New interactive website shows villages affected by the SABL land grab
      A new interactive mapping website shows exactly which areas of PNG have been stolen under the guise of Special Agriculture and Business Leases and which villages have lost their rights to their land for at least the next THREE generations.
      • ActNow!
      • 04 Mar 2012
      How African governments allow farmers to be pushed off their land
      Up to 90% of sub-Saharan Africa's land area is currently untitled. Without legal owners, this land falls to the state, which makes it easy to lease to foreign investors
      • The Guardian
      • 02 Mar 2012
      Stop Land Grabbing – land to the tillers!
      La Via Campesina calls on all of its members and allies to organize actions around the world on April 17 to display massive popular resistance to land grabbing and highlight the struggle against corporate control over land and natural resources.
      • Via Campesina
      • 02 Mar 2012
      Global land rush
      IMF/World Bank paper looks at how foreign investors are buying up farmland in developing countries.
      • IMF
      • 02 Mar 2012
      Denmark's PKA rejects claims over 'land grabbing' in Africa
      PKA has defended its investments in African agricultural land, denying they are ethically dubious or constitute "land grabbing".
      • IPE
      • 02 Mar 2012
      Concern over rising number of land disputes in Tanzania
      Land conflicts pitting poor villagers against powerful investors now number more than 1,000 a year, according to research findings by Land Resources and Research Institute (HakiArdhi).
      • Daily Monitor
      • 02 Mar 2012
      Trigon begins dairy splurge with Estonia purchase
      The Black Sea farm operator, which on Tuesday said it was poised "to announce a number of new acquisitions by the end of May" in dairy, on Thursday unveiled the first, of the 4,160-hectare Vaatsa Agro business.
      • Agrimoney
      • 01 Mar 2012
      Cameroon: Jail time for not ceding land to the Chinese
      A farmer in eastern Cameroon has challenged a government ruling forcing him to cede his land to Chinese rice farmers.
      • RNW
      • 01 Mar 2012
      Speech to the Middle East Business Council
      IP-rich New Zealand is a logical partner for resource-rich Gulf states as a producer of food in places like Africa, says New Zealand's Minister of Foreign Affairs.
      • NZ Government
      • 01 Mar 2012
      Dwindling resources trigger global land rush
      A global scramble for land and mineral resources fuelled by billions of investment dollars is threatening the last remaining wilderness and critical ecosystems, destroying communities and contaminating huge volumes of fresh water.
      • IPS
      • 01 Mar 2012
      PNG landowners get negligible rent for SABL land leases: expert
      Papua New Guinea landowners are getting very little in the way of rent for vast tracts of land that have been leased out under controversial leases. Interview with Colin Filer.
      • Radio Australia
      • 01 Mar 2012
      How much foreign investment is too much?
      Senator Bill Heffernan and the managing director of the Australian Agricultural Company David Farley join The Business to discuss overseas investment in Australia.
      • ABC
      • 01 Mar 2012

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