• Karuturi loses court immunity in liquidation row
      • Citizen
      • 28 January 2019

      The decision by the Supreme Court's Court of Appeal gives the green light to Stanbic Bank Plc to dispose off Karuturi Limited assets as foreclosure to defaulted loans totaling to Ksh. 621 million in the flower farm's pre-receivership

    • BBC report from Sahn Malen chiefdom, Sierra Leone
      • BBC
      • 27 January 2019

      Details are just emerging of the scale of the recent disturbances in Sahn Malen chiefdom in Southern Sierra Leone. There are disputes between local land owners and a European agribusiness company, SOCFIN. BBC reporter Umaru Fofana went to the area with a group of human rights activists and sent this special report from Pujehun.

    • In Sierra Leone, land rights defenders under attack
      • SILNORF, Green Scenery, et al
      • 24 January 2019

      At least two villagers killed and dozens of others are in hiding or being held by police in Malen, Sierra Leone following a brutal intervention by police and military to suppress local protests against SOCFIN's oil palm plantation operations.

    • World Bank’s new scheme to privatize land in the developing world exposed
      • Oakland Institue
      • 24 January 2019

      A new Oakland Institute report details how the Bank’s Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) project promotes large-scale land acquisitions and the expansion of agribusinesses in the developing world.

    • Uzbekistan offers 20,000 hectare land to farmers, firms
      • DNA India
      • 23 January 2019

      Under an MoU signed between Gujarat Agro Industries Corporation and the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Uzbek government has offered the Indian company around 20,000 ha of land for farming

    • Major foreign company to sell out investment amid troubling conditions
      • FrontPageAfrica
      • 23 January 2019

      Sime Darby has put up its oil plantation in Liberia on sale after failing to acquire all 220,000 hectares of land the government promised it as stated in a concession agreement signed about a decade ago.

    • Brazilian government split on land ownership law
      • Dialogo Chino
      • 22 January 2019

      Environmentalists and communities fear the consequences of changing 2010 foreign ownership regulations on farmland.

    • Govt. must publish full SABL list
      • ActNow PNG
      • 22 January 2019

      ACT NOW! is demanding Papua New Guinea government to immediately publish a full list of SABLs current status. SABL is one of the world’s biggest illegal land grabs, and now more than 5-years after PNG government promised to cancel the SABL, people are still waiting to hear which leases have been cancelled.

    • Global asset and risk manager receives Guernsey Green Fund designation
      • International Investment
      • 21 January 2019

      Insight Investment received a Guernsey Green Fund accreditation for its farmland fund, the Global Farmland Fund Limited (GFF), which invests in farming projects worldwide

    • Belgian human rights defender illegally expulsed from Cameroon
      • CED
      • 21 January 2019

      Cameroon’s top human rights body condemns human rights violations committed against a member of a local farmers association (OFFGO) embroiled in land conflicts with an influential Cameroon businessman

    • UNAC press release on the Prosavana programme
      • UNAC
      • 21 January 2019

      Mozambique's national peasant organisation UNAC dissociates itself from a press release issued by the Civil Society Platforms of the provinces of Nampula, Zambezia and Niassa, in relation to the Master Plan of the Prosavana programme.

    • Chinese investors protest against new crackdown on investment
      • AFR
      • 18 January 2019

      Australia's foreign investment regulator no longer believes private companies in China are free of Communist Party control, and plans on subjecting Chinese takeovers and deals, such as those for farmland, to more screening on national security grounds.

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