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Farmland board rules against investment group
- Western Producer
- 29 January 2015
Saskatchewan’s Farm Land Security Board has issued its second decision on a case that could transform the way land is bought and sold in the province. 
Embattled flower farm Karuturi
- KTN Kenya
- 28 January 2015
Receiver managers of embattled flower farm Karuturi are disputing claims the farm and its assets have been put up for sale.
Is ‘land policy’ the solution to land grab in Africa?
- Oakland Institue
- 28 January 2015
Debate over large scale land investments in Africa is shifting from the disastrous impact of land grabs to the need for African governments to deal with citizens’ outrage by developing a ‘land policy’.
Nigerian farmers face destitution from 300 sq.km land grab backed by UK aid
- The Ecologist
- 28 January 2015
Development secretary Justine Greening is facing questions over UK involvement in a massive land-grab in Nigeria that is evicting local farmers from 300 square kilometres of fertile farmland.
Dominion Farm's land grab in Nigeria
- ERA/FoEN | CEED
- 28 January 2015
Farmers in Taraba State refuse to give up their lands for massive rice plantation project backed by the G8
Equatorial Palm Oil secures $20.5m loan for joint venture
- StockMarketWire
- 27 January 2015
Equatorial Palm Oil has announced that its 50% owned joint venture company, Liberian Palm Developments, has entered into a $20.5m loan agreement.
Indonesia: We reject the palm oil companies because this is our home
- WALHI
- 27 January 2015
A new video from WALHI documents the views of villagers in Bengkulu Province, on the west coast of Sumatra, who are resisting the expansion of palm oil on their lands.
Press release on Bamba Village shooting incident
- ALLAT
- 27 January 2015
In wake of shooting and arrests, ALLAT calls for a moratorium on large scale land acquisitions in Sierra Leone.
The corporate takeover of Ukrainian agriculture
- IPS
- 27 January 2015
Frédéric Mousseau, Policy Director at the Oakland Institute, argues that the United States and the European Union are working hand in hand in a takeover of Ukrainian agriculture
Flower firm Karuturi goes under the gave
- The Daily Nation
- 26 January 2015
Naivasha-based flower farm Karuturi Ltd — the Kenyan subsidiary of the world’s biggest producer of cut roses — has been put on sale by receiver managers.
PKA's Principles for Responsible Investment in Farmland
- PKA
- 26 January 2015
Danish pension fund explains its approach to farmland investment in this report.
Canadian province eyes tougher rules on investor farm buys
- Reuters
- 26 January 2015
Saskatchewan is likely to tighten what are already some of North America's strictest rules for purchasing farmland as the Western Canadian province looks to fend off big money managers.