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When bad development happens to good people
- Reuters
- 19 September 2013
Large-scale agricultural projects in Cambodia as well as in parts Africa have driven small-holder farmers into wage labour out of distress.
Agriterra Ltd : Expansion and development of cocoa operations
- 4-traders
- 19 September 2013
UK-based Agriterra, which controls 21,000 ha of farmland in Africa, provides an update on its 3,200 ha cocoa plantation in Sierra Leone.
Phatisa says closes African Agriculture Fund at $243 mln
- Reuters
- 19 September 2013
Phatisa has already invested $84 million into nine projects in seven African countries, ranging from palm oil in Sierra Leone and the DRC, to poultry farming in Zambia.
Oil palm in Africa. Voices from the communities
- WRM
- 18 September 2013
New WRM video based on interviews with people from communities in Africa affected by the expansion of oil palm plantations.
Slow but steady progress on Burkina Faso land reform
- IRIN
- 18 September 2013
The US's Millennium Challenge Corporation says it is helping Burkina Faso to improve its land ownership legislation to protect rural land owners from unfair deals that have seen wealthy buyers acquire vast tracts of land.
Brazil approves three farmland sales to foreigners
- Reuters
- 18 September 2013
Brazil has authorized the sale of farmland to foreigners for the first time since 2010, when the country's attorney general imposed limits on foreign land control in one of the world's top producers of agricultural commodities.
Will Cameroon bear the brunt of Herakles’ implosion?
- Oakland Institute
- 18 September 2013
The embattled Herakles Farms palm oil plantation project in Cameroon appears to have now gone off the rails
The Global Land Rush
- 17 September 2013
Land acquisitions, whether to produce food, biofuels, or other crops, raise questions about who will benefit. Even if some of these projects can dramatically boost land productivity, will local people gain from this?
Colombia: Victims face reprisals for reclaiming land
- HRW
- 17 September 2013
Internally displaced Colombians face killings and widespread death threats for attempting to reclaim their land, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
Cima Coffee Farms launches as first company to offer plots of premium coffee farmlands in Latin America to individual investors
- PR Web
- 17 September 2013
Cima Coffee Farms this week announced it has officially launched as a standalone real estate concern dedicated to the sales of prime agricultural property
In Ethiopia, more land grabs, more indigenous people pushed out
- CSM
- 17 September 2013
A journalist's visit to South Omo, where rights groups say police have raped women and otherwise pressured locals to leave an area tagged to become a huge sugar plantation, was quickly curtailed by authorities.
EU’s Everything But Arms initiative is impoverishing Cambodian farmers
- Inclusive Development
- 17 September 2013
An EU trade initiative intended to reduce poverty in the world’s poorest countries has driven thousands of Cambodian farming families into destitution and led to serious human rights violations, says new report