China will grow our food

• City Press
• 23 November 2013

BEK-Pengxin Agritech aims to have more than one million hectares of land producing food and high-end by-products from agricultural estates in each of South Africa’s provinces.

Ethiopia: Saudi Star rice project feels the pinch

• The Reporter
• 23 November 2013

The Pakistani company MCG Consulting, which had been working with Saudi Star Agricultural Development Plc on a rice farm in the Gambella Regional State, has pulled out of the project.

Sarawak indigenous communities launch campaign against land grabbing

• Aliran
• 23 November 2013

Leaders of Sarawak indigenous groups gathered at a public forum in Kuching to launch an online signature campaign against land grabbing by private and government corporations in their communties.

Financiers of palm oil must stop deforestation and illegal activity

• FOE
• 21 November 2013

Illegal and harmful production of palmoil in Indonesia is continuing, reveals a new report released today by Friends of the Earth.

Where the buffalo shouldn't roam

• openDemocracy
• 20 November 2013

In Romania traditional livelihoods and rare animal species are about to give way to a bizarre, private project to introduce American buffalo. It's part of a rural exodus, and EU law will make future land grabs even easier.

Papua New Guinea losing independence

• Oakland Institute
• 19 November 2013

Papua New Guinea is the latest known victim in a modern era of land grabs orchestrated by foreign corporations according to an investigative report and a film.

Beefing up ties with Myanmar

• Financial Express
• 19 November 2013

Myanmar officials have proposed to Bangladesh to invest in agriculture in their country as it has a lot of arable lands for this purpose. The Myanmar government also said they were ready to give long-term lease of land to Bangladeshi entrepreneurs for agricultural purposes from which both the countries would benefit.

Global funds chase Australian farms

• Stock Journal
• 18 November 2013

Global fund managers and some of the world's largest pension funds have bought more than $1.5 billion of agricultural land in Australia over the past three years.

Fund manager Duxton buys farms in New Zealand

• Wall Street Journal
• 17 November 2013

Duxton Asset Management is buying a stake in seven sheep and cattle farms even as it voiced concern over the country’s system of regulating foreign investment.

Indonesia’s forest communities victims of ‘legal land grabs’

• Jakarta Globe
• 16 November 2013

Communities are finding that ancestral lands are slipping into the hands of foreign companies for oil palm cultivation, as demand for the product grows in Europe, India and China.

The gender and equity implications of land-related investments on land access and labour and income-generating opportunities

• FAO
• 16 November 2013

Three FAO reports published in 2013 looking at Lao PDR, Zambia and Ghana

Big ag deal goes largely unnoticed

• Financial Review
• 15 November 2013

Late on Wednesday night an Australian trust backed by Swiss, Danish and US fund managers agreed to pay more than $200 million for 12,000 hectares of almond groves in northern Victoria.