Singapore group buys Queensland farms
    Duxton Asset Management has bought more than 800 hectares of Australian fruit orchards for a discount of more than 50 per cent from receivers of failed managed investment scheme Rewards Group and listed land owner Ark Fund.
    • AFR
    • 12 November 2012
    Action against land grabs in Berlin
    On April 17th, Berlin based INKOTA activists gathered in front of Deutsche Bank on Friedrichstraße dressed as bankers and ready to dig into an oversized cake representing the African continent.
    • INKOTA
    • 17 April 2012
    Fair access to land and food: How to stop global land grabbing
    Conference organised by the Greens / EFA in the European Parliament
    • Greens/EFA
    • 08 Mar 2012
    European banks fuelling food price volatility and hunger
    European banks, pension funds and insurance companies are increasing global hunger and poverty by speculating on food prices and financing land grabs in poorer countries, according to a new report released today by Friends of the Earth Europe
    • FOE
    • 12 January 2012
    World's rich nurture returns from forests and farms
    A small but growing number of the world's wealthy are shoring up their portfolios with investments in forestry and farmland in an effort to take the sting from losses in more traditional assets as the financial crisis trundles on.
    • Reuters
    • 04 October 2011
    Bittersweet Harvest: Thai sugar company on land grab in Cambodia?
    Major Thai producer among businesses facing land-grab allegations in Cambodia's lucrative sugar industry.
    • Khmerization
    • 13 September 2011
    Landnahme in Äthiopien
    Das Klima ist ideal, Arbeitskräfte sind billig und die lukrativsten Märkte sind nur wenige Flugstunden entfernt. In Äthiopien züchten Investoren tonnenweise Gemüse und Reis. Jedoch nicht für die Bevölkerung.
    • Der Tagesspiegel
    • 03 April 2011
    Report Mainz: Brutale Landnahme
    Wie sich DWS-Fonds der Deutschen Bank am "Land Crapping" beteiligen
    • YouTube
    • 08 November 2010
    German investment funds involved in land grabbing
    Report provides detailed information about investment opportunities in land grabbing offered to German private and institutional investors.
    • FIAN
    • 25 October 2010
    Wall Street fait main basse sur les terres agricoles
    Sous l’œil bienveillant de l’ONU, les grands noms de la finance s’accaparent des régions agricoles entières.
    • La Terre
    • 30 November 2009
    Foreign investors snap up African farmland
    Because of the political sensitivity of the modern-day land grab, it is often only the country's head of state who knows the details. Der Spiegel investigates.
    • Der Spiegel
    • 30 July 2009
    All eyes on the Chinese pork industry
    An expected call from Goldman Sachs could change 59-year-old pig farmer, Zou Changkui's (who resides in the southern Chinese city of Longyan) life forever.
    • ThePigSite
    • 29 August 2008
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