In the last ten years, pension funds and other large investment funds have invested more and more in agricultural land as a part of their financial portfolios, contributing to increasing human rights violations and environmental destruction.
In an open letter to the President of Senegal, the association of active rural women for an emerging Senegal calls for a solution to the uprising of the Fouta people over the sale of 10,000 ha of arable lands to the Moroccan group Addoha, owned by Anas Sefrioui.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will buy a 13% stake in the Agricover group, owned by Iranian investor Jabbar Kanani.
On ‘Food Sovereignty Day’ La Via Campesina launches publication that calls for a massive change in the current agro-food systems
Globally, 108 million people faced food crises in 2016, of whom 72% were in Africa. Meanwhile more than 70% of large scale agriculture land deals involved Africa. In most deals, local community concerns are often ignored to benefit big investors and their allies in government.
Triton Group is partnering with China's Choice International Group on a 4,000 ha commercial agriculture project in Anambra State, Nigeria
On 9 October the Platform's Global Donor Working Group on Land organised a side event at the Committee on World Food Security in Rome to draw attention to this still little understood phenomenon.
ICICI Bank has put Naivasha-based Karuturi Ltd up for sale over a disputed Sh4 billion loan. The planned sale could mark the end for the erstwhile world’s largest rose flower producer.
Le président de la République d’Angola a annoncé que les exploitants agricoles qui ne mettent pas en valeur les terres obtenues en concession, perdront le droit de les exploiter
The story of money, power and politics behind the devastation of a forest-rich district in Indonesian Borneo.
The investigative series Indonesia for Sale, shines new light on the corruption behind Indonesia’s deforestation and land rights crisis. The stories expose the role of collusion between palm oil firms and politicians.
Companies launch the Ceres - Sprott Institutional Farmland Fund to provide institutional investors the opportunity to participate in the North American farmland investment market.
