Global demand for agricultural land has increased 14-fold since the 2008 spike in global food prices. With that comes increasing cases of land grab, violence, and force eviction. Why every actor that could have prevent that is becoming increasingly powerless to do so.
- Foreign Policy
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11 April 2016
The push to buy Australian farmland and buy into agribusinesses continues to grow, with one report showing an overall jump of $1.9 billion in proposed agricultural investment, year-on-year.
Saudi-based Al Rajhi International for Investment company targets injecting 1.2 billion Egyptian pounds (US$135 million) to reclaim 75,000 feddans in Egypt's Toshka project until 2020.
- Amwal Alghad
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09 April 2016
Chinese investors will spend nearly $2.5 billion in agriculture and $1.7 billion in financial assets. In 2014, those were numbers were $32 million and $51 million respectively.
Conflict between Cameroonian communities and an American agribusiness company reveals problems in how palm oil is expanding across the country.
Since 2012, TerraProject, a documentary photography collective based in Italy, has been producing the first global visual investigation on land investments. They now issue the first photographic book on land issues by TerraProject (photographs) and Cécile Cazenave (journalist).
- TerraProject
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07 April 2016
More than 100 companies both local and overseas have registered for land concessions on state land in Champassak, Laos.
- Vientiane Times
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07 April 2016
The struggles for land, water, and territory are central to the struggle for Food Sovereignty.
- Via Campesina
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06 April 2016
Stakeholders in land administration, on Wednesday discussed details of a project that aims at ensuring socially responsible land-based investments.
Chinese fertilizer producer Hubei Xinyangfeng has secured its first allotment of farmland outside of China, after it purchased a farm in southern New South Wales, Australia.
- China Daily
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05 April 2016
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is in advanced talks to buy a stake in Miner and commodity trader Glencore Plc's agricultural business, which has farming operations covering 270,000ha in Argentina, Australia, Kazakhstan, Russia and the Ukraine.
Kehong Uganda has embarked on massive clearing of the wetland to pave way for rice growing, horticulture, poultry and establishment of factories. The firm has also diverted the water, which has been flowing into River Lugogo and Lake Kyoga for use.