Series of video clips by filmmaker Kalyanee Mam explore the social and environmental issues related to deforestation, land grabbing, industrial agriculture, and overfishing in Cambodia.
Issues of land and corruption are intricately linked. Over the last decade increasing commercial demand for land has made the sector more vulnerable to corrupt abuse by those in a position to own or control land.
An ABC Rural investigation reveals the extent of the creep of foreign ownership in the Top End, particularly over the past three years.
Government considers the development of two plots of land on the Ord River irrigation scheme so risky that it demanded a $150 million a year guarantee from the Chinese company behind the farming project.
Cambodia government has announced a new review of economic land concessions, shortening the period of some from 99 years to 50 years. Land concessions to private enterprises over the years has creating thousands of land disputes and causing many people to become displaced.
Twenty-three companies holding a total of 90,682 hectares in Cambodia economic land concessions (ELCs) have had their concessions rescinded, while another 20 are being monitored.
Old Mutual Investment Group is targeting agricultural investments in Africa through Futuregrowth, an asset management affiliate of Old Mutual.
A unit of China's state-owned Bright Food Group Co Ltd will take a half share in New Zealand's biggest meat co-operative for $197 million, as China looks to import more of the country's agricultural products.
“We have received proposals for huge pieces of land in two countries. We would like to see these formalised and signed, after which we can announce the investment opportunities," says Minister of Agriculture.
Investors have turned to farmland as part of a sweeping push into physical assets — everything from lumber, hotels and apartments to parking meters, bridges and highways.
The Edo State government has articulated a policy that allows investors to own government lands irrespective of the size for about 200 thousand naira.
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Some prominent Nigerians, including wealthy foreign investors, are purchasing huge tracts of land for farming with projects worth millions of naira