State land grabs fuel Sudan’s crisis
      About 500 farmers were left landless when the Sudanese government grabbed it to establish the Habilla Agricultural Project, ignoring their inheritance rights and claiming they had not paid their ‘ownership renewal fee’.
      • Mail & Guardian
      • 05 May 2018
      Have $1 billion to invest? Buy agricultural land is Lord Andrew Hay’s advice
      The wishlist of the global head of residential division, Knight Frank, like many of today’s high-networth individuals, involves investing in agricultural land.
      • Economic Times
      • 04 May 2018
      Koh Kong villagers bitter over longstanding land dispute
      Around 400 villagers from Koh Kong province allegedly affected by ruling party Senator Ly Yong Phat’s sugar plantations petitioned the Land Management Ministry on Wednesday, demanding compensation packages.
      • Phnom Penh Post
      • 03 May 2018
      Zimbabwe opposition MDC 'will expel Chinese investors'
      Nelson Chamisa has vowed, if he wins elections due in July, to expel Chinese investors who have stakes worth many billions of dollars in everything from agriculture to construction.
      • BBC
      • 02 May 2018
      2017 was deadliest year on record for Colombian human rights defenders
      Human rights groups are calling on the International Criminal Court to open formal investigation into killings of land defenders in Colombia, saying the Colombian government is failing to investigate the crimes properly.
      • Guardian
      • 02 May 2018
      Is land speculation helping destroy Brazil’s “birthplace of waters”?
      On the occasion of a new report on land speculation in the Cerrado by the Brazilian Network for Social Justice and Human Rights, Friends of the Earth (FOE) interviews one of the report’s authors to shine some light on the issue.
      • 01 May 2018
      Understanding China's foreign agriculture investments in the developing world
      China’s investment in foreign agriculture totaled $26 billion in 2016, with investments in 100 countries. But this may just be the tip of the iceberg. A new report by the United States Department of Agriculture to understand both the scale and purpose of foreign investment in agriculture, forestry, and fisheries.
      • Devex
      • 30 April 2018
      China’s agricultural investment abroad is rising
      China’s agricultural investment abroad grew more than tenfold in less than a decade and parallels its emergence as a major importer of agricultural commodities. But the focus of investments are shifting from farming and raw materials to business acquisition.
      • USDA
      • 30 April 2018
      Congo Basin: The coming storm
      How secrecy and collusion in industrial agriculture spell disaster for the Congo Basin’s rainforests.
      • Earthsight
      • 29 April 2018
      French tycoon Bollore's African assets
      Billionaire French industrialist Vincent Bollore, who is a major shareholder in the plantation company SOCFIN, is being questioned in Paris over allegations that his conglomerate used corrupt connections in Africa to win port contracts.
      • ADP
      • 26 April 2018
      Harvard endowment linked to land grab in Brazil
      The Harvard Management Company, which handles Harvard University's $37 billion endowment, has recently been linked to an agribusiness that may have been involved in deforestation and fraudulent land titles.
      • The Takeaway
      • 26 April 2018
      Liberians plan sit-in to pressure Weah to protect land rights
      Chiefs across Liberia are petitioning lawmakers while activists prepare for a sit-in protest in the nation’s capital as they push to secure ancestral land rights.
      • Reuters
      • 26 April 2018

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