Mapping Cambodia's land concession

• LICADHO
• 25 April 2015

LICADHO, a Cambodian human rights group is releasing its land concession dataset and renewing its call for the government to fully disclose all concessions.

Call for lease of state­-owned land in Dzumajlija

• Republika
• 24 April 2015

14 foreign companies submitted letters of interest at a public call to lease the 4,435 hectares of farmland owned by Macedonia's state company Dzumajlija.

“Advance the struggle for genuine agrarian reform in Asia,” says APC

• APC
• 24 April 2015

Landlessness in Asia has worsened due to massive land grabbing, land-use conversions and plunders of natural resources carried out by private investors (domestic or foreign).

Africa and Asia farmers protest 'land grab'

• Times Live
• 22 April 2015

Farmers in Africa and Asia on Wednesday announced in a statement a string of protests over a holding company Socfin Bollore's "landgrab" in their areas.

Green tape could kill Ord farm

• West Australian
• 22 April 2015

A Chinese company developing farm land in the Ord River area has warned it will not proceed with the project under a raft of conditions set out by Australia's environmental watchdog.

Republic of Congo to promote foreign investment in agriculture

• UNCTAD
• 22 April 2015

​The country will undertake substantial reforms to its investment policy framework in order to attract and benefit more from FDI and promote agricultural development, according to an UNCTAD policy review.

Brazilian agribusiness pushes for reversal of foreign purchase ban

• Agrimoney
• 22 April 2015

The Sociedade Rural Brasileira (SRB), which represents large- and medium-scale farmers, has opened a legal battle to open up land purchases to foreign commercial investors.

Peasant farmers launch series of occupations on Socfin’s plantations

• ReAct
• 22 April 2015

Peasant farmers deprived of their lands launch a series of occupations on Socfin’s plantations in Cameroon, Liberia, Cambodia and Côte d’Ivoire from now until the annual shareholder meetings of the Socfin group (27 May) and the Bolloré group (4 June).

Guyana firm taps equity markets to build fish, plant farm; eyes eventual strategic sale

• Undercurrent
• 21 April 2015

Spinoff of US-based emerging market project developer CARANA Corp plans to eventually operate plant and fish farms on 6,000 acres.

Agri-investors stoke monoculture

• Deutsche Welle
• 21 April 2015

With more savvy investors buying up farmland, land prices have doubled within five years and the result is mega-farms like KTG Agra, which owns 50,000 ha in eastern Germany, Lithuania and Romania.

Canadian fund buys McCamley stations

• Financial Review
• 20 April 2015

One of Canada's largest pension funds, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board, has made its first rural land purchase in Australia through central Queensland's Hewitt Cattle Company.

Super farm sell-off predicted

• Financial Review
• 20 April 2015

Giant US investment fund TIAA-CREF expects Australia's ageing farmers and a lack of sons and daughters willing to inherit their farms will lead to large numbers of properties hitting the market over the coming decade.