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Nkwinti defends foreign land ownership
- Xinhua
- 23 June 2015
South Africa's Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform tried to alleviate jitters that the prohibition of land ownership by foreign nationals would drive away investors.
World Bank Group: Project critics threatened, harassed, jailed
- HRW
- 22 June 2015
The World Bank Group has done little to prevent or dissuade governments from intimidating critics of the projects it funds, or monitor for reprisals, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today
DFID Land Policy Bulletin
- DFID
- 21 June 2015
The UK government publishes the first issue of its Land Policy Bulletin, produced by its Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development (LEGEND) programme.
Brazil considers friendlier foreign farmland policy
- Farm Futures
- 19 June 2015
Head of Brazilian Ag Caucus pushes amendment to allow foreign corporations to buy land
Felda Global Ventures buys Rajawali’s Sugar Operations, 37% of all plantations
- Awas Mifee
- 18 June 2015
Malaysian company Felda Global Ventures buys 37% of PT Eagle High Plantations Tbk in ambitious move to become "ASEAN’s largest sugar hub”
China backs Northern Australia Asia foodbowl push
- Australian Financial Review
- 18 June 2015
China has backed turning northern Australia in to a food bowl for Asia saying the free trade deal will aid Chinese investment in farms in the region.
EBRD financing Ukrainian agriculture group
- World Grain
- 18 June 2015
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development puts another $20 million into the Kernel Group, one of the largest vertically integrated agribusiness holdings in the Ukraine.
Aid donors’ flagship investment deal causing hardship and displacement for Tanzanian farmers
- Oakland Institue
- 18 June 2015
Norfund, the UK aid department, and Capricorn are funding the British company Agrica’s industrial rice plantation in Tanzania, which is destroying the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.
The seemingly public hearing of the ProSavana Program: Yet another phoney dialogue process
- Na?o ProSavana
- 17 June 2015
The ProSavana Program has no legitimacy because it does not abide to the law and because it is fundamentally rejected by wide sectors of Mozambican society, mainly by peasant communities and organizations of the Nacala Corridor.
Land grabbing in Southeast Asia – what can Africa learn?
- PLAAS
- 17 June 2015
Across Southeast Asia, a dramatic reconfiguring of land rights, livelihoods and economies is underway, with profound and disturbing implications for the future.
Malaysia's Felda Global Ventures defends Indonesia deal
- ANN
- 16 June 2015
Acquisition of Eagle High Plantations includes a total land bank of 425,000ha with 67 per cent in Kalimantan and the rest spread across Papua, Sulawesi and Sumatra.
Barnaby Joyce draws line in the soil on foreign farm buyers
- The Australian
- 15 June 2015
Australian Ag Minister supports banning all foreign governments and foreign state-owned companies from buying Australian farmland, saying such acquisitions could “undermine the national interest”.