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EIA cracks down on tardy investors
- Africa Intelligence
- 10 January 2014
The Ethiopian Investment Agency (EIA) has withdrawn 3,000 investment permits that it had previously granted to Ethiopian and foreign companies, including Karuturi Global Ltd.
Position of ADECRU on the visit of Prime Minister of Japan in Mozambique
- ADECRU
- 10 January 2014
President Armando Emilio Guebuza and PM Shinzo Abe must respect the legitimate and sovereign demands of the people of Mozambique, Brazil and Japan and suspend ProSavana and the G8 New Alliance.
What's driving the palm oil industry's human rights abuses and environmental destruction? Just follow the money
- FOEi
- 09 January 2014
Palm oil is cheap because it’s produced by a global industry built on land grabbing, human rights abuses and environmental devastation.
Middle East investors ask Alta. man to help buy farmland
- Western Producer
- 09 January 2014
Investors from Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates have asked Ed Smith, a southern Alberta hay exporter, to help them buy land in North America. 
US palm oil company fined $4.6m in discrimination suit
- Mongabay
- 08 January 2014
Herakles Farms has been ordered to pay $4.6 million by a court in Cameroon over alleged discrimination in its hiring practices.
'Land grabbing': is conservation part of the problem or the solution?
- IIED
- 07 January 2014
Land can also be ‘grabbed’ for ‘green’ purposes, triggering conflicts that undermine potential.
Foreign investors target palm industry in Mindanao
- Philippines News Agency
- 07 January 2014
Palm oil cluster industry Chairman Raul Nuevas said most of these foreign investors are looking for “big contiguous area” of 100,000 ha that they can lease for 100 years.
Agrokultura reveals 'interest' in its Ukraine unit
- Agrimoney
- 07 January 2014
Stockholm-listed Agrokultura said that it had received "interest" in its Ukrainian business, which harvested 69,100 hectares of crops last year.
Sierra Leone farmers reject land grab for oil palm plantation
- GRAIN
- 07 January 2014
Police in Sierra Leone open fire on villagers gathered to express their grievances over the lease of 6,500 hectares of land to the Socfin Agricultural Company. Only the latest incident in a deteriorating situation.
Thousands turn out for Yangon protest
- AFP
- 06 January 2014
Protester Tun Lin Aung said about 200 farmers from his village in the Irrawaddy Delta region were in prison for trespassing due to land disputes.
Farming without fields
- The Economist
- 04 January 2014
Los Grobo does not own a single shovel or acre. Instead it leases machinery and land from others. This outsourcing model is now used for nearly 60% of farmland in Argentina.
Saudi company to invest in Sudan agri, animal projects
- Saudi Gazette
- 04 January 2014
The executive director of the Saudi company Iktifaa announced that his company will establish agricultural and animal projects in Sudan’s state of Sennar and the Northern state to produce grain and cattle feed.