UK

Vast hidden profits: from Asia's palm oil giants to a tiny British tax haven
- The Observer
- 10 May 2014
Indonesian court helps to tear aside the veil of secrecy under which huge corporations operate in UK-linked tax havens
Co-op's £140m farms sale aimed at Chinese buyers
- The Guardian
- 06 May 2014
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.
The great British farmland boom
- Wall St Daily
- 21 April 2014
Farmland is now one of the UK’s greatest money makers. In 2013, overseas buyers accounted for 8% of UK farmland sales.
L’expansion des plantations d’huile de palme stoppée au Liberia
- Basta!
- 27 Mar 2014
Des villageois ont fait reculer de puissantes multinationales, et cela se passe au Liberia.
African Land Limited claiming victory but High Court judgement says otherwise
- Daily Mirror
- 21 February 2014
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”.
British envoy cautions on land investments in Burma
- Irrawaddy
- 27 January 2014
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.
Land governance programme map
- Donor Platform
- 16 January 2014
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.
Featherstone: G8 land deal to boost land rights in Ethiopia
- DFID
- 09 December 2013
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.
Tanzania: Govt pledges to continue supporting Rubada
- Tanzania Daily News
- 03 December 2013
The government pledges to continue supporting Rufiji Basin Development Authority (RUBADA) in its endeavour to encourage large scale plantations in the country
How much African land is the UK leasing?
- Guardian
- 27 November 2013
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?
Les britanniques vont réaliser 12 fermes de 36000 vaches laitières à Ghardaia
- Maghreb Emergent
- 10 November 2013
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.
Feronia Inc. announces US$25 million private placement led by CDC, the UK government's development finance institution
- Marketwire
- 08 November 2013
CDC will directly hold 27.5% of the issued and outstanding common shares of Feronia, a large-scale commercial farmland operator in the DRC