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Saravan approves concession for custard apple plantation
- Vientiane Times
- 18 May 2016
Saravan provincial authorities in Laos approve a 200 ha land concession to a Korean company which will grow custard apple and moringa for export
Thomson Reuters Foundation launches Place to put land and property rights on global news agenda
- Reuters
- 17 May 2016
Thomson Reuters Foundation today launched Place (Property, Land, Access, Connections, Empowerment), an innovative platform to boost coverage of land and property rights, one of the most under-reported issues worldwide.
Australia's $1 billion beef boom funded by foreign investment and super
- AFR
- 16 May 2016
Australia's cattle station sector is set to reach more than $1 billion-worth of deals in less than a year, with the two biggest sources of investment being the controversial areas of foreign investment and superannuation.
Dry weather forces BrasilAgro to slash corn sowings
- Agrimoney
- 16 May 2016
Land prices are up across Brazil, with prices in the Northeast up 7.5% over the past 12 month, BrasilAgro said.
Why Chinese agriculture engagement in Africa is not what it seems
- China File
- 16 May 2016
Based on new research in four African countries, Professor Ian Scoones says far from being on a land-grabbing spree in Africa, Chinese immigrant farmers and the deployment of Chinese agricultural technology and training programmes are having a positive impact.
#NoLandNoLife | Indonesia: PANAP conveys solidarity with Kampung Dadap’s struggle for land and livelihood
- PANAP
- 16 May 2016
We convey our firm solidarity with the people of Kampung Dadap in their struggle against the “PT Tangerang International City” (TIC) – a government backed massive reclamation project in Kampung Dadap, Tangerang Regency in Indonesia, and express our serious concern on the repression reportedly being committed against them.
Next steps to strengthen global land governance
- The Conversation
- 13 May 2016
Many see the voluntary guidelines as an important opportunity to address wider issues of land inequality, historical dispossession and agrarian change, rather than simply as a route to “responsible investment”
United Cacao responds to bid to remove company from London Stock Exchange
- Mongabay
- 13 May 2016
The company defends its Peruvian plantations amid uproar over alleged environmental and social impacts.
Namibia: Russian landlord in Panama Papers
- Namibian
- 13 May 2016
Russian billionaire Rashid Sardarov, who bought large tracts of land in Namibia, is among the long−serving clients of Mossack Fonseca, a disgraced law firm known for aiding the rich to hide their wealth in tax havens
Kazakh government invites opponents to discuss land reform
- Reuters
- 12 May 2016
Kazakhstan's government, facing a wave of unrest over farmland privatisation plans, invited some opponents of the reform to join a commission set up on Thursday to review it.
Companies run by ex-cricketer Phil Edmonds 'paid bribes to officials'
- Guardian
- 12 May 2016
Companies co-founded and run by Phil Edmonds, founder of leading African farmland investor Agriterra, paid “bribes” to African officials and have bought assets owned by secretive offshore structures, a campaign group has claimed.
Insight Investments taps head of farmland team
- P&I
- 10 May 2016
Tom McKeon was most recently CEO of Hassad Australia, the Doha-based Qatar Investment Authority’s food and agribusiness subsidiary.