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18 Apr 2019
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Saudi-based SAK plans $100 mln Turkey investments despite tense ties Reuters | 17 Apr 2019
Saudi Arabia-based SAK Consultants is looking into investing in land or forming a partnership with landowners to export vegetables and meat to Saudi Arabia.
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Georgia's ban on foreign landowners leaves farmers in limbo Reuters | 17 Apr 2019
A ban on foreigners owning farmland introduced last year in Georgia's new constitution has made it more difficult for farmers to borrow because the country's mostly foreign-owned banks will no longer accept farmland as collateral.
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OIO changes could see more advertising of farmland sales Radio NZ | 17 Apr 2019
Farmers in New Zealand wanting to sell their land to sell to a foreign buyer might have to advertise their properties more thoroughly than they do now, according to new proposals from the government.
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The Declaration on Peasants’ Rights should become a political tool for Agrarian Reform and Social Justice LVC | 17 Apr 2019
Member organisations of La Via Campesina in Africa, America, Europe, and Asia are confronted by changes in soil use and by landgrabbbing on a massive and alarming scale that is in direct contradiction with popular agrarian reform.
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Zambian gov't says partnering with China to boost agricultural production Xinhua | 16 Apr 2019
Minister of Agriculture Michael Katambo says that Zambia is partnering with foreign investors, especially the Chinese in the farming industry to improve national food production.
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World Bank dispossessing rural poor IPS | 16 Apr 2019
By scoring countries in terms of ease of accessing land for agribusiness, the World Bank's new EBA land indicator seeks to accelerate land privatization and to facilitate corporate access to land in developing countries.
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UAE companies one of the biggest landowners in Serbia Serbian Monitor | 15 Apr 2019
Elite Agro LLC, registered in Abu Dhabi, recently acquired the 100% ownership in Al Rawafed Holding, thus also becoming the owner of 12,000 hectares of arable land in Serbia and one of the largest landowners in the country.
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Successive land attacks stoke fear in Brazil's Amazon Al Jazeera | 12 Apr 2019
At least six people have been killed in a series of deadly Amazon land conflicts in Brazil, stoking fears of rising violence in the region under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.
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Top Abraaj executives arrested on US fraud charges Reuters | 11 Apr 2019
Founder and CEO of the firm that was active in the rush to buy global farmland on the heels of the 2008 financial crisis has been arrested for defrauding investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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UK: CSOs call for mandatory human rights due diligence law to make multinationals accountable for abuses Business and Human Rights Resource Centre | 10 Apr 2019
Civil society organisations launching a new campaign calling British government for an effective law to require companies and investors to take action to prevent human rights abuses, worker exploitation and environmental harm in their global operations, activities, products, services, investments and supply chains.
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Agriculture en RDC : un collectif d’associations appelle à soutenir les familles plutôt que les industriels AFP | 17 avr 2019
Les militants congolais ont interpellé la Banque mondiale et la Banque africaine de développement pour que « cesse l’accaparement des terres ».
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Affaire des terres du Fouta : La Cour suprême annule l'octroi de 10.000 hectares à Addoha Dakartactu | 16 avr 2019
La Cour suprême du Sénégal a annulé jeudi dernier l'octroi de 10.000 hectares au groupe Addoha du Maroc. Si Macky Sall avait ordonné le "blocage temporaire" de cette attribution, la Cour suprême, elle, a tout cassé.
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L’Ong Muyissi environnement sillonne les villages de la Ngounié impactés par Olam Gabon Initiatives | 13 avr 2019
Dans le cadre d'une campagne d’information sur les violences faites aux femmes riveraines des plantations de palmiers à huile, l’Ong Muyissi Environnement organise une tournée dans des villages gabonnais impactés par la multinationale Olam
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Nouvelle forme de colonisation et forte dépendance économique Collectif TANY | 13 avr 2019
Au lieu de destiner les terres malgaches à être occupées et exploitées par des Etats, entreprises et individus étrangers venant de pays plus riches, les dirigeants malagasy devraient procéder à l’organisation d’un meilleur accès des Malagasy à la terre dans toutes les régions
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Procès en diffamation : Vincent Bolloré saisit la Cour de cassation contre "Complément d'enquête" et France 2 Ozap | 12 avr 2019
France Télévisions a remporté son quatrième procès face à Vincent Bolloré, mais le chef d'entreprise a décidé de saisir la Cour de cassation
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Soudan: comment un engrenage économique a provoqué la chute d'Omar el-Béchir RFI | 11 avr 2019
À l'origine des manifs qui ont amené à la chute du reǵime : la hausse du prix du pain, multiplié par trois. Pourtant, le Soudan exporte des produits agricoles vers les pays du Golfe, qui ont pris contrôle de plus d'un million d'hectares de ses terres pour leur propres besoins alimentaires.
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« Nous avons aussi droit à la vie » Synaparcam | 03 avr 2019
Requête et revendications des femmes vivant autour et à l'intérieur des plantations de palmiers à huile et d'hévéa de la filiale du groupe Socfin/Bolloré (Socapalm) au Cameroun
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