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05 Jul 2018
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PNG villagers count huge cost of damage from logging Radio NZ | 03 Jul 2018
Communities in Papua New Guinea's West Pomio District will suffer more than $US73 million worth of damage due to Special Agriculture Business Leases, according to a local advocacy group Act Now.
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Liberia: Another SDI report finds GVL in Sinoe land grab, deforestation FrontPageAfrica | 03 Jul 2018
Report finds that Golden Veroleum Liberia violated the rights of communities to the customary ownership of their lands, violated the Liberian laws and international standards, and even breached its own policies.
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Land dispute settled in Koh Kong Khmer Times | 02 Jul 2018
Each family agreed, with mixed feelings, to accept two hectares of land and $3,000 to end the years-long land dispute between villagers and sugar companies
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UAE-based Al Dahra aquires Agricola Braila, the largest agricultural producer in Romania Business Reveiw | 02 Jul 2018
Investment Fund Al Dahra Holding took over Agricola Braila, the largest agricultural producer in Romania, in a deal estimated at over EUR 230 million euros and involving some 57,000 ha.
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UK tops list of foreign investors in Australian agricultural land Grain Central | 02 Jul 2018
The UK remains the largest foreign owner of Australian farmland, followed by China and the US, according to the Foreign Investment Review Board 2016–17 Annual Report.
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L'Etat ivoirien décide la cession de 30% de ses parts dans Palmafrique Commodafrica | 29 Jun 2018
Les parts de l’entreprise qui possède 3 sites d’exploitations agro-industrielles reparties sur 7 500 ha seront cedées au groupe Financial BC
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Overseas investors pull out of farm purchases after government clampdown Stuff | 29 Jun 2018
The number of foreign buyers pulling out of New Zealand farm purchases has more than doubled since the Government tightened rules for overseas investment.
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Danish Ingleby becomes fourth largest farmland owner in Romania Romania Insider | 29 Jun 2018
Ingleby group is owned by the Swedish billionaire family of Hans Rausing. The group exploited over 100,500 ha of land worldwide, of which 81,500 ha farmland and 7,261 ha forest.
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Ukraine to lease state-owned farmland via online auctions Xinhua | 25 Jun 2018
Besides curbing corruption in the land rental market, the online auctions are expected to fill the state budget and make leasing land more convenient for potential investors.
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Why do Kazakhstanis fear China? China in Central Asia | 23 Aug 2016
The earliest land protests took place in 2003 when Kazakhstan entered into an agreement with China to rent 7,000 hectares of land – a deal that would have employed 3,000 Chinese workers.
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L'homme d'affaires Hubert Fabri condamné pour corruption active L'Echo | 29 jui 2018
Le patron du groupe belge Socfin a été déclaré coupable d’avoir été à la tête d’un "schéma de corruption" bénéficiant à une haute fonctionnaire guinéenne. Les faits éclaboussent jusqu’au Premier ministre guinéen.
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Bordeaux : une dizaine de châteaux et domaines viticoles saisis par la justice Sud Ouest | 29 jui 2018
En France, les enquêteurs de l’Office central pour la répression de la grande délinquance financière ont procédé à la saisie de 10 châteaux et domaines viticoles du Bordelais pour un montant d’environ 28 millions d’euros.
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« Accaparement des terres » : le CGAAER propose sa définition Agrapresse | 29 jui 2018
Le concept d'« accaparement des terres », largement employé depuis une dizaine d’années, serait « mal défini », recouvrant plusieurs définitions, selon un récent rapport du gouvernement français.
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Ramon, Mina, Jean-Marie, Francky… Ils ont perdu leurs terres et leurs proches à cause de la déforestation Novethic | 29 jui 2018
Les États signataires des Déclarations d’Amsterdam ont accordé 5 minutes aux acteurs de la société civile pour témoigner des conséquences directes de la déforestation
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Congo-Brazzaville: une nouvelle loi foncière entre en vigueur RFI | 28 jui 2018
La loi interdit strictement l'acquisition des terres rurales et coutumières aux personnes étrangères établies au Congo.
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