Uzbekistan offers 20,000 hectare land to farmers, firms
      Under an MoU signed between Gujarat Agro Industries Corporation and the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Uzbek government has offered the Indian company around 20,000 ha of land for farming
      • DNA India
      • 23 January 2019
      Major foreign company to sell out investment amid troubling conditions
      Sime Darby has put up its oil plantation in Liberia on sale after failing to acquire all 220,000 hectares of land the government promised it as stated in a concession agreement signed about a decade ago.
      • FrontPageAfrica
      • 23 January 2019
      Brazilian government split on land ownership law
      Environmentalists and communities fear the consequences of changing 2010 foreign ownership regulations on farmland.
      • Dialogo Chino
      • 22 January 2019
      Govt. must publish full SABL list
      ACT NOW! is demanding Papua New Guinea government to immediately publish a full list of SABLs current status. SABL is one of the world’s biggest illegal land grabs, and now more than 5-years after PNG government promised to cancel the SABL, people are still waiting to hear which leases have been cancelled.
      • ActNow PNG
      • 22 January 2019
      Global asset and risk manager receives Guernsey Green Fund designation
      Insight Investment received a Guernsey Green Fund accreditation for its farmland fund, the Global Farmland Fund Limited (GFF), which invests in farming projects worldwide
      • International Investment
      • 21 January 2019
      Belgian human rights defender illegally expulsed from Cameroon
      Cameroon’s top human rights body condemns human rights violations committed against a member of a local farmers association (OFFGO) embroiled in land conflicts with an influential Cameroon businessman
      • CED
      • 21 January 2019
      UNAC press release on the Prosavana programme
      Mozambique's national peasant organisation UNAC dissociates itself from a press release issued by the Civil Society Platforms of the provinces of Nampula, Zambezia and Niassa, in relation to the Master Plan of the Prosavana programme.
      • UNAC
      • 21 January 2019
      Chinese investors protest against new crackdown on investment
      Australia's foreign investment regulator no longer believes private companies in China are free of Communist Party control, and plans on subjecting Chinese takeovers and deals, such as those for farmland, to more screening on national security grounds.
      • AFR
      • 18 January 2019
      Cambodia: Chinese firm to invest in cotton plantations
      Chinese firm Jiangsu Lianfa is now crop testing in Pursat province, in the country’s west, and will start growing cotton on 180 hectares of land if test results are satisfactory.
      • Khmer Times
      • 18 January 2019
      Lao protest villager freed, 11 still held
      Lao authorities have released a villager held since 2017 for protesting the loss of land awarded by the government to a Vietnamese rubber company, but 11 others remain in detention, with another reported to have died in custody last year.
      • RFA
      • 18 January 2019
      UN challenges PNG govt over illegal land grabbing
      The United Nations has accused the Papua New Guinea government of racial discrimination against its own people over its failure to stop foreign companies using SABL leases to illegally occupy customary land.
      • Loop
      • 18 January 2019
      Kachin’s plantation curse
      Illegally banana plantations backed by obscure nexus of Chinese investors are making quick profits for some, but fuelling land conflict and environmental degradation in Kachin province, Myanmar.
      • Frontier Myanmar
      • 17 January 2019

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