Obtala Resources' own fruit plan further expands Morogoro operations

• Proactive Investors
• 13 October 2014

The land covers 204 hectares, is 235km from the port at Dar es Salaam and is next door to Obtala’s existing tomato, fruit and pepper farm.

Twiga Farm - the story of a Kenyan Land grab

• Pambazuka
• 10 October 2014

The collusion of local, national and international money and power is more and more legalizing the disowning of people of their lands in the name of economic growth, development or investment.

Ivory Coast on quest to become West Africa's rice bowl

• Reuters
• 10 October 2014

The government has signed investment agreements with foreign companies including France's Louis Dreyfus Commodities, Algeria's Cevital, Export Trading Group of Singapore and Switzerland's Ameropa.

Sime unit makes RM5.6bil conditional general offer for NBPOL

• The Star
• 10 October 2014

The offer for New Britain Palm Oil Ltd would give Sime Darby over 140,000 ha of oil palm and sugar plantations in Papua New Guinea, as wells as 28,000 ha of lands on which to expand.

Philippines: Local Palawaños stand strong against oil palm expansion

• Intercontinental Cry
• 09 October 2014

Oil palm development should never have been initiated in Palawan, the last ecological frontier of the Philippines

Westchester Group appoints Martin Davies to lead farmland investing programme in Europe

• propertyfundsworld
• 09 October 2014

Davies will be responsible for managing the European platform for Westchester, a TIAA-CREF majority-owned global agricultural asset manager, as well as building the firm’s direct farmland investment business in Europe.

Karuturi still going down

• TJN et al
• 09 October 2014

Karuturi Global Ltd, the Indian multinational that made its name in the global cut flower industry and recently acquired more than 300,000 ha in Ethiopia to produce food, is continuing its painful and massive decline.

Land grab complaint against ANZ filed with OECD

• Cambodia Daily
• 09 October 2014

NGOs have filed a new complaint against Australia’s ANZ Bank claiming it owes compensation to 681 Cambodian families who say their farms were illegally grabbed by a sugarcane plantation the bank helped to finance.

Chinese sugar plant participates to Madagascar's development

• Xinhua
• 09 October 2014

"China has a lot of things to share with Madagascar especially in the agricultural sector."

Tales of Grabland

• LJ4WA
• 08 October 2014

Thousands of small farmers protest against the Rivers State Government's appropriation of their ancestral farmlands to give to a Mexican company for the development of a banana plantation.

Report accuses India-born businessman of unchecked land grabbing across continents

• Down to Earth
• 08 October 2014

Sivasankaran’s land grabbing spree has threatened millions of livelihoods, says report

Big businesses attempt to muzzle critical reporting in India

• CPJ
• 07 October 2014

"My particular case is not just to intimidate me, but to silence all further reports on [Karuturi] and his company's operations in Africa," Acharya told CPJ.