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Ghosts in the machine The Gecko Project | 18 Apr 2018
Second installment of Indonesia for Sale, an in-depth series of articles on the corruption behind Indonesia’s deforestation and land rights crisis. Ghosts in the machine exposing land deals behind the downfall of Indonesia’s top judge.
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Audio: Impacts of agriculture on Brazil’s Cerrado region Mongabay | 18 Apr 2018
Mongabay journalists report on the impacts of the rapid expansion of agribusiness on the region’s environment and people.
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Farm group opposes CAFOs, foreign-owned farmland News Tribune | 18 Apr 2018
Supporters of family farming who oppose the rise of big-business agricultural practices in Missouri gathered to lobby legislators against concentrated animal feeding operations and foreign ownership of Missouri farmland
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Japan's Nippon Life makes a US$92.5 million offshore farmland investment GAI | 17 Apr 2018
Tokyo-based Nippon Life Insurance Company makes its first investment in a farmland investment fund through a US$92.5 million investment in an overseas farmland investment fund managed by Hancock Natural Resources Group
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Campaign launch: Celebrating and defending customary land ActNow | 17 Apr 2018
ACT NOW! launches a new multi-media campaign 'Celebrating and Defending Customary Land’-- the most valuable and important asset available to most Papua New Guineans.
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How much land is in foreign hands? Times of Zambia | 16 Apr 2018
The Zambia Land Alliance has challenged government to make public how much land is currently in the hands of foreigners.
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Terra Firma seeks premium for 'Project Ribeye' Australian farm sale Reuters | 13 Apr 2018
With first round bids due imminently, the high expectations could leave foreign bidders in the box seat, testing the government’s appetite for foreign ownership of sensitive assets less than two years after it rejected China-led bids for a major energy grid and agricultural company.
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Malian farmers denounce land grabbing Ecofin | 12 Apr 2018
A farmers' rights organization reports on a growing trend of land grabbing, and calls for a fast enforcement of the 2017 land law whose decrees were issued last month.
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He testified against Bolloré: “Of course I’m worried” TéléObs | 05 Apr 2018
Emmanuel Elong, the farmer who came from Cameroon specifically for the lawsuit filed by the Bolloré group against France 2, tells of the psychological pressure you are under when you confront a major group in Africa.
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Cambodian farmers sue Thai sugar group Mitr Phol over alleged land grab Reuters | 02 Apr 2018
Farmers from Cambodia have filed a lawsuit in a Thai civil court against Asia’s largest sugar producer, accusing it of rights abuses after it allegedly kicked farmers off their land.
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Foreign citizens will not have right to own agricultural land in Armenia ARKA | 16 Jan 2018
A set of changes to Armenia’s Land Code, passed today by the parliament in the second and final reading, deprives foreign citizens of the right to own agricultural land in the country.
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Infographic: Economic land concession sugarcane plantation and sugar industry, Oddar Meanchey Province, Cambodia The Mekong Butterfly | 21 Sep 2017
Around 2006, Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation., Ltd. One of major sugarcane and sugar companies in Thailand began to expand their production base to neighboring countries. This infograhpic solely looks at the case of sugarcane plantation investment in Oddar Meanchey, Cambodia.
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Les citoyens étrangers n’auront pas le droit de posséder des terres agricoles en Arménie Armenews | 17 avr 2018
Un ensemble de modifications apportées au Code foncier de l’Arménie, adopté par le Parlement en deuxième et dernière lecture, prive les citoyens étrangers du droit de posséder des terres agricoles dans le pays.
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Ibrahim Diori s’exprime sur le projet d’achat de 120 000 hectares de terres par la société saoudienne Al Horaish à Diffa Niamey et les 2 jours | 14 fev 2017
Cela fait des mois que la société civile nigérienne crie haro contre un projet concernant l’achat de terres d’une superficie de 120 000 hectares pour une durée de 99 ans par la société saoudienne Al Horaish for Trading & Industry.
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Projet saoudien d'accaparement des terres à Diffa : Enfin, un petit éclairage du Premier Ministre Brigi Raffini Actu Niger | 12 fev 2017
En réaction à un SMS, le Premier ministre du Niger apporte un éclairage sur le sort réservé par le gouvernement au projet Al Horaish
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Argentina: La venta de Sancor decreta el fin de ciclo en la lechería La capital | 15 abr 2018
Los asociados de Sancor aprobaron el jueves por unanimidad en una asamblea extraordinaria, la oferta de inversión y asociación presentada por Adecoagro y abrieron la puerta para que la segunda industria láctea del país deje de ser una cooperativa y el 90% de su capital accionario pase a manos privadas.
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Uruguay: Firma peruana compra tierras para producir cítricos El País | 15 abr 2018
La empresa peruana Camposol compró 1.000 hectáreas para cultivos de cítricos en el departamento de Salto
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No to ProSAVANA Letter to Japan's Foreign Minister （河野太郎 外務大臣宛レター和訳） No to ProSAVANA Letter to Japan's Foreign Minister | 14 Apr 2018
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