Zambia country profile

• Land Matrix
• 26 May 2016

In-depth profile of large scale investments in Zambia by the Land Matrix.

Brazil to lift limits on foreigners' owning of land

• Reuters
• 26 May 2016

Brazil's government plans to lift current limits on foreign ownership of agricultural land, Secretary of Investment Moreira Franco, the person behind privatization for the new administration, told Reuters on Wednesday.

Brazil coup government to legalize foreign land grabbing

• TeleSur
• 25 May 2016

The expected lifting of foreign land ownership will be a windfall for the timber, soy and sugar industries -- and a nightmare for campesinos.

ProSavana files

• 25 May 2016

A collection of official ProSavana files and reports from 2009 to 2016.

West Papuans, activists protest against Sorong oil palm expansion

• Asia Pacific Report
• 25 May 2016

As the indigenous people of Sorong, Nabire, Merauke and elsewhere in West Papua continue to resist oil palm expansion, there now appears to be some hope that the government is responding to President Joko Widodo’s call last month for a moratorium on all new permits.

Tanzania: Project axed to save wildlife

• Citizen
• 24 May 2016

The Government has decided to shelf the Bagamoyo EcoEnergy sugar plantation project in order to safeguard Wami River from which the project would draw its water.

How agribusiness acts in Europe

• Radio Mundo Real
• 23 May 2016

Real World Radio interviewed Paula Gioia, member of Arbeitsgemeinschaft der bauerliche Landwirtschaft and the European Coordination of La Via Campesina during the International Conference on Agrarian Reform in Pará, Brazil.

Florida farmland becoming big deal for institutional investors

• Growing Produce
• 20 May 2016

Real estate agent says with commodity prices down, institutional investors who had been investing in farmland in the Midwest are turning their attention to places like Florida, and sees upswing in investment from Latin America.

World Bank lifts freeze on Cambodia loans amid protests

• Mongabay
• 20 May 2016

The Bank says the move will help alleviate poverty in the Southeast Asian country, but land rights activists expressed disappointment over the decision.

98- year old, blind Elizabeth has to give way for palm oil plantation

• LJ4WA
• 19 May 2016

Thousands of people are being disenfranchised, evicted and deprived of their livelihoods near Kade, Eastern Region of Ghana, by the Belgian oil palm plantation company GOPDC.

Brazil's Guarani Indians killing themselves over loss of ancestral land

• Guardian
• 19 May 2016

Arson attacks and eviction at gunpoint for plantations driving many to despair and take their own lives.

Vietnamese, Thai firms to pour $4 bln into Russian dairy production

• Reuters
• 18 May 2016

State-backed Russia Direct Investment Fund announced plans on Wednesday to sign an agreement with Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Group on joint investments in the construction of a $1 billion milk and dairy complex in the Ryazan region of Russia.