Environmentalists accuse ING of 'greenwashing' at Brussels demo

• Euronews
• 23 October 2018

One of the more specific projects targeted by the activists involves the palm oil company SocFin, which is active in Sierra Leone.

PIC buys into Africa's biggest feedlot in $365 million deal

• Bloomberg
• 23 October 2018

The South African state-workers’ pension funds and black-economic empowerment group Pelo Agricultural Ventures take a majority stake in Karan Beef (Pty) Ltd., owner of the continent’s largest cattle feedlot.

ING finances controversial palm oil companies in spite of sustainability policy

• FIAN et al
• 23 October 2018

As ING launches its sustainable investment campaign, a civil society coalition from Belgium and the Netherlands calls upon ING to clean up their act. ING’s financing of controversial palm oil companies such as SOCFIN is far from sustainable.

Burkina Faso adopts a new agricultural investment code: How does it contribute to sustainable development?

• IISD
• 22 October 2018

The newly adopted agricultural investment code aims to develop resilient and productive rural sectors, while reinforcing a market-oriented approach based on the principles of sustainable development.

Lao villagers denied payment for land by Vietnamese firm

• Radio Free Asia
• 18 October 2018

Lao villagers being refused compensation by Vietnam-owned rubber company, which says the land belongs not to the villagers but to the state. The villagers signed agreement on 2009 to leased their land under promise they'll secured work and profit sharing with the company, but haven't received anything until now.

Landgrabbing, illicit finance and corporate crime: an update

• GRAIN
• 17 October 2018

GRAIN recently learned that several cases of land grabbing have been prosecuted in the courts, or been acted upon by national authorities, and so we have compiled a short update on these developments.

Dirty deals threaten Kenya's food security, report says

• Business Daily
• 17 October 2018

A report by the Economist Intelligence Unit says land grabs are another common mechanism of corruption threatening Kenya's food security, citing instances where backdoor deals were used to secure land.

Fate of troubled Karuturi to be known December

• Nation
• 16 October 2018

Kenya's Court of Appeal is in December expected to determine if Karuturi will pay Sh1.8 billion contested debt to Stanbic Bank before the dispute before High Court is determined.

New report highlights human rights abuses caused by SABL land grab

• ActNow PNG
• 15 October 2018

The SABL Land Grab: Papua New Guinea’s Ongoing Human Rights Scandal, a new report published by ACT NOW! and UK based charity, War on Want highlights the devastating impacts on people living in rural communities and gives a voice to those who have suffered the illegal loss of their land to logging and oil-palm plantations.

Int’l mission decries state neglect, rights violations in Cambodia land dispute with Chinese company

• PCFS
• 14 October 2018

International groups submitted to the United Nations (UN) officials the results of an independent international fact-finding mission in Cambodia that found local and national authorities are facilitating the land grabbing of a Chinese company in Preah Vihear province.

IMF-WBG and landgrabbing: Funding rural peoples’ destitution

• PCFS
• 12 October 2018

Despite all the hypocritical calls and posturing of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank for ending hunger, they have facilitated, enabled, and led the global rush for landgrabs

IFC likely to extend $10m debt to Phoenix Commodities’ Kazakhstan project

• Deal Street Asia
• 12 October 2018

Phoenix Fruits, a subsidiary of Phoenix Commodities, the global Indian agri-business giant, is in the process of securing several greenfield sites for fruit production in Kazakhstan