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Can big money fix a broken food system?
- Civil Eats
- 15 August 2017
Financial services firms are increasingly directing investor dollars into regenerative agriculture and other systemic food projects in the US, although not without risks
International investment blamed for violence and oppression in Sarawak
- Mongabay
- 15 August 2017
NGOs in Sarawak and around the world report failures by the Sarawak government to uphold indigenous land rights, and failures by international banks and investors to ensure their investments are conflict-free.
Samsung: get out of conflict palm oil!
- SumOfUs
- 15 August 2017
Samsung subsidiary announced last week that it will be forming a joint venture with Korean-Indonesian agribusiness company, Korindo which was recently exposed for burning and clearing tens of thousands of hectares of Indonesia's rainforest for palm oil and timber production.
Chinese livestock firm taps up Southeast Asia
- Global meat news
- 14 August 2017
A leading Chinese livestock and meat processing firm wants to tap supply of cattle from south-east Asia, with a cattle quarantine and slaughtering hub planned for the city of Ruili, on the border with Myanmar.
French company relocates investment plant over land dispute
- Addis Fortune
- 12 August 2017
The Oromia Investment Commission faces a challenge in relocating 600 farmers from the 335ha of land leased to European Food and Cattle Plc in East Shoa, Ethiopia.
MP da Grilagem: Temer’s land grabbing bill
- Los Despojados
- 12 August 2017
The new Brazil legislation, dubbed MP da grilagem (land-grabbing bill) will loosen regulations on land legalisation, essentially legalises grilagem, which refers to the historically specific enclosures or land grabs that have been occurring in Brazil since colonial times.
“I became victimised because my land was grabbed, and now I’ve been put in prison.”
- Global Witness
- 11 August 2017
There were dramatic scenes outside Phnom Penh court this week as one of Cambodia’s most iconic activists, Tep Vanny lost an appeal to overturn her two and a half year jail sentence.
Meet the S. Korean companies destroying Indonesia’s virgin rainforest
- Korea Expose
- 11 August 2017
Subsidiaries of prominent South Korea’s conglomerates including POSCO and Samsung, plus South Korean-owned Indonesian conglomerate Korindo Group, have been cutting down primary forest to make way for oil palm plantations.
Japanese traders eye Davao agri investments
- Manila Bulletin
- 10 August 2017
Davao City Investment Promotions Center (DCIPC) chief Lemuel Ortonio met with a group of Japanese investors to discuss available areas for investment in Davao thriving agriculture sector.
West Australia: Crop downsizing for Chinese group
- West Australian
- 10 August 2017
The Beidahuang Group is rumoured to have leased out the majority of its 85,000 ha of WA farmland purchased or leased in a $200 million spending spree five years ago
Harassed by palm oil company, Thai village defends land
- Al Jazeera
- 09 August 2017
Villagers of Klong Sai Pattana, Thailand say palm oil company responsible for targeted killings and harassment of their community.
The march against land grabs
- This Day Live
- 09 August 2017
Civil Society Organisations in Edo State, Nigeria under the umbrella of Coalition for Protection of the Environment, recently staged a protest against land grabbing and deforestation.