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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11568

9 June 2016
Contents Publication in full By article 13 / 37
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / (ae) development
“No” to land grab in Africa under cover of NAFSN

Strasbourg, 08/06/2016 (Agence Europe) - The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NAFSN), an EU backed G8 initiative to develop agriculture in partnership with local companies, is viewed with some suspicion by the European Parliament. Evidence of this is the resolution adopted in Strasbourg on Tuesday 7 June by the wide majority of 577 to 24, with 69 abstentions which warns against a sort of neo-colonialism that contains the seeds of land grabbing in sub-Saharan Africa that is...

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY
ECONOMY - FINANCE
SECTORAL POLICIES
EXTERNAL ACTION
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
NEWS BRIEFS