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Land grabbing for agriculture is causing conflict in southern, Sierra Leone
- Development Diary
- 17 Mar 2014
Farmers say Socfin Agricultural Company's plantation causes instability, fear, mistrust, poverty, and violence.
Govt to assess land concession viability
- Vientiane Times
- 17 Mar 2014
The Lao government has approved hundreds of thousands of hectares in concessions, but has yet to identify how many hectares of land investors have already used or whether they have followed their original proposals.
The complex world of big land deals
- ENSIA
- 17 Mar 2014
Can we minimize downsides and maximize benefits of transnational land investments?
Wall Street investors take aim at farmland
- Mother Jones
- 14 Mar 2014
Corporations are starting to buy up US farmland, especially in areas dominated by industrial-scale agriculture, like Iowa and California's Central Valley
Temasek subsidiary makes bid for Olam
- World Grain
- 14 Mar 2014
Singapore's Temasek is part of a consortium that is offering $2.1 billion cash for Olam, one of the world's largest farmland owners.
Geldof and Obasanjo on creating a better harvest for African agriculture
- HowWeMadeItInAfrica
- 13 Mar 2014
Former Nigerian president and notorious land grabber Olusegun Obasanjo and UK rock star Bob Geldof say "Africa needs large, commercial farms as well as small ones."
Guyana offers lands to help Caribbean regional food security
- Bernama
- 13 Mar 2014
Guyana's President Donald Ramotar says thet "the offer is still on the table" to all CARICOM countries to take advantage of Guyana's bountiful agricultural resources.
Q&A - DekelOil aiming to be profitable this year
- Proactive Investors
- 13 Mar 2014
Palm oil company DekelOil, which operates plantations and a mill in Ivory Coast, says it raised £700,000 through a share placing anchored by high profile Africa-focused fund Nubuke.
Vietnamese company after NT land for dragon fruit megafarm
- ABC
- 13 Mar 2014
The CT Group has revealed plans to grow up to 10,000 hectares of dragon fruit in Australia's Northern Territory.
S'pore developer pushes for business in Myanmar
- Straits Times
- 12 Mar 2014
Real estate developer Yoma Strategic Holdings is ramping up its push into Myanmar, including in agriculture where it has formed a holding in which the World Bank's IFC holds 20%.
EU, government still at odds over sugar farm compensation
- Cambodia Daily
- 11 Mar 2014
The Cambodian government and the European Union remained at odds last week over how to compensate families that have lost land to the country’s controversial sugar plantations and seemed to move closer to agreement on the need for an outside party to mediate.
Institutional investors set to increase direct ownership of real assets - Aquila
- Investment Europe
- 11 Mar 2014
A study commissioned by Aquila Capital reveals that institutional investors are to increase their direct ownership of real assets, including farmland, by 14%.