Lack of local land rights harms fight against poverty, climate change-researchers

• Reuters
• 01 October 2015

New figures highlight "the catastrophic failure of governments to respect the basic land rights of more than 1 billion people."

Chinese investors heat up Australian farm sector as FTA expected to enhance investor action further

• International Business Times
• 29 September 2015

Australia’s rural farming sector is witnessing a spurt in Chinese investments, backed by high expectations of the upcoming free trade agreement with China.

Private equity managers back new firm to take stakes in real assets managers

• P&I
• 29 September 2015

George Soros participates in $500 million capitalisation of new firm, Tunbridge Partners, that will invest in "real assets" in timber and agriculture.

Cargill's Black River Asset Management to split into three separate firms

• Reuters
• 29 September 2015

Cargill Inc said on Monday that it will spin off Black River Asset Management LLC and split the hedge fund arm into three separate employee-owned firms. The subsidiary owns farms in Colombia, covering over 120,000 acres.

Update: Ethiopia - Ongoing arbitrary detention of Omot Agwa Okwoy and fellow human rights defenders

• Front Line Defenders
• 29 September 2015

The charges brought against the human rights defenders relate to a food security workshop that the they were due to attend in Nairobi, Kenya, in March 2015.

Chinese investors on buying spree

• Financial Review
• 28 September 2015

Chinese investors have spent $120 million in the last two months buying rural properties across Australia and the signs are that the buying spree is only the beginning, with more than $1 billion worth of deals in play.

Olam plans to double African coffee estates

• Bloomberg
• 28 September 2015

Olam International Ltd., a commodity trader controlled by Singapore's investment company, plans to more than double coffee-plantation acreage in Africa to improve quality control on the continent.

Land grabs - Territories of life

• Life Mosaic
• 28 September 2015

This video looks into the scale, drivers and impacts of the global rush for land. In this video we hear from indigenous peoples from Asia, Latin America and Africa who have first hand experience of the impacts of land grabs.

Zimbabwe: Rollex to engage more farmers

• Herald
• 28 September 2015

Rollex, an agriculture division of UK-based Lonrho, has more than 150 farmers under its contract scheme and also runs its own farms.

#NoLandNoLife | 16 Days of Global Action on Rural Women

• PAN AP
• 28 September 2015

As we commemorate Rural Women's Day on October 15 and World Food (less) Day on October 16, we join rural women and all rural folk to the rallying call: Women, assert our rights to land and resources! No land, No life!

Garifuna communities of Honduras resist corporate land grabs

• Caribbean News
• 26 September 2015

The fate of the Garifuna people of Honduras hangs in the balance as they face a Honduran state that is all too eager to accommodate the neoliberal agenda of US and Canadian investors.

Another setback for Jilin Food Zone

• Straits Times
• 26 September 2015

Resignation of CEO is latest setback to the project in north-eastern China's Jilin province meant to diversify food sources for Singaporeans and help improve safety standards for Chinese consumers.