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Joyce stands up for FDI changes
- Farm Weekly
- 04 Mar 2015
Australia's agriculture minister, Barnaby Joyce, has defended the government’s newly tightened foreign investment regime before key agricultural industry stakeholders.
Ugandan farmers take on palm oil giants over land grab claims
- Guardian
- 03 Mar 2015
Farmers evicted to make way for project backed by UN's IFAD say they have received little compensation. They're taking the industrial palm oil producers to court.
Stop #landrights fraud!
- Oakland Institute
- 03 Mar 2015
Civil society rejects the World Bank’s sham Conference on Land and Poverty and denounces the Bank’s role in global land grabs.
Mapping the global battle to protect our planet
- Guardian
- 03 Mar 2015
A new project maps environmental protest across the world, powerfully visualising a growing movement, building new points of convergence unite movements working on issues from food sovereignty to land-grabbing, biofuels and climate justice.
Africa to be the next frontier for oil palm
- The Hindu
- 03 Mar 2015
Olam has embarked on its first palm oil industrial project in Gabon, investing $500 million in 50,000 hectares of plantations in phase I.
Rewards of land investment must be balanced with risks
- Western Producer
- 03 Mar 2015
Farmland deserves special attention because it involves much more than just land: the people who own and work the land form the basis of rural communities.
Malaysia's Sime Darby completes $1.74 bln New Britain Palm Oil buy
- Reuters
- 03 Mar 2015
Sime Darby Plantation Bhd, has completed the acquisition of PNG-based New Britain Palm Oil Ltd, adding 135,000 hectares to its land bank.
Militarisation and alternative biofuel drives Ethiopian land-grab
- Digital Journal
- 03 Mar 2015
The approach taken by Ethiopia and India to reaching development goals and fulfilling environmental promises by leasing or buying large tracts of fertile land affects land, water and indigenous people.
Does Australia's farm sector need foreign investment?
- BBC
- 01 Mar 2015
Foreign investors own 10% of Australia's agricultural land. But that could soon rise thanks to two huge projects being developed in Northern Territory's Top End with the help of foreign investors.
Ukraine crisis seen softening political ground for foreign farm land sales
- Reuters
- 27 February 2015
The crisis in Ukraine looks set to trigger major changes in its vast agricultural sector with state-owned farm land and small family plots likely to go up for sale despite concerns over the impact on local farmers.
New Mexico Investment Council makes first major agriculture move
- IP & Real Estate
- 27 February 2015
The US sovereign wealth fund has approved a $200m allocation to TIAA-CREF’s Global Agriculture II fund, its first major commitment to the sector.
From Africa's Palms
- Al Jazeera
- 27 February 2015
People & Power investigates the environmental consequences of palm oil plantations in equatorial Africa.