A land grab twice the size of France is under way in Ethiopia, as the government pursues the seizure of indigenous lands to turn them over to dams and plantations.
On February 11, Chai Bunthonglek, a land rights activist from Klong Sai Pattana village and member of the Southern Peasant Federation of Thailand was gunned down. Four locals have been slain in similar attacks since 2010.
The tighter restrictions don't apply to buyers from the US, New Zealand or Chile because of their existing free trade agreements with Australia.
Two Southeast Asian countries, Myanmar and Cambodia, have declared to participate in the global rice business through foreign investors from Middle East, China, South Korea, Japan and Thailand.
"A lot of money is going into (land) speculation; this has worsened the situation," says Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
An inter-ministerial fact-finding committee from Yaounde has inspected the palm nurseries and other investment sites of the Sithe Global Sustainable Oils Cameroon Limited (SC-SOC) located in the South West Region of Cameroon.
The foreign ownership debate in Australia needs to evolve to – or be merged with – a broader debate about the future of the agricultural sector.
There are a number of “pending agreements” between the two countries aimed to build grain silos and lease of agriculture land in Ukraine to Qatari investors.
Foreigners will not be allowed to own land in South Africa, President Jacob Zuma said during his state-of-the-nation address to Parliament on Thursday. He said they would instead be eligible for long-term leases.
The land market in Romania is left to chance, any occasional businessman being free to trade arable or forest land as long as they have a good lawyer or are up to paying a bribe to some civil servant.
China's largest privately owned agribusiness company and the Perich family from Sydney are looking to buy a $100 million dairy in western New South Wales.
"The core of the protest is about preventing the sale of Polish agricultural land that might happen from 2016 if the current law continues. This will expose Polish land to be bought by foreign buyers and will threaten small farmers."
