The Gravitazz Continental Intiative and the Forum for African Investigative Reporters are offering fellowships to feature writers across Africa, who wish to undertake an investigation into underreported land transactions.
Farmland investments are outperforming stocks and investors are noticing, says Ding Xuedong, CEO of the China Investment Corporation
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NGOs in Germany accuse the public development agency DEG of promoting land grabbing in developing and newly industrialised countries and blames the German government for not taking the issue seriously.
GRAIN, the Oakland Institute and the World Rainforest Movement call on Herakles and the Cameroonian government to drop all charges against Nasako Besingi and his fellow activists and instead engage in good faith with local communities seeking to defend their lands.
"There is a big Swiss company buying up 5 per cent of our pastoral land. Japan and Australia both have invested plenty in New Zealand land and the northern Europeans are buying farms in the South Island. But do we hear anything about that?"
PNG court revokes two 99 year land titles awarded to Kuala Lumpur Kepong (KLK) of Malaysia following complaints of land grabbing by customary landowners in Collingwood Bay, Oro province.
Over the past few years Hassad Australia has amassed a property portfolio of 14 major wheat and sheep farms or clusters of properties across four states, covering 287,000ha.
New video from the "No to ProSAVANA" campaign, with English subtitles.
For private equity houses, pension funds and family offices, the sprawling farms of sub Saharan Africa are the new land of plenty.
Phoenix Africa CEO Paddy Docherty interviewed by the FT This is Africa, about frontier investing in Africa.
To end extreme poverty, support smallholder farmers -- not multinational agribusinesses
UK pensions funds and asset management companies potentially have up to £37 billion invested in ‘land grabs’ worldwide, according to a report published by Friends of the Earth.
