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NZ Super Fund takes stake in Australian beef stud
- NZ Herald
- 04 October 2017
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has made its first offshore farm investment, taking a stake in Australian beef stud Palgrove for an undisclosed amount.
World Bank names key principles of farmland turnover bill
- Interfax
- 04 October 2017
"The moratorium on agriculture land sales is a major impediment to attracting investment and unlocking productivity in Ukraine's agricultural sector," says World Bank.
Chinese investment in farmland soars as politicians urge closer eye on foreign ownership
- ABC
- 04 October 2017
Chinese investment in Australian farmland has risen over the past year from about 1.5 million hectares to almost 14.5 million hectares.
Land grabs cause lingering SE Asia conflicts: report
- ABS-CBN
- 04 October 2017
Three-quarters of around 50 conflicts that have erupted in Southeast Asia since 2001 pitting mining, logging or agribusiness giants against indigenous peoples protesting land grabs are still lingering today, researchers reported Tuesday.
Southeast Asia is world's hotspot for land disputes: report
- Nikkei
- 03 October 2017
88 per cent of land disputes in Southeast Asia are not resolved puts the region above the 61 per cent global average, according to the research, which covers land disputes dating from 2001.
MITC calls for responsible agriculture investment to avert economic tumoil
- Maravi Post
- 03 October 2017
The Malawi Investment and Trade Centre this week emphasized on the need for the public to embrace responsible agriculture investment if Malawi is to avert economic misfortunes it is encountering
Sugar firm denies role in suspending NGO
- Phnom Penh Post
- 02 October 2017
A sugar company involved in a land dispute in Kampong Speu province rebuffed suggestions that it is in part responsible for the temporary shuttering of land rights NGO Equitable Cambodia.
Cameroon palm oil campaigner arrested in crackdown on activists
- Guardian
- 02 October 2017
Nasako Besingi has been jailed after opposing a US-funded palm-oil plantation and supporters say this is linked to Cameroon’s ‘anglophone crisis’
No sweet deal: Community resists Chinese sugarcane land grab
- PANAP
- 02 October 2017
“Before the company came to clear our lands, nobody in Prame ever experienced hunger,” villagers from Preah Vihear Province, Cambodia tell PANAP.
Karuturi contemplates legal recourse for loss in Ethiopia
- The Reporter
- 02 October 2017
Claiming to have made an investment of US$75M and created 4000 jobs, Karuturi is not only appealing for the release or re-export of its properties but to sue Ethiopian officials hereferred to as “responsible” for violations of rights of a foreign entity.
China now owns 10 times the amount of Australian land it did last year
- Brisbane Times
- 30 September 2017
The amount of Australian farm land owned by Chinese interests has surged tenfold in the past year, climbing above 14 million hectares or 2.5 per cent of all agricultural land.
Virginia Retirement System awards $150m farmland separate account
- IPE
- 29 September 2017
It is the first time the US pension fund has awarded a separate account for the asset class, although in February it announced it was investing $125m in International Farming Corporation’s US Farming Realty Trust III.