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Socially responsible farmland investment: a growing trap
- GRAIN
- 14 October 2015
Does it make sense to fight land grabbing by adopting rules on how to do it more responsibly?
Polish farmers arrested defending farmland
- ICPPC
- 14 October 2015
Police arrest 11 farmers from Pyrzyce where 60% of farmland has already been sold off to foreign buyers. The farmers are accused of blocking tenders connected with the foreign sale of farming estates.
Chinese buy nation’s largest dairy, Van Diemen’s Land Company
- The Australian
- 13 October 2015
Herman Shao-ming Hu and Kenny Zhang are finalising the purchase of a majority interest in the 190-year-old Van Diemen’s Land Company (VDL) in Tasmania, Australia.
Senhuile: The agribusiness firm continues laying off workers at an unbridled pace
- Enquête
- 12 October 2015
Right now, Senhuile Inc is caught in a web of lawsuits.
Shanghai Pengxin unit ends attempt to buy Northland farms
- BusinessDesk
- 12 October 2015
Dakang New Zealand Farm Group, which is 55 percent owned by Shanghai Pengxin, has quit efforts to buy 10 farms in Northland, citing five months of silence from the Overseas Investment Office.
Kiwi shareholders sell out of Shanghai Pengxin's Purata Farms
- Stuff
- 12 October 2015
Dairy investors John Penno and Juliet Maclean are selling out of Chinese-controlled Purata Farms, the Canterbury corporate they founded 15 years ago as Synlait Farms.
Chinese firms buy, lease far less African farmland than thought - book
- Reuters
- 12 October 2015
Contrary to reports that Chinese firms were buying or leasing millions of hectares of prime African farmland, Chinese investors have acquired only about 240,000 hectares.
A $200 million dollar shell game in Seychelles
- Daily Beast
- 11 October 2015
Chinnakannan Sivasankaran, “one of the world’s largest farmland holders”, allegedly used bankruptcy for fun and profit.
Brazilian agrarian social movements
- JPS
- 09 October 2015
Journal of Peasant Studies issue focusing on agrarian social movements in Brazil, includes struggles for land.
How a World Bank translator became a hunted man
- ICIJ
- 08 October 2015
Human rights advocates criticize the bank for failing to speak up about the jailing of a former employee in Ethiopia and two other environmental defenders
Staple Crop Processing Zone Kogi: Another form of land grabbing?
- LandJustice4WA
- 08 October 2015
Under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda, Nigeria designed the idea of Staple Crop Processing Zones. Is this a model for the future or just another myth?
Canada: Saskatchewan residents don’t support foreign-owned farmland: survey
- Globe & Mail
- 08 October 2015
Nearly nine out of every 10 people who responded to a Saskatchewan government survey say they don’t want the province’s farmland to end up in foreign hands.