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Narco cash laundered into large-scale agriculture in Central America
- IDM
- 30 May 2017
A new study comparing forest loss and cocaine busts supports the theory that drug money is being laundered into large-scale agriculture in Central America.
A critical look at the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NAFSN) in Senegal
- CCIC
- 30 May 2017
Report finds no evidence that NAFSN’s approach of partnering with the private sector is effective in reducing poverty, improving food security and nutrition, or addressing the challenges faced by women
Canadian pension giant backs Corrigan’s Webster
- Australian
- 30 May 2017
Legendary waterfront warrior Chris Corrigan could soon have one of the world’s top investors — Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board — as the main shareholder in his Australian listed agricultural company, Webster Limited.
Land rights now! A loud calling from the homeless and destitute
- Maravi Post
- 29 May 2017
A recent visit to the district of Salima uncovered how a senior chief displaced poor families when she made shabby land deals with the Dutch company Malawi Mangoes Limited, which is backed by the World Bank and the FMO of the Netherlands.
Zambia land grab: Chiefs' land sale sparks national outrage
- Al Jazeera
- 29 May 2017
Al Jazeera investigates how land is being sold and people displaced to make way for agribusiness in Zambia, putting many Zambians at risk of becoming squatters on their own land.
After years of taking on a sugar company, Preah Vihear activist tries hand as CNRP candidate
- Phnom Phen Post
- 29 May 2017
Resistance to the Chinese sugar company Rui Feng is now embodied in Khum Rany, the 27-year-old Cambodia National Rescue Party commune chief candidate, who has staked her campaign on the issue.
Chinese spend $1.2bn on Australian agriculture
- Farmers Journal
- 28 May 2017
Chinese investors ramped up their investment in Australian agriculture last year, spending $1.2bn on farms and agribusinesses, a new report from KMPG and the University of Sydney has revealed.
Langrabbing breeds hunger, resistance
- Bulatlat
- 26 May 2017
New book “Land Grabbing Cases in the Philippines: Greed, Hunger, and Resistance” by the Philippine Network of Food Security Programmes (PNFSP) discusses several local case studies.
Gendered impacts of large-scale land acquisitions in Western Ethiopia
- RRI
- 26 May 2017
Study of cases of large-scale land deals in Ethiopia finds range of negative impacts on local families and women in particular, including reduced access to land for farming and grazing, outmigration, and reduced availability of forest products.
Farmland Partners may buy land in Canada, but rules out Scottish deal
- Agrimoney
- 26 May 2017
Farmland Partners is investigating a land purchase in Canada, and looked at farms in Scotland too, in its quest to exploit global farm price growth it sees continuing, driven by the quest to meet food demand.
Villagers occupy land in stand-off
- Khmer Times
- 25 May 2017
More than 200 villagers in Svay Rieng province, Cambodia confronted by the police as they tried to occupy land at the centre of a long-running dispute. NK Venture special was granted permission to build a sugar plantation on the 670 hectares in 2010, but it has still done nothing with the land.
The pros and cons of commercial farming models in Africa
- The Conversation
- 24 May 2017
Colonialism brought large-scale farming to Africa. Now, after several decades of independence, and with investor interest growing, African governments are once again promoting large plantations and estates. But the new corporate interest in African agriculture has been criticised as a “land grab”.