• Land grabbing, still a huge problem in Eastern Europe
    • EurActiv
    • 24 November 2014

    The EU is currently witnessing a massive land grab, which has a direct impact on 25 million of its citizens, changing the way lands are being managed and how food is being produced.

  • Zambia: TALMED to invest $7m in Mpongwe farm
    • Zambia Daily Mail
    • 24 November 2014

    TALMED International Zambia Limited has set aside about US$7 million to establish a commercial farm on 5,272 hectares in Mukumpu area to produce soya beans, maize and wheat .

  • Colombia: manotazo
    • El Espectador
    • 22 November 2014

    Por más que se le den vueltas y revueltas al tema, es incomprensible cómo el Gobierno impulsa el proyecto de ley 133, sabiendo, como sabe, que los conflictos agrarios desde hace más de un siglo giran alrededor de los baldíos.

  • Congo plantation improvement plan follows TRF investigation
    • Reuters
    • 21 November 2014

    One of Africa’s largest palm oil investors announces plans to improve social infrastructure, a week after a Reuters investigation found that its poorly paid plantation workers were living in dilapidated homes with poor social services.

  • Terra Firma to sell Aus beef stake
    • Financial Review
    • 21 November 2014

    London-based private equity titan Terra Firma is mulling a partial sale of Australia's largest privately owned beef producer, after being approached by several Chinese companies.

  • Why Wall Street investors and Chinese firms are buying farmland all over the world
    • Vox
    • 21 November 2014

    A new study in Environmental Research Letters finds that at least 126 countries are now involved in purchasing or selling global farmland.

  • Canada: Gov’t must address land investment deals
    • Western Producer
    • 21 November 2014

    The aggressive attempts of investment concerns to acquire large tracts of Saskatchewan farmland should be among the issues addressed in the fall sitting of the Saskatchewan legislature.

  • Hard Facts, episoe 8 "HM"
    • TV4
    • 21 November 2014

    Sweden's TV4 investigates the multinational retail clothing company H&M's possible involvement in landgrabbing in Ethiopia.

  • « Aujourd’hui, le Mali est confronté à une mauvaise gouvernance foncière »
    • Nouvel Horizon
    • 21 November 2014

    La privatisation des régimes fonciers fait une incise dans les modes de gouvernance foncière, même si le mode dominant reste celui des régimes fonciers coutumiers, hybridés ou dégénérés.

  • Salim preempts San Miguel, ties up with Malaysia’s Kuok
    • Manila Standard
    • 20 November 2014

    First Pacific's partnership with Kuok may have virtually killed San Miguel’s planned $1-billion joint agriculture project with the Malaysian tycoon.

  • MoU signed for agricultural investment fund
    • SUNA
    • 20 November 2014

    Sudan signs an MOU for the establishment of an agriculture investment fund with a Lebanese company owned by Fras Badra that is pursuing an 87,000 ha alfalfa project.

  • Palm oil interest surges in Papua New Guinea
    • Mongabay
    • 19 November 2014

    As the lands of traditional palm oil powerhouses like Indonesia and Malaysia have become saturated with plantations, companies looking to profit have turned to areas of tropical forest elsewhere – like Papua New Guinea.

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