PNG: Lands Minister blocking government promises to cancel SABL leases?

• ActNow
• 07 Mar 2017

Lands Minister Benny Allen is blocking the implementation of government decisions to end the SABL land grab and return stolen land to its customary owners.

Chinese investors reconsider plantations as profits prove elusive in banana business

• Vientiane Times
• 07 Mar 2017

Some Chinese investors plan to shutter their banana farms in Laos and relocate to other countries while others plan to replace the yellow herbaceous fruit with other agricultural crops after sustaining losses.

Philippines: Agribusiness ventures seen to generate more jobs

• Davao Today
• 07 Mar 2017

Palm oil, rubber, cacao, and coffee were among the farm products that would be sought ​by investors, he said. Their target farmland will be in Paquibato and Marilog districts of the city.

Revealed: the carbon time-bomb inside the world’s largest tropical peatland

• IDM
• 03 Mar 2017

By far the largest current risk to this uniquely valuable ecosystem in the Congo is a giant concession issued to Malaysian firm Atama Plantation for the development of palm oil.

Africa's top hedge fund starts food-focused private-equity

• Bloomberg
• 03 Mar 2017

Cape Town-based Polar Star Management Ltd plans to use its own money to buy small farms and processing companies in South Africa this year.

Our endorsement of the Open Letter of the Mozambican civil society organisations to JICA

• 01 Mar 2017

Our endorsement of the Open Letter of the Mozambican civil society organisations to JICA entitled "Protest against JICA’s action to the Mozambican society under the ProSAVANA programme"

Protest against JICA’s impacts on Mozambican society in relation to the ProSavana programme

• No to ProSavana
• 01 Mar 2017

This is the first letter that peasants and civil society organisations of Mozambique that are part of the “No to ProSavana Campaign” send to JICA.

Indonesia: Malalilis oh Malalilis, what fate has befallen you?

• AwasMIFEE
• 28 February 2017

Stories of communities affected by Noble Group's plantation in Papua, recorded during the Conference for Indigenous Communities affected by Investment in the Land of Papua in December 2016.

Congo plantation firm financed by UK aid accused of breaking promise to help workers

• Reuters
• 28 February 2017

One of Africa's largest palm oil companies that is majority-owned by the British government through foreign aid funding has failed to meet a promise to improve housing for its Congolese workers or pay them on time, investigations have revealed.

Taking on the logging pirates: Land defenders in Papua New Guinea speak out!

• Oakland Institute
• 28 February 2017

A landmark report from the Oakland Institute elevates the voices of communities across the country who are opposing the theft of their land, made possible by the corrupt practices of local officials and foreign logging and palm oil companies.

Myanmar: amend Special Economic Zones Law to protect human rights – new ICJ report

• ICJ
• 27 February 2017

The Government of Myanmar should impose a moratorium on the development of SEZs until it can ensure SEZs can be developed inline with international human rights laws and standards, said the ICJ at a report launch held today in Yangon.

Convening of Arab Conference on Agricultural Investment in Khartoum

• Sudan Vision
• 27 February 2017

Sudan's Minister of Investment says the conference will be attended by ministers responsible of investment in the Arab world, organizations, financing institutions and businessmen and constitutes a solid base for promoting the agricultural investment in Sudan.