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Reuters | 18 Jan 2017
FAO expert says it would be wrong to conclude that investors’ interest in agriculture has vanished and developing countries and donors should do more to ensure responsible investment and confront domestic “land grabbers". |
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The Conversation | 17 Jan 2017
Land deals are implemented – and often initiated – by sub-national states which are in competition with each other to win major investments. |
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Farm Ireland | 17 Jan 2017
Hundreds of farms in Ireland face repossession this year as so-called vulture funds swoop on indebted properties, agri-finance experts have warned. |
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TRF | 16 Jan 2017
Women in Senegal are fighting back against land grabbing, from young coders designing a mobile app to help women buy land to civil society groups rallying female villagers to stand up to multinationals |
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Financial Mail | 16 Jan 2017
The stage for an acquisition of Crookes could already be set thanks to the involvement of African agriculture-focused UK private equity firm SilverStreet Capital as the key shareholder through its Silverlands (SA) Plantations investment vehicle. |
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Huffington Post | 16 Jan 2017
Global firms and local elites are taking land from farmers, which pushes them to cities, where jobs are few. |
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Farm Weekly | 16 Jan 2017
Canadian investors - particularly pension funds - have led the way in changing Australian city money attitudes to agriculture. |
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Bloemisterij | 13 Jan 2017
While Dutch ag investors get priority access to 1500 ha near Hawassa, their embassy is helping the Ethiopian government start a conversation with its discontented population. |
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WFAL | 13 Jan 2017
Read the synthesis of the thematic sessions which took place on the 31st March, 1st and 2 April 2016 in Valencia, Spain, during the global forum of the World Forum on Access to Land and Natural Resources. |
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Phnom Penh Post | 13 Jan 2017
China sugarcane company Rui Feng continued its campaign to clear disputed land in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia yesterday, even after a video of its employees seemingly trying to beat villagers surfaced online earlier this week. |
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Cambodia Daily | 12 Jan 2017
Some 100 farmers who have spent the past 11 days sleeping on land to guard it from bulldozers in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia are exhausted by empty promises from the government to solve their problem. |
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Place | 12 Jan 2017
In India, of the almost 5,000 hectares (12,355 acres) of land acquired for SEZs in the last five years, only 362 hectares have been used for their intended purpose, according to SEZ Farmers' Protection Welfare Association despite farmers have been devastated by the loss of their land. |
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Phnom Penh Post | 12 Jan 2017
Ethnic Kuoy villagers in Preah Vihear, Cambodia filed a complaint against Chinese sugar company Rui Feng on Tuesday after a long-simmering land dispute almost erupted into violence last week. |
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Accountability Counsel | 12 Jan 2017
A collective representing hundreds of Haitian farmers, filed a complaint to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) about its role in a case of land grabbing. |
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SOCFIN | 09 Jan 2017
In its Zero Deforestation Commitment published today, SOCFIN in Cambodia commits to manage and develop its rubber plantations in Mondulkiri while protecting the environment, respecting local communities and providing full transparency. |
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Mongabay | 04 Jan 2017
Indonesia central government has recognized the rights of nine indigenous communities to the forests. That movement still has long way to go, the nine “customary forests” encompass a total of 13,100 hectares. By comparison, Indonesia’s nine biggest oil palm firms in 2013 had planted nearly 2 million hectares. |
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Cambodia Daily | 21 Dec 2016
About 100 farmers from Koh Kong province traveled to Phnom Penh to press government officials for a solution to their long-running land disputes with a trio of sugarcane plantations they accuse of stealing their land. |
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