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Indonesian court helps to tear aside the veil of secrecy under which huge corporations operate in UK-linked tax havens

UK's Co-operative Group wants a single major corporate buyer for its portfolio of 15 British farms covering 17,000 hectares, and will not consider community buyouts.

Farmland is now one of the UK’s greatest money makers. In 2013, overseas buyers accounted for 8% of UK farmland sales.

Des villageois ont fait reculer de puissantes multinationales, et cela se passe au Liberia.

African Land Limited sold itself on the back of a promise that its rice farms in Sierra Leone could turn “a tidy profit of 15% a year”.

The UK’s business ambassador for agriculture and CEO of large-scale agriculture firm Velcourt Group, James Townshend, met with Burmese government officials and toured agricultural projects in the country.

On January 22 a comprehensive database on land and resource governance programmes funded by members of the Global Donor Working Group on Land will be presented during the AGA in Paris.

Governments of Ethiopia, UK, US and Germany sign land country partnership to work together to improve rural land governance for economic growth and to protect the land rights of local citizens in Ethiopia.

The government pledges to continue supporting Rufiji Basin Development Authority (RUBADA) in its endeavour to encourage large scale plantations in the country

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?

Ce projet présenté par des investisseurs irlandais et britanniques prévoit la création de 12 fermes de 3000 vaches laitières chacune réparties sur superficie de 120 000 ha et le développement de la filière fourragère en Algérie.

CDC will directly hold 27.5% of the issued and outstanding common shares of Feronia, a large-scale commercial farmland operator in the DRC