• Singapore group buys Queensland farms
    • AFR
    • 12 November 2012

    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.

  • Action against land grabs in Berlin
    • INKOTA
    • 17 April 2012

    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.

  • Fair access to land and food: How to stop global land grabbing
    • Greens/EFA
    • 08 Mar 2012

    Conference organised by the Greens / EFA in the European Parliament

  • European banks fuelling food price volatility and hunger
    • FOE
    • 12 January 2012

    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

  • World's rich nurture returns from forests and farms
    • Reuters
    • 04 October 2011

    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.

  • Bittersweet Harvest: Thai sugar company on land grab in Cambodia?
    • Khmerization
    • 13 September 2011

    Major Thai producer among businesses facing land-grab allegations in Cambodia's lucrative sugar industry.

  • Landnahme in Äthiopien
    • Der Tagesspiegel
    • 03 April 2011

    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.

  • Report Mainz: Brutale Landnahme
    • YouTube
    • 08 November 2010

    Wie sich DWS-Fonds der Deutschen Bank am "Land Crapping" beteiligen

  • German investment funds involved in land grabbing
    • FIAN
    • 25 October 2010

    Report provides detailed information about investment opportunities in land grabbing offered to German private and institutional investors.

  • Wall Street fait main basse sur les terres agricoles
    • La Terre
    • 30 November 2009

    Sous l’œil bienveillant de l’ONU, les grands noms de la finance s’accaparent des régions agricoles entières.

  • Foreign investors snap up African farmland
    • Der Spiegel
    • 30 July 2009

    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.

  • All eyes on the Chinese pork industry
    • ThePigSite
    • 29 August 2008

    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.

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