Canada: Is it time to relax land ownership restrictions?

• Western Producer
• 26 February 2015

Farmers in Saskatchewan are worried that outside investors are artificially inflating land prices and keeping regular farmers from expanding their operations

Arab businessmen reaffirm the success of agricultural investment projects in Khartoum State

• Albashir
• 25 February 2015

he governor Abdul Rahman Al Khidir has meanwhile stressed when he received the UAE investors of Al Mohair Group, specialized in agricultural production in West Omdurman, that the state is ready to provide all necessary assistance so that the production reach its peak.

Qatar's Hassad Food eyes Brazilian sugar, poultry assets

• Reuters
• 25 February 2015

"We are not closing the book on farmlands, but for the time being we are focusing on other layers of the chain," says vice president for business development at Hassad Food.

Tunisia wants agribusiness partnerships with Brazil

• ANBA
• 24 February 2015

Tunisia is interested in partnering up with Brazil for agribusiness, according to the CEO of the Arab country’s Agency for Agricultural Investment Promotion.

World Bank dam and foreign land-grab force out Ethiopian tribes

• Digital Journal
• 24 February 2015

World Bank and China join Ethiopia's government to relocate 200,000 villagers of the Omo River and Lake Turkana Valley to replace them with super-irrigation plantations.

Dealing in Africa with land issues in a human rights perspective

• FIAN
• 23 February 2015

A new booklet provides information and guidance on how to defend land rights, monitor land policies and violations, advocate, campaign and seek redress for land-related violations.

Chimps' survival of little concern to agribusiness

• Greenpeace
• 23 February 2015

Homes of chimpanzees destroyed by agribusiness companies – many foreign-owned – who are clearing vast tracts of rainforest throughout west and central Africa to make way for plantations producing palm oil, rubber and other commodities.

Fiji: $10m investment for rice industry

• Fiji Times
• 23 February 2015

Korean rice company, Grace Road Company Ltd, in Navua is looking at investing $10 million in the revitalisation of the rice industry in the country and in expanding its farm.

Somalis need to learn lessons from the legacy of land grabbing in Africa

• Mareeg
• 23 February 2015

Somalia’s farmland similar to its neighbouring countries is in danger of falling into the hands of transnational companies often in partnership with governments sometimes supported by the local elites.

Nestlé: Shedding a light and engaging on land rights

• Reuters
• 23 February 2015

The newly created International Land and Forest Tenure Facility, funded by Sweden, will start pilot initiatives to reform land tenure in developing countries.

Cambodian land conflicts surge

• The Diplomat
• 21 February 2015

In a statement released Thursday, The Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (Licadho) said it had registered 10,625 families newly affected by land conflicts in 2014, more than three times the number of families documented in 2013.

Tycoon-controlled oil palm groups in Indonesia

• TuK Indonesia
• 20 February 2015

25 large tycoon business groups control 3.1 million hectares of the total planted oil palm plantation in Indonesia. And another 2 million hectares of undeveloped land banks under control.