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Cambodia Daily | 22 Jun 2016
Villagers representing more than 1,000 families that accuse sugarcane plantations around the country of stealing their land gathered in Phnom Penh on Tuesday to once again call on the government to help. |
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Reuters | 22 Jun 2016
In Cambodia, more than 15,000 people have been forcibly evicted to make way for sugar cane plantations. |
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New Daily | 22 Jun 2016
A new poll by the Lowy Institute found 87 per cent of respondents opposed allowing foreign companies to buy Australian agricultural land — six percentage points higher than a similar survey four years ago. |
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MANA | 22 Jun 2016
Malawi government tells Chinese investors it is halfway through a process to identify 10,000 estates lying idle that can be opened up for commercial farming. |
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Agrimoney | 22 Jun 2016
"Money is still being pumped into the sector almost regardless of geography," says director of Primer International. |
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Xinhua | 21 Jun 2016
Australia has granted a three-year extension for a Chinese company to reduce its 80 percent stake in Australian cotton farm Cubbie Station after it indicated it could not meet the October 2015 deadline. |
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Reuters | 21 Jun 2016
Farmers on Bugula Island, the second largest in Lake Victoria, are now locked in a legal battle with Bidco, which says it has not been involved in any land transactions. |
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ICIJ | 21 Jun 2016
The World Bank’s board has granted a massive agribusiness project in East Africa a waiver that exempts it from following the bank’s Indigenous Peoples Policy—sparking fears that the development lender is making an end run to resurrect a policy that it abandoned in public. |
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UNIDO | 21 Jun 2016
"To attract more private sector investments, ACP countries need to adapt their policies and reinforce the capacity of their agribusinesses." |
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TeleSur | 21 Jun 2016
Land speculation stimulates the expansion of plantations across Brazil, increasing land conflicts and displacement of campesino and Indigenous communities. |
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ICIJ | 20 Jun 2016
The World Bank’s board has granted an East African agribusiness project called SAGCOT a waiver that exempts it from following the bank’s Indigenous Peoples Policy — sparking fears among human rights advocates that the development lender is setting a precedent that weakens protections for indigenous peoples. |
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Business Standard | 18 Jun 2016
India’s plan to lease farm land in Mozambique, Tanzania and Malawi to grow pulses for domestic consumers is not the first such project |
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Times of India | 17 Jun 2016
The government of India is looking at the possibility of leasing land in Mozambique to grow pulses. |
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SFDI et al | 16 Jun 2016
Civil Society Organisations in Sierra Leone wish to let the public understand that a solution to the persistent conflict in Malen Chiefdom is needed. |
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FIAN Belgium | 16 Jun 2016
Civil society organizations demand to stop land grabbing by the agro-industrial company Socfin and to protect the human rights of the communities. |
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The Diplomat | 15 Jun 2016
While there is near consensus that foreigners should not have the right to own farmland in Kazakhstan, opinions are deeply divided on the issue of granting leases to foreigners. |
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CommonDreams | 15 Jun 2016
"The results are a strong message that the people don't want corporate farming in North Dakota." |
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NY Times | 12 Jun 2016
Starting in 1932, North Dakota law barred nonfamily corporations from owning farmland or operating farms. But that changed in March of last year when the state Legislature passed a bill that would relax the corporate farming ban and Gov. Jack Dalrymple signed it into law. |
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Basta! | 04 Jun 2016
For nearly three hours on the morning of 3 June, around a hundred protesters peacefully blockaded the entrances to the headquarters of Bolloré, one of France's most powerful companies. |
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Business World | 30 May 2016
The Export and Import (EXIM) Bank of India provided $35 million towards the establishment of the $36.5 million Komenda Sugar Factory project, which includes the development of 3,000 hectares of irrigable land. |
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Ghana Web | 28 May 2016
USAID is helping Ghana introduce guidelines for large-scale land transactions and address the dip in foreign direct investment that has arisen due to controversial land deals |
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Não ao ProSavana | 07 May 2016
Peasants from more than 19 districts affected by the ProSavana programme and other organisations reiterate their rejection of the ProSavana programme, as it has been advancing against their expressed will for the last four years. |
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Awoko | 03 May 2016
The private farming company, Sewa Farm, will start rice farming between June and July this year in Turma Bum in Bonthe district on an initial 25,000 hectares. |
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Maria Heubuch | 30 Nov 2015
Study shows that the concentration of agricultural land in Europe constitutes a major threat to sustainable small- and medium-scale agriculture and young farmers |
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