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Macquarie's cropping arm in black
- Financial Review
- 02 June 2014
Lawson Grains controls more than 42,000 hectares of prime cropping country in Australia.
Africa: focus on gender - the dangers of digitising land data
- SciDev.net
- 02 June 2014
Creating and digitising land registries could exacerbate unfair land grabs or further marginalise people who lack formal rights to land they live on or farm.
Agriculture at the The New York Forum AFRICA 2014
- PAEPARD
- 28 May 2014
Panel presentation on agribusiness in Africa at the New York Forum AFRICA 2014 in Gabon, with representatives of the Pan-African Agriculture and Agribusiness Consortium, Amatheon Agri Holding N.V. and the Government of Gabon.
Macquarie used fake email to get secrets
- Stock Journal
- 28 May 2014
Tim Hornibrook, head of Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management, obtained sensitive details about a competitor's profits, fee structure and returns by posing as a wealthy investor.
PNG: Govt to outlaw 'scam' land leases
- The National
- 28 May 2014
Special agriculture business leases are nothing but a “scam” used by logging companies and will be outlawed immediately, Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says.
Corporate stranglehold of farmland a risk to world food security, study says
- Guardian
- 28 May 2014
Small farmers grow 70% of world's food but the land which they control is shrinking as mega-farms squeeze them onto less than 25% of the world's available farmland, says new analysis by GRAIN
Farmland meets finance: Is land the new economic bubble?
- Food First
- 27 May 2014
This report identifies broad trends in farmland investing with the potential to affect countries in the Global North and Global South
Liberia: UK company risks closure
- New Democrat
- 27 May 2014
Equatorial Palm Oil Ltd risks closure as member of Grand Bassa County legislative caucus lobbies to ensure that the operations of the company be halted due to allegations of land grabs.
Global agriculture on verge of investment gold rush
- Weekly Times
- 27 May 2014
"The institutional ‘herd’ will eventually find agricultural investment,' delegates told at the Global AgInvesting Conference in New York.
Mauritius' Omnicane to invest $250 million into Ghana's sugar plantations
- Africa Report
- 27 May 2014
A Mauritius sugarcane firm Omnicane is set to invest $250 million into sugarcane plantations in northern Ghana
US investors, government policies leading global land-grabs
- Mintpress News
- 27 May 2014
The US public and private sectors are among the leading drivers of a global drive to snap up usable – and often in-use – agricultural land, in what critics say remains a steadily increasing epidemic of “land-grabbing.”
Herakles Farms: Champions of illegal deforestation
- Greenpeace
- 27 May 2014
Greenpeace report reveals how US-based Herakles Farms colluded with government officials in Cameroon to illegally export timber that itself was illegally felled in order to establish a palm oil plantation.