Papua New Guinea losing independence
    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.
    • Oakland Institute
    • 19 November 2013
    Beefing up ties with Myanmar
    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.
    • Financial Express
    • 19 November 2013
    Global funds chase Australian farms
    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.
    • Stock Journal
    • 18 November 2013
    Le nouveau code d'investissement, une mauvaise copie de l'actuel!
    La possibilité offerte par le projet du Code d’investissement aux étrangers d’entrer dans le capital des sociétés propriétaires des terres agricoles constitue une atteinte à la sécurité alimentaire de la Tunisie.
    • WMC
    • 18 November 2013
    Terres volées d’Ethiopie
    Quelle que soit la finalité — production agricole ou investissement financier —, de ces accaparements des terres, les bénéfices échappent presque toujours aux communautés locales. L’exemple de l’Ethiopie est emblématique.
    • Monde Diplomatique
    • 18 November 2013
    Los oscuros intereses de China sobre las tierras argentinas
    Luego del desastre ecológico, China necesita urgentemente tierras para cultivar sus alimentos y ya puso un pie sobre Argentina.
    • La Gran Época
    • 17 November 2013
    Fund manager Duxton buys farms in New Zealand
    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.
    • Wall Street Journal
    • 17 November 2013
    Indonesia’s forest communities victims of ‘legal land grabs’
    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.
    • Jakarta Globe
    • 16 November 2013
    The gender and equity implications of land-related investments on land access and labour and income-generating opportunities
    Three FAO reports published in 2013 looking at Lao PDR, Zambia and Ghana
    • FAO
    • 16 November 2013
    Big ag deal goes largely unnoticed
    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.
    • Financial Review
    • 15 November 2013
    Agribusiness investor Zeder deepens its roots in Zambia
    The deal was struck through Zeder's existing investment in that country - its 73.4%-owned commercial farming venture, Chayton Africa
    • Business Day
    • 14 November 2013
    Bolloré en Afrique, la saga judiciaire
    Le groupe Bolloré, expert patenté des poursuites en diffamation et autres intimidations permettant de bâillonner toute critique, alimente à nouveau l’actualité judiciaire. Mais, cette fois-ci, pas uniquement à son profit.
    • Survie
    • 14 November 2013

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