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Gabon: The battle over palm oil
- African Business Magazine
- 24 January 2017
The controversy surrounding palm oil cultivation involving agricultural trading company Olam International has intensified over the last two months.
POSCO Daewoo launches agribusiness in Myanmar
- Korea Times
- 22 January 2017
According to a POSCO Daewoo official, Sunday, Korea's largest trading affiliate under POSCO group has secured construction and investment approval from the Myanmar government to build a rice processing complex (RPC) in Twante.
Colombian human rights leader assassinated
- Telesur
- 20 January 2017
Afro-Colombian human rights activist Emilsen Manyoma, an outspoken critic of the displacement of local communities by international agribusiness interests, is the latest victim in a wave of attacks against human rights defenders.
Does the end of high food prices mark the end of the global land rush?
- Reuters
- 18 January 2017
FAO expert says it would be wrong to conclude that investors’ interest in agriculture has vanished and developing countries and donors should do more to ensure responsible investment and confront domestic “land grabbers".
Watch: Cambodia’s Kuoy in land conflict with Chinese company
- Radio Free Asia
- 17 January 2017
The China-backed sugar plantation is clearing land and forest, jeopardizing the survival of the indigenous Kuoy in Cambodia.
The new superpowers in the global land grab and how they operate
- The Conversation
- 17 January 2017
Land deals are implemented – and often initiated – by sub-national states which are in competition with each other to win major investments.
Vulture funds closing in on hundreds of farms
- Farm Ireland
- 17 January 2017
Hundreds of farms in Ireland face repossession this year as so-called vulture funds swoop on indebted properties, agri-finance experts have warned.
LandBank, JICA ink ¥4.9-B agribusiness project for Mindanao conflict areas
- Manila Bulletins
- 17 January 2017
Land Bank of the Philippines (LandBank) and the government of Japan have signed a loan agreement worth almost ¥5-billion to fund a five-year project that aims to jumpstart agribusiness investments in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
Armed with apps and crops, women lead battle to save Senegal's shrinking farmland
- TRF
- 16 January 2017
Women in Senegal are fighting back against land grabbing, from young coders designing a mobile app to help women buy land to civil society groups rallying female villagers to stand up to multinationals
Crookes Brothers might be ripe for the picking
- Financial Mail
- 16 January 2017
The stage for an acquisition of Crookes could already be set thanks to the involvement of African agriculture-focused UK private equity firm SilverStreet Capital as the key shareholder through its Silverlands (SA) Plantations investment vehicle.
Land grabs are partly to blame for skyrocketing violence in Central America
- Huffington Post
- 16 January 2017
Global firms and local elites are taking land from farmers, which pushes them to cities, where jobs are few.
Cassava pact with Chinese firm 'a big boost'
- Daily News
- 16 January 2017
Tanzania has entered into a $US 1 billion partnership agreement on commercialisation of cassava farming and processing with Tanzania Agricultural Export Processing Zone Limited and Epoch Agriculture from China.