Residents told to support Kwale sugar firm

• The Star
• 22 January 2015

Senator urges residents to stop burning sugar cane of Kenyan-Mauritian company accused of taking lands away from locals.

Beware fake land investments in Australia

• Every Investor
• 22 January 2015

NeglectAssist is warning private investors to watch out for exotic Australian land investments promising both security and high returns.

Rwanda: Canadian firm acquires licence, to grow stevia plant on 1,000 hectares

• New Times
• 22 January 2015

The Ministry of Trade and Industry (Minicom) has signed an agreement with SteviaLife, a Canadian firm, that will see the latter promote the production and export of stevia plant.

Investment fund pours cash into cleaner, greener fish farming

• NPR
• 22 January 2015

Aqua-Spark, a new sustainable aquaculture fund, has invested in a tilapia operation in Mozambique called Chicoa Fish Farm that the fund hopes will be a model fish farm for all of sub-Saharan Africa.

US: Fight foreign ownership of Wisconsin farmland (Part 2)

• Agri-View
• 22 January 2015

The foreign-ownership debate is relatively recent and, as noted below, it is not at all clear who is seeking to repeal the existing legal restrictions on the foreign ownership of Wisconsin farmland.

Africa's land and seed laws under attack

• AFSA/GRAIN
• 22 January 2015

The lobby to industrialise food production in Africa is changing seed and land laws across the continent to serve agribusiness corporations.

Private firms control 1.8 mln hectares of economic land concessions in Cambodia: officials

• Xinhua
• 21 January 2015

Some 228 companies are currently possessing about 1.8 million hectares of economic land concessions in Cambodia.

Leaked report says World Bank violated own rules in Ethiopia

• ICIJ
• 20 January 2015

Internal watchdog finds link between World Bank financing and Ethiopian government's mass resettlement of indigenous group

That boiling tension in Sahn-Malen

• New Citizen
• 20 January 2015

Tensions keep mounting between the all-powerful SOCFIN Agricultural Company and people of the Sahn-Malen chiefdom in the Pujehun District.

Tanzania: Ministry ordered to recover 3,000ha at Saadani Park

• Guardian (Tanzania)
• 20 January 2015

Parliamentary committee orders Ministry of Lands to recover 3,000 hectares of land the latter had sold to a Swedish company - EcoEnergy Ltd in Bagamoyo District, Coast Region.

Edo’s goal to become Nigeria's food basket

• This Day
• 20 January 2015

As major investors like Dangote and makers of Indomie Noodles, Dufil, move massive investments into Nigeria's Edo State, the Commissioner for Agriculture says the state is set to take over as the nation’s food basket.

Licensed to grab: How international investment rules undermine agrarian justice

• TNI
• 20 January 2015

Investor-state dispute settlement clauses in trade treaties give investors far-reaching protection, reinforcing the notion of land as a commodity.