Large land deals reportedly fruitless

• Capital
• 26 Mar 2014

A new report by the International Institute for Environment and Development about large-scale land deals in Ethiopia states that allocating land to investors has not shown a lot of benefits.

“We will not cede our land to the Italians’ tractors”

• La Stampa
• 25 Mar 2014

Senegalese herders resist a project with very obscure objectives

COFCO buys 51% of Nidera

• World Grain
• 24 Mar 2014

COFCO's purchase of Dutch trader and farm operator Nidera is the largest ever international acquisition in the history of the Chinese agricultural industry.

The best long-term real estate investment: Farmland

• CNBC
• 24 Mar 2014

As in many emerging markets, farmland investing in Bulgaria is essentially a consolidation play.

Olam boosts rice farming

• This Day
• 24 Mar 2014

Olam's Nigerian subsidiary has completed arrangements to expand its rice plantation in Nasarawa State from 3,000 ha to 6,000 ha.

Philippines: Malaysian firm to turn land around Maguindanao massacre site into plantation

• Inquirer
• 22 Mar 2014

Univex will invest $10 million to convert lands around the site of the 2009 Maguindanao massacre into a banana plantation and agricultural complex

Is Liberia's president going cold on the palm oil industry?

• Reuters
• 21 Mar 2014

Does a recent decision by Sirleaf signal a change of heart for a leader who has signed 30% of Liberia’s land over to foreign investors - with 1.5 million acres for palm oil companies?

Governing the land rush in Africa

• The Broker
• 21 Mar 2014

CIFOR scientist argues that failure to accept large-scale farmland investments as a new economic reality in Africa will hold back the development of effective institutional and regulatory frameworks.

Three companies to be split-off from Lithuanian Invalda

• Baltic Course
• 21 Mar 2014

17 companies owned by NASDAQ traded Invalda LT, holding about 3,000 ha to be transferred to new company INVL Baltic Farmland.

African govts give away continent’s natural heritage, acre by acre

• East African
• 21 Mar 2014

A look at recent mega land deals in Africa reveals a trend dubbed a ‘dangerous grab’ of the resource upon which the continent’s poor people depend for survival.

Brazilian multinationals accused of 'slave labour' in Angola

• Africa Review
• 19 Mar 2014

Odebrecht notified by the Brazilian Public ministry of allegations of slave labour conditions at its 32,000 ha Biocom sugarcane operation.

“Global efforts to curb deforestation are failing”: The Palangka Raya declaration on deforestation and the rights of forest peoples

• REDD-Monitor
• 19 Mar 2014

Last week representatives of communities, indigenous peoples and NGOs met in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia to discuss deforestation and the rights of forest peoples.