrarian change, rather than simply as a route to “responsible investment”

Mongabay | 13 May 2016
United Cacao responds to bid to remove company from London Stock Exchange

The company defends its Peruvian plantations amid uproar over alleged environmental and social impacts.

Namibian | 13 May 2016
Namibia: Russian landlord in Panama Papers

Russian billionaire Rashid Sardarov, who bought large tracts of land in Namibia, is among the long−serving clients of Mossack Fonseca, a disgraced law firm known for aiding the rich to hide their wealth in tax havens

Reuters | 12 May 2016
Kazakh government invites opponents to discuss land reform

Kazakhstan's government, facing a wave of unrest over farmland privatisation plans, invited some opponents of the reform to join a commission set up on Thursday to review it.

Guardian | 12 May 2016
Companies run by ex-cricketer Phil Edmonds 'paid bribes to officials'

Companies co-founded and run by Phil Edmonds, founder of leading African farmland investor Agriterra, paid “bribes” to African officials and have bought assets owned by secretive offshore structures, a campaign group has claimed.

Australian | 06 May 2016
Dashang takes premium stake in prime Wagyu beef herd

Chinese retailing giant the ­Dashang Group has snapped up one of Australia’s oldest herds of Wagyu cattle and a second highly productive farm in the prestigious upper Hunter Valley.

Post | 25 Apr 2016
Agriterra chairman Phil Edmonds steps down

Agriterra, an Africa focussed agricultural company, announces that Phil Edmonds has stepped down as chairman of the company.

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Commodafrica | 17 mai 2016
La Fondation Thomson Reuters lance la première plateforme d'information mondiale sur les droits fonciers

La Fondation Thomson Reuters, en collaboration avec Omidyar Network, a lancé hier PLACE, une plateforme pour couvrir les droits fonciers

Mondafrique | 16 mai 2016
Le réchauffement climatique menace la sécurité alimentaire du Mali

le Mali est fragilisé par les conséquences ravageuses du changement climatique et de l'accaparement des terres. Mondafrique publie le témoignage d'Ousmane Barké Diallo, éleveur malien.

L'Aurore | 16 mai 2016
Mali : Front social : La révolte de la Cstm

Les syndicats affiliés à la Cstm ont investi la rue de Bamako pour condamner l’immobilisme du gouvernement face aux problèmes des masses laborieuses, y compris l’accaparement des terres et l’expropriation des paysans

SudRadio | 16 mai 2016
Interdire l'achat de terres agricoles par des multinationales ?

Entretien avec Guillaume Darrouy du Centre National des Jeunes Agriculteurs (France)

Jeune Afrique | 13 mai 2016
À São Tomé, Agripalma marche sur des œufs

Dans le sud-ouest de l’île de São Tomé, la co-entreprise entre l’État santoméen et le groupe luxembourgeois Socfin ressuscite la culture du palmier à l’huile.

Confédération Paysanne (Indre) | 13 mai 2016
France : Lettre ouverte au Ministère de lAgriculture

Lettre ouverte de la la Confédération paysanne 36 concernant l'acquisition de plus de 1 700 ha de terres agricoles dans l'Indre par des entrepreneurs chinois

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Las 2 Orillas | 13 may 2016
Nuevas maniobras de poderosos acumuladores de baldíos

El exrepresentante Wilson Arias denuncia una nueva modalidad de empresas que se aprovechan de tierras campesinas.

Rebelión | 05 may 2016
Colombia: El papel de las Zidres en la transformación del despojo en “agronegocio”

La ley Zidres marca la pauta para la re-valorización especulativa de la tierra ya inserta en la frontera agrícola induciendo igualmente mecanismos de coacción sobre las comunidades negras, indígenas y las reservas campesinas para que integren sus territorios al agronegocio.

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