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Karuturi to start afresh in Ethiopia
- The Reporter
- 23 April 2018
Karuturi Agro Products PLC says it is about to recommence the troubled commercial farms it was forced to abandon in Ethiopia, last year, with a new 25,000 hectare lease.
Ghosts in the machine
- The Gecko Project
- 18 April 2018
Second installment of Indonesia for Sale, an in-depth series of articles on the corruption behind Indonesia’s deforestation and land rights crisis. Ghosts in the machine exposing land deals behind the downfall of Indonesia’s top judge.
Audio: Impacts of agriculture on Brazil’s Cerrado region
- Mongabay
- 18 April 2018
Mongabay journalists report on the impacts of the rapid expansion of agribusiness on the region’s environment and people.
Farm group opposes CAFOs, foreign-owned farmland
- News Tribune
- 18 April 2018
Supporters of family farming who oppose the rise of big-business agricultural practices in Missouri gathered to lobby legislators against concentrated animal feeding operations and foreign ownership of Missouri farmland
Japan's Nippon Life makes a US$92.5 million offshore farmland investment
- GAI
- 17 April 2018
Tokyo-based Nippon Life Insurance Company makes its first investment in a farmland investment fund through a US$92.5 million investment in an overseas farmland investment fund managed by Hancock Natural Resources Group
Campaign launch: Celebrating and defending customary land
- ActNow
- 17 April 2018
ACT NOW! launches a new multi-media campaign 'Celebrating and Defending Customary Land’-- the most valuable and important asset available to most Papua New Guineans.
How much land is in foreign hands?
- Times of Zambia
- 16 April 2018
The Zambia Land Alliance has challenged government to make public how much land is currently in the hands of foreigners.
Terra Firma seeks premium for 'Project Ribeye' Australian farm sale
- Reuters
- 13 April 2018
With first round bids due imminently, the high expectations could leave foreign bidders in the box seat, testing the government’s appetite for foreign ownership of sensitive assets less than two years after it rejected China-led bids for a major energy grid and agricultural company.
Malian farmers denounce land grabbing
- Ecofin
- 12 April 2018
A farmers' rights organization reports on a growing trend of land grabbing, and calls for a fast enforcement of the 2017 land law whose decrees were issued last month.
Chinese firm to study development potential of Bolaven Plateau
- Vientiane Times
- 10 April 2018
Laos government has authorised a Chinese firm to carry out a feasibility study in southern Laos, with a view to turning it into top agri-business and agri-tourism destination. Deputy Governor of Champassak province said the Chinese firm also intended to grow organic crops for export to China.
Rights in poorer nations must be upheld as Thai firms go abroad, activists say
- Reuters
- 10 April 2018
For the first time, plaintiffs from Cambodia have filed a class-action lawsuit against a Thai company after they were forcibly removed from their homes to make way for a sugarcane plantation
Landcorp goes with back-up offer in Jericho Station sale after Chinese buyer withdraws
- NZ Herald
- 10 April 2018
Landcorp Farming, the state-owned farmer trading as Pāmu Farms of New Zealand, has gone with a back-up bidder for its Jericho Station sheep and beef farm in Fiordland after the preferred foreign buyer withdrew.