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The myth of the African land grab
- Foreign Policy
- 20 October 2015
Are foreign investors really snatching up as much of Africa as they can? It’s not that simple, Foreign Policy reports.
New database tracks large land deals in bid to boost transparency
- Reuters
- 20 October 2015
Large purchases of farmland can at times be cloaked in secrecy, but a new online database is aiming to shed light on such deals globally by publishing contracts between governments and investors
UNIDO: Partnering with EU to support agribusiness investments in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific regions
- UNIDO
- 20 October 2015
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization is helping to build staple crop processing zones Nigeria, which 'can become a model for leveraging technical assistance and investments with development banks'.
Farmland assets grow 33%; timber assets also climb
- P&I
- 19 October 2015
Pension fund manager TIAA-CREF's farmland assets grew by 56% to $7.8 billion in committed assets.
West Papua Oil Palm Atlas: The companies behind the plantation explosion
- WRM
- 16 October 2015
The oil palm industry’s rapid growth in West Papua, Indonesia is having serious adverse effects on its indigenous population.
Industrial oil palm plantations: A model that violates forest-dependent peoples and their territories
- WRM
- 16 October 2015
WRM's September bulletin focuses on denouncing oil palm plantations’ expansion and some of its consequences for forest dependent peoples and their territories.
Americans are biggest investors in NZ dairy land
- Scoop
- 16 October 2015
United States investors were the largest investors in our dairy land during 2013-2014, analysis by KPMG has revealed.
#NoLandNoLife | World Hunger Day 2015: Hunger, poverty and repression killing rural communities
- PAN AP
- 16 October 2015
Marks the World Food Day, Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) exposing real situation facing farmers and other small food producers that resist against land and resource grabbing and struggle for genuine agrarian reform as the only way out of chronic poverty and hunger.
DekelOil: Contract to develop 10,000 hectares of brownfield land in Ghana
- LSE
- 15 October 2015
DekelOil Public Limited, operator and 51% owner of the vertically integrated Ayenouan palm oil project in Côte d'Ivoire, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a contract to develop 10,000 hectares of brownfield land in West Ghana.
American farmland titan eyes Canada
- Alberta Farmer
- 15 October 2015
One of America’s largest farm management and real estate brokerages has expanded into the Canadian Prairies — starting with Alberta.
Democratic Republic of Congo: “We need justice to be made"
- WRM
- 15 October 2015
Interview with Jean-François Mombia on the impacts of the oil palm plantations of the Canadian company, Feronia.
#RuralWomenRiseUp: Groups to hold simultaneous actions to assert rights to land and resources
- PAN AP
- 15 October 2015
As the world marks the International Rural Women's Day, simultaneous activities organised by PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) and rural women's groups from various countries to highlight the call for rural women to rise up and assert their rights to land and resources.