Institutions are blazing a trail in CIS farming

• Moscow Times
• 02 December 2013

Interest in farming from a new class of institutional investors — including hedge, endowment, pension, private equity and sovereign wealth funds — has surged.

Interview — Violent corporate land grabbing in Papua New Guinea

• Free City Radio
• 01 December 2013

Violent corporate land grabbing is driven by logging corporations operating with little oversight in some of the world’s largest rainforests, all with the direct complicity of many politicians.

China accused of stealth land grab over Mozambique's great rice project

• The Ecologist
• 30 November 2013

China led the reclamation of the largest abandoned rice farm in Mozambique, with the blessing of the authorities. But now the company involved is accused of land grabbing and displacing thousands.

China institute seeks to boost rice production

• Business Daily
• 29 November 2013

An investor is seeking to partner with the Bunyala Irrigation Scheme to improve rice production in the area to boost food security in Kenya.

Land grab: Foreign firms drive Cambodians from farms

• Der Spiegel
• 27 November 2013

Human rights groups claim German taxpayer money is used to fund a program that benefits land grabbers.

How much African land is the UK leasing?

• Guardian
• 27 November 2013

The UK is the fourth largest investor in the world in African land - but how much does it have and what is it using it for?

Land grabbing and forced evictions in Ethiopia

• ASO
• 26 November 2013

In Ethiopia, where pastoralists and indigenous communities are displaced and evicted from their traditional lands amidst widespread human rights abuses, history is repeating itself.

Ethiopia’s farm investment plans falter on flood plain

• Bloomberg
• 26 November 2013

Karuturi, like many other large-scale investors, underestimated the complexity of opening land for large-scale commercial agriculture.

Cameroon permits trimmed palm oil project by US firm Herakles

• Reuters
• 26 November 2013

Cameroon President Paul Biya has given final approval to New York venture capital firm Herakles Capital to start work on a 20,000 hectares palm oil plantation, despite opposition from some locals and conservation groups.

Jenaan changes Egypt strategy to wheat for local market

• Reuters
• 25 November 2013

Jenaan, which has agricultural investments from Spain to Ethiopia, said it changed its policy in part because it had been losing money in Egypt and in part due to advice from the government of Abu Dhabi.

US farming investors look to West Australia for land purchases

• ABC
• 25 November 2013

An American grain consultant says there's a lot of interest from the United States farming sector in investing in West Australian agriculture.

China reaps rewards of farm plunge

• West Australian
• 23 November 2013

The writing is on the wall for anyone who doubts China's plans to invest billions of dollars for a big stake in WA agriculture.