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    • Kazakh leader evokes Ukraine as land protests spread
      • Reuters
      • 02 May 2016

      The protests were sparked by opposition to a legal overhaul that will allow the government to sell farmland to joint ventures, provided they are controlled by Kazakh residents, and lease it to foreigners for up to 25 years. Opponents of the new law, who staged their first protest in the city of Atyrau last Sunday, see the change as a threat to national security, especially after the government announced several agreements with neighboring China for agricultural projects.

    • Focus on Thursday court ruling over sale of troubled Karuturi
      • Business Daily
      • 01 May 2016

      After close to three years and many court cases in Nairobi and Nakuru, the curtains appear to be coming down on one of the world’s biggest players in the cut flower industry — Karuturi Limited — after its owners conceded to an application to wind it up.

    • Yerisiam Gua people of Papua face down land grabs and intimidation by palm oil company
      • FPP
      • 29 April 2016

      The company, which has most recently bulldozed the local community's sago palms, is a subsidiary of RSPO member Goodhope Asia Holdings, registered in Singapore and owned by Carson Cumberbatch PLC of Sri Lanka.

    • New Zealand: OIO re-opens review of farmland sale
      • NZ Herald
      • 29 April 2016

      The Overseas Investment Office has re-opened its review of the sale of Taranaki farmland to foreign investors after revelations the Argentinian owners were prosecuted for pollution and discharging toxic chemicals into a river in Buenos Aires.

    • Panama Papers: Uruguayan link to $6m New Zealand farm sale
      • Stuff
      • 29 April 2016

      The Panamanian trust set up by Mossack Fonseca to buy the Onetai station in Taranaki, New Zealand has a Uruguayan connection that may not have brought to the attention of ministers who approved its sale.

    • S.Kidman & Co deal contrary to national interest, says Australia's Treasurer
      • AFR
      • 29 April 2016

      Treasurer Scott Morrison was accused of playing politics with foreign investment after he decided to stop a Chinese-led consortium buying Australia's biggest private landholder, buying S.Kidman and Co.

    • Reshaping the debate on land alienation in Africa: What are the origins of social change?
      • SOAS
      • 29 April 2016

      The recent swell of enthusiasm for studying large-scale land acquisitions reveals something deeper about how researchers, journalists, and social activists continue to perceive societies south of the Sahara.

    • Sanamadougou and Sahou: Press release of Afrique-Europe-Interact
      • Afrique-Europe-Interact
      • 28 April 2016

      28/04/2016: In the land conflict between Sanamadougou and Sahou (Mali) and the company M3-SA a solution has come into reach +++ Afrique-Europe-Interact still calls upon the African Bank of Development to seek exchange with M3-SA +++ Also the Malian government and the civil society have to contribute to a fair solution

    • Sugarcane plantation blamed for water shortage
      • Khmer Times
      • 27 April 2016

      Land clearance and water consumption by the massive Rui Feng sugarcane plantation has been blamed to worsen drought in Preah Vihear village, Cambodia.

    • MPs want to tighten rules for foreigners who buy farmland in Romania
      • Romania Insider
      • 27 April 2016

      A group of 24 deputies, most of them from the National Liberal Party (PNL) have initiated a law draft that aims to impose stricter conditions for foreigners who want to buy farmland in Romania.

    • Tanzania: Investors lose seven farms in Morogoro
      • Daly News
      • 27 April 2016

      Several other title deeds for farms with total 549,000 hectares in Morogoro region have been forwarded to the Ministry of Lands and Human Settlement Developments for revocation.

    • Denmark's AP Pension to invest in Romanian farmland
      • IPE
      • 26 April 2016

      Denmark’s AP Pension is expanding its exposure to agricultural land in a proposed new deal to buy farmland in eastern Romania and lease it back to the Danish company operating farms on the land.

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