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China snaps up Qld cattle station
- The Land
- 21 September 2015
London-listed M.P. Evans, offloaded 31,000-hectare cattle-fattening property Woodlands, near Westmar, Australia for $28 million to a subsidiary of China's Fucheng Group.
CDC Group response to report raises concerns about land grabs, inadequate consultations & compensation by Feronia & Unilever in DRC
- BHRRC
- 17 September 2015
"Without CDC’s investment Feronia would not have survived and 3500 people would have lost their jobs, as well as the access to the schools, hospitals and infrastructure that the company provides to workers and the community."
Indonesia's Minister of Agriculture will gather 20 prospective cattle farm investors
- ThePresidentPost
- 17 September 2015
Brazilian investors are currently building a cattle farm of 3,000 hectares in the eastern part of Sumba Island, East Nusa Tenggara.
Farmland Partners launches $25m offer
- World Grain
- 17 September 2015
Farmland Partners, the New York Stock Exchange-listed real estate investment trust (REIT), says it will eventually branch out from the US.
New Zealand rejects $56 mln farm purchase by Chinese company
- Reuters
- 17 September 2015
New Zealand's government on Thursday blocked the NZ$88 million ($56 million) purchase of a local farm by China's Shanghai Pengxin amid public concerns about foreign land ownership.
Cambodia UPROOTED: "Our spiritual roots"
- VoA Cambodia
- 17 September 2015
Series of video clips by filmmaker Kalyanee Mam explore the social and environmental issues related to deforestation, land grabbing, industrial agriculture, and overfishing in Cambodia.
Pushing land grabs up the anti-corruption agenda
- Global Witness
- 16 September 2015
Issues of land and corruption are intricately linked. Over the last decade increasing commercial demand for land has made the sector more vulnerable to corrupt abuse by those in a position to own or control land.
A quarter of Northern Territory pastoral lease land held by foreign interests
- ABC
- 16 September 2015
An ABC Rural investigation reveals the extent of the creep of foreign ownership in the Top End, particularly over the past three years.
Western Australia makes Ord risk demand
- West Australian
- 16 September 2015
Government considers the development of two plots of land on the Ord River irrigation scheme so risky that it demanded a $150 million a year guarantee from the Chinese company behind the farming project.
Cambodia government shortens lease time on land concessions
- VoA Khmer
- 15 September 2015
Cambodia government has announced a new review of economic land concessions, shortening the period of some from 99 years to 50 years. Land concessions to private enterprises over the years has creating thousands of land disputes and causing many people to become displaced.
Ministry cracks down on dormant ELCs
- Khmer Times
- 15 September 2015
Twenty-three companies holding a total of 90,682 hectares in Cambodia economic land concessions (ELCs) have had their concessions rescinded, while another 20 are being monitored.
Old Mutual targets African properties
- Business Day
- 15 September 2015
Old Mutual Investment Group is targeting agricultural investments in Africa through Futuregrowth, an asset management affiliate of Old Mutual.