How investment treaties protect 'land grab' deals

• IIED
• 17 February 2016

New research examining the geographical coverage of international investment treaties raises concern about how they might affect public action to address 'land grabbing'.

Improving global land governance with technologies, partnerships and donor coherence

• Donor Platform
• 17 February 2016

The Donor Platform commissioned 4 studies to guide donors in prioritising activities and investments in land governance.

Ex-Macquarie director Tim Hornibrook cops ASIC ban for fake email ploy

• SMH
• 16 February 2016

Mr Hornibrook, who was a former head of Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management, along with some members of his sales team, were found to have extracted sensitive commercial information from a rival fund.

ANZ still owes villagers over sugar loan: Oxfam

• Phnom Penh Post
• 16 February 2016

Australian banking giant ANZ has come under fire for its response to a scandal over its financing of a sugar plantation previously linked to forced evictions and child labour in Kampong Speu province.

New study on Dutch floriculture investments in eastern Africa and the impacts on local food security

• F&BKP
• 16 February 2016

The Netherlands Academy on Land Governance / IDS Utrecht University has conducted a scoping study on Dutch flower farms, land governance and local food security in eastern Africa

Still banking on land grabs: Australia's big four banks and land grabs

• Oxfam
• 15 February 2016

Follow up from 2014 Oxfam report "Banking on Shaky Ground – Australia's big four banks and land grabs", asserts that all four banks have failed to ensure the affected communities' rights to food, shelter and a sustainable livelihood were restored.

Australian banks and land grabs

• Oxfam
• 15 February 2016

​Almost two years ago Oxfam revealed that Australia’s Big 4 Banks — the ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, NAB and Westpac — are backing agriculture and timber companies linked to land grabs in developing countries.

Fresh manure for Romania

• All Things Romania
• 13 February 2016

Southern Harvest Company, a subsidiary of the American investment fund Anholt Services, has pruchased 2,700 hectares of farming land in Romania following two separate transactions

Southern Harvest buys 2,700 hectares of farming land in Romania

• Act Media
• 12 February 2016

The farmland area owned in Romania by Southern Harvest, a subsidiary of the US investment fund Anholt Services, just grew by 45%

Thai firm: Sugar farm damage assessment is almost finished

• Cambodia Daily
• 12 February 2016

A Thai environmental auditing firm has confirmed that it is assessing the fallout from a trio of plantations in Oddar Meanchey province that Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol abandoned in late 2014 amid mounting accusations of land grabbing.

Ex-Cargill buyout firm seeks farmland acquisitions in Brazil

• Bloomberg
• 12 February 2016

Proterra Investment Partners , the private-equity firm spun off from agricultural commodities producer and trader Cargill Inc., is looking at several opportunities to buy farmland in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America.

Companies must explore Africa for producing pulses, oilseed: Govt of India

• Business Standard
• 11 February 2016

"We are willing to offer 10,000-15,000 hectare on lease for 99 years," Zambia Agriculture Minister Given Lubinda said.