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Using the tenure guidelines for action research
- TNI
- 27 July 2017
This practical guide focuses on investigating accountability and accountability politics in the context of the current global rush for land and other natural resources
World Bank offers 10 mln USD for land policy project in Sierra Leone
- Xinhua
- 27 July 2017
The World Bank says it had a team of consultants in Sierra Leone in May 2017 to do an assessment of large scale agricultural land acquisitions and that the report is now ready with several recommendations.
RoK firm seeks investment opportunities in Hau Giang
- VNA
- 27 July 2017
Korea's Dusung Food Co., Ltd is looking for a large area of land to cultivate crops within the 5,200 ha hi-tech agriculture zone in Hau Giang Province, Vietnam
MST land occupations spread throughout Brazil
- TeleSur
- 27 July 2017
The movement also opposes land reform that eases restrictions on foreigners to own land in Brazil at the expense of poor families in irregular settlements.
Vietnam rubber firm reaches accord with Ratanakkiri ethnic villages
- Phnom Penh Post
- 27 July 2017
In an agreement mediated by the IFC’s watchdog mechanism, a controversial Vietnamese plantations company has reached a deal with 11 ethnic minority villages affected by its Ratanakkiri operations
Large scale concessions in Liberia violate women’s land and resource rights and fail to deliver promised benefits
- RRI
- 26 July 2017
Community and rural women, who rely on their customary lands for their survival, cultures, and livelihoods, are often cut off from the decision-making processes concerning large scale concessions that affect them.
US farmland overtakes timberland in investor returns
- Agrimoney
- 26 July 2017
Timberland has fallen back behind farmland as a US investment. Returns from farmland jumped to 1.6% from 0.5% in the January-to-March period.
Agriculture as an asset class
- Global AgInvesting
- 25 July 2017
Investors bold enough to diversify with an overseas agricultural investment can find plenty of untapped opportunities, strong upside potential, and an industry poised to profit from the rise in global population and corresponding demand for food.
Timber, agriculture cycles forcing firms to examine new avenues
- P&I
- 25 July 2017
Agriculture fundraising appears to be slowing. This year, three agriculture funds raised $500 million. By comparison, 13 agriculture funds raised $3.3 billion in 2016, which was down from the all-time high point in 2014 of $5.4 billion raised by 14 funds.
Hassad Australia sells Clover Downs Station for $27M
- GAI
- 24 July 2017
Hassad Australia, a $469 million farming company and wholly owned subsidiary of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund has sold the Clover Downs Station located in Queensland, Australia, to farmer Bill Zell for $27 million.
Kenya: Tourist firm Crayfish sues Twiga Roses over unpaid debt
- Nation
- 21 July 2017
A Naivasha company has sued the cash-strapped flower firm Twiga Roses, formerly Karuturi Limited, seeking to eject it from its land over unpaid land rent and illegal acquisition.
Bulgarian MPs postpone amendments on opening up sale of farmland to foreigners
- Sofia Globe
- 20 July 2017
At the initiative of the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party, all groups in the National Assembly except one have agreed to the withdrawal of legislative amendments intended at opening up the sale of agricultural land to foreigners.