About 2.5 billion people around the globe, including 370 million indigenous people, depend on land and natural resources that are held, used, and managed collectively, meaning one third of the world’s population is vulnerable to dispossession by more powerful actors
Karuturi Flower Farm in Naivasha has started negotiations for an out of court settlement with its creditors. The move is expected to kick-start the revival of the flower farm which was put under receivership in 2014.
Groups express support for the French newspapers and NGOs accused of defamation for reporting on the mobilisation of villagers and farmers in West Africa who live near SOCFIN's plantations. The case opened in Paris on January 25.
A community group in Papua New Guinea says the government needs to stop organising 'land grabs' disguised as investment.
More detail surrounding foreign ownership of Australia’s agricultural assets should be made publicly available, the National Farmers’ Federation says.
In spite of a growing agricultural sector, attractive farmland prices and increasing foreign investment flowing into the sector, the decision to invest in Brazilian farmland is still very much a risk versus reward consideration.
To censure activism and opponents, Indian corporates have been using legal protection against journalists and campaigners but the debate on this issue has not taken off, possibly because of fear.
About 5,000 residents in the Island district of Buvuma have rejected a government proposal to compensate them for their land to pave way for oil palm growing for Bidco Uganda, claiming their property was undervalued.
A continued proliferation of farmland managers and investment strategies is expected in the years ahead, says president of AgIS Capital LLC
A set of changes to Armenia’s Land Code, passed today by the parliament in the second and final reading, deprives foreign citizens of the right to own agricultural land in the country.
A joint venture between Chinese companies Power China International Group Ltd and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corp. plans to make use of 3,000 hectares of irrigated land in Chókwé, southern Mozambique
Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board, got a green light to buy a medium-sized New Zealand dairy farm and a neighbouring dairy support block in Canterbury for $17.7 million just ahead of tougher requirements on land sales to foreign buyers.
