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Olive oil: China hits the grove
- CIT
- 26 June 2013
Steep growth in Chinese olive oil consumption, unlikely to be met soon by a budding domestic supply, is encouraging investors to get hold of olive farms and processing plants in producing countries.
Guatemala's sugar cane land rush anything but sweet for corn growers
- Guardian
- 26 June 2013
Sugar cane and palm oil companies able to afford inflated rents are forcing Guatemala's smallholder farmers off their land.
Letter to MEPs on needed land policy reform
- TNI
- 25 June 2013
At the heart of the growing inequalities in Europe are the issues of land concentration and land grabbing. It is a critical subject and is having severe impacts on the prospects and viability of our communities.
European investments assist landgrabs in Liberia
- FOE
- 24 June 2013
European banks, pension funds and private equity funds have given financial assistance worth more than €450 million to Malaysian palm oil giant Sime Darby, responsible for environmental degradation and violations of national regulations in Liberia.
EmVest CEO Susan Payne makes case for Africa farmland
- Peoples Company
- 24 June 2013
Video presentation by EmVest CEO Susan Payne at the 2013 Land Investment Expo at the Sheraton West Des Moines Hotel.
Paraguayan indigenous community reoccupies territory after two decades of forced expulsion
- Real News
- 23 June 2013
Indigenous families in Paraguay have been living precariously on the side of a highway in the remote Chaco region for more than 20 years, ever since a German cattle rancher and the Paraguayan state illegally kicked them off of their ancestral lands.
Malaysia declares emergency in haze areas as Singapore improves
- Bloomberg
- 23 June 2013
Singapore yesterday sought “strong, firm, effective” action against Singaporean companies that may be involved in illegal burning in Indonesia that led to the city-state’s worst pollution on record.
Will the New Alliance help Africa's poor?
- Al Jazeera
- 21 June 2013
Among the concerns is that smallholder farmers could be pushed out of their land to make way for large, powerful international corporations.
Tanzania's agriculture revolution: land grabs or a welcome business boom?
- The Guardian
- 20 June 2013
Yamba has been warned by her local MP not to accept any offer by an investor for her "worthless" roadside scrubland. When the new road from Iringa to Dodoma is finished, it could be worth a fortune, he says.
An investment company tries its hand at farming
- Caixin
- 20 June 2013
China's Legend Holdings went on a buying binge, both at home and abroad, taking over a blueberry farm in Qingdao, a kiwi fruit company in Sichuan Province and five Chilean fruit companies.
US, Malaysia lead worldwide ‘land grabs’
- IPS
- 19 June 2013
Africa is the main target for “land grabs” by foreign investors, according to a new report on large-scale land acquisitions around the world released June 10.
African agricultural growth corridors and the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition: Who benefits, who loses?
- Econexus
- 19 June 2013
Governments, international finance institutions and global corporations are collaborating in major new projects in Africa to reorder land and water use and create industrial infrastructure over millions of hectares.