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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.
Investors wake up to ag value
- Farm Weekly
- 16 January 2017
Canadian investors - particularly pension funds - have led the way in changing Australian city money attitudes to agriculture.
Development of new horticultural area in Ethiopia
- Bloemisterij
- 13 January 2017
While Dutch ag investors get priority access to 1500 ha near Hawassa, their embassy is helping the Ethiopian government start a conversation with its discontented population.
The synthesis of the thirteen WFAL2016 world meeting workshops are now available
- WFAL
- 13 January 2017
Read the synthesis of the thematic sessions which took place on the 31st March, 1st and 2 April 2016 in Valencia, Spain, during the global forum of the World Forum on Access to Land and Natural Resources.
Rui Feng still clearing farmland, villagers say
- Phnom Penh Post
- 13 January 2017
China sugarcane company Rui Feng continued its campaign to clear disputed land in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia yesterday, even after a video of its employees seemingly trying to beat villagers surfaced online earlier this week.
Sugar company worn out by empty promises
- Cambodia Daily
- 12 January 2017
Some 100 farmers who have spent the past 11 days sleeping on land to guard it from bulldozers in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia are exhausted by empty promises from the government to solve their problem.