Cambodia jails land rights activist for 2 1/2 years

• Reuters
• 23 February 2017

A Cambodian court convicted and sentenced a prominent land rights activist to 2-1/2 years in jail for her role in a protest outside Prime Minister Hun Sen's residence.

Victims put pressure on ANZ over the loss of their land

• The Age
• 23 February 2017

The ramifications of the land grab seven years ago, and the role of ANZ in financing the Phnom Penh Sugar (PPS) refinery, are still being felt today. Representative of victims are traveling to Melbourne to lobby ANZ's institutional investors for investigating their complaint against ANZ.

Olam will suspend Gabon forest clearing for a year

• The Straits Times
• 23 February 2017

Olam, majority-owned by Temasek Holdings, will suspend clearing forest in the West African country of Gabon for a year, the company announced in a press release.

Brazil to allow foreign lenders to hold land

• Global Trade Review
• 22 February 2017

Foreign lenders and investors are eagerly awaiting a change of law in Brazil, after finance minister Henrique Meirelles suggested they would be allowed to use land as collateral in trade finance and other loans from March onwards.

Nigeria in talks with China over $4.5b loan for large scale farming investment

• Naija247news
• 21 February 2017

Federal Government of Nigeria has opened negotiation with Peoples Republic of China over $4.5 billion loan to facilitate the production of agricultural machineries for large scale farming in selected states across the country.

France says “non” to land grabbing

• Slow Food
• 20 February 2017

The French Parliament has definitively adopted a bill aimed at curbing the grabbing of agricultural land by greedy and unscrupulous investors, in order to guarantee the country’s national sovereignty and support the family farming model

Ukraine: MPs apply to Constitutional Court seeking to lift farmland sale moratorium

• Interafx
• 20 February 2017

An appeal signed by 55 lawmakers has been sent to the Constitutional Court seeking to lift farmland sale moratorium in Ukraine.

Brazil pushes on with plan to open farmland sales to foreigners

• Thompson Reuters Foundation
• 16 February 2017

Brazil says it is pushing ahead with plans to change the law and let foreigners buy farmland, in a move widely backed by investors and opposed by land rights campaigners.

China's SINOCONST to invest in Belarusian agricultural industry

• For Security
• 16 February 2017

Joint Belarusian-Chinese company JSC SP ABC-Invest will implement an investment project in the agricultural industry in Minsk Oblast. The project will upgrade a pig farm (capacity of 11,500 head per year) and meat processing plant among other things.

Siaya MCAs vow to kick out Dominion Farms CEO Burgess from Yala Swamp

• K24TV
• 16 February 2017

Siaya MCAs have now vowed to kick out American investor and Dominion farms CEO Calvin Burgess from Yala swamp, accusing him of belittling the community by peddling falsehoods.

Russian farmland 'retains allure', despite Black Earth Farming exit

• Agrimoney
• 16 February 2017

Russia's farmland market remains attractive to investors, both foreign and domestic, despite the apparent snub presented by Black Earth Farming's decision to quit, with prices soaring by up to 60% last year.

Stolen SABL land would reach all the way to the moon

• Act Now
• 15 February 2017

Fifty two thousand square kilometres of customary land has been stolen in the SABL land grab in Papua New Guinea.