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Canada: Senate to investigate farmland ownership
- Manitoba Cooperator
- 26 October 2016
The Senate agriculture committee is launching a study into the ownership of Canadian farmland and the challenges that farmers face in expanding their operations.
Ethiopians who fled over land rights now face eviction from Calais "Jungle"
- Reuters
- 25 October 2016
People from Oromiya, a region at the heart of Ethiopia's industrialisation efforts, accuse the state of seizing their land and offering tiny compensation, before selling it on to companies, often foreign investors, at inflated prices.
Itochu to invest US$57.7m in bananas
- Produce Plus
- 25 October 2016
Itochu's $57.7m investment through its Dole business will include a 55 per cent increase of its 20,000 ha plantations in the Philippines by 2018
Dutch farmer on Ethiopia violence: 'I was terribly scared'
- Daily Mail
- 23 October 2016
After nearly a year of protests, demonstrators in Ethiopia turned their anger to foreign investors who they blame for occupying land appropriated by the government.
Follow the money to justice: new online tool
- IDI
- 21 October 2016
Online resource explains how to mine publicly available information to identify and analyze the companies, investors and other actors behind destructive projects.
Law in the natural resource squeeze: 'land grabbing', investment treaties and human rights
- Land Portal
- 20 October 2016
Lorenzo Cotula discusses highlights from his latest academic piece, in which he explores whether investment treaties protect 'land grab' deals, and how these impact the land rights of rural people.
Liberia: the growth of a new palm oil frontier
- Guardian
- 20 October 2016
Golden Veroleum Liberia is building one of the largest palm oil plantations in the civil-war scarred country, bringing jobs but dividing communities
Palm oil giant Golden Veroleum bulldozes religious sites in Liberia, protected by armed police
- Global Witness
- 20 October 2016
Palm oil giant Golden Veroleum has bulldozed religious sites in southeast Liberia and has paid police armed with assault rifles to protect its plantations, according to a new Global Witness exposé.
ICC will investigate environmental destruction as well as war crimes
- OpenDemocracy
- 19 October 2016
With land grabbing fast becoming one of the most pressing human rights issues of our time, the International Criminal Court has started to recognize that the guise of economic development can mask many crimes against humanity.
Global agriculture attracting greater levels of institutional investment
- Beef Central
- 19 October 2016
Preqin estimates that more than 100 unlisted agriculture/farmland-focused funds have closed since 2006, raising about $22 billion in aggregate capital.
Palm oil plantation in Cameroon: An opportunity to stop “the wrong project in the wrong place”
- EIA
- 19 October 2016
EIA releases today a video that shows how large-scale oil palm project has negatively impacted the lives of community members, threatened biodiversity hotspots, and failed to meet development promises to communities in the Southwest region of Cameroon.
Ethnic minority families claim violent evictions in Preah Vihear
- Phnom Penh Post
- 18 October 2016
Six ethnic Kuoy families were violently evicted from their homes in Preah Vihear over the weekend, with further evictions threatened for another 13 families.