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Colombian land deals are scrutinized
- WSJ
- 28 June 2013
Documents suggest Cargill acquired thousands of acres in the Vichada department from small farmers through 19 different legal entities controlled by four Cargill subsidiaries.
EU brings financial envelopes for agriculture, restricts farmland buying
- dalje.com
- 27 June 2013
Croatia has retained restrictions on the purchase of farmland, so that foreigners will not be able to buy agricultural land in Croatia for seven years after the country's entry into the EU, with a possibility of extending this time frame for another three years.
IFC financed 'land grabs' in Cambodia, Laos and Honduras exposed
- Bretton Woods Project
- 26 June 2013
Investments by the World Bank's IFC in financial intermediaries are alleged to have financed 'land grabs' in South East Asia and violations of indigenous people's rights in Honduras.
Full Planet, Empty Plates: Chapter 5. Eroding Soils Darkening Our Future
- 26 June 2013
Sometime within the last century, soil erosion began to exceed new soil formation. Now, nearly a third of the world’s cropland is losing topsoil faster than new soil is forming, reducing the land’s inherent fertility.
Olive oil: China hits the grove
- CIT
- 26 June 2013
Steep growth in Chinese olive oil consumption, unlikely to be met soon by a budding domestic supply, is encouraging investors to get hold of olive farms and processing plants in producing countries.
Guatemala's sugar cane land rush anything but sweet for corn growers
- Guardian
- 26 June 2013
Sugar cane and palm oil companies able to afford inflated rents are forcing Guatemala's smallholder farmers off their land.
Letter to MEPs on needed land policy reform
- TNI
- 25 June 2013
At the heart of the growing inequalities in Europe are the issues of land concentration and land grabbing. It is a critical subject and is having severe impacts on the prospects and viability of our communities.
European investments assist landgrabs in Liberia
- FOE
- 24 June 2013
European banks, pension funds and private equity funds have given financial assistance worth more than €450 million to Malaysian palm oil giant Sime Darby, responsible for environmental degradation and violations of national regulations in Liberia.
EmVest CEO Susan Payne makes case for Africa farmland
- Peoples Company
- 24 June 2013
Video presentation by EmVest CEO Susan Payne at the 2013 Land Investment Expo at the Sheraton West Des Moines Hotel.
Paraguayan indigenous community reoccupies territory after two decades of forced expulsion
- Real News
- 23 June 2013
Indigenous families in Paraguay have been living precariously on the side of a highway in the remote Chaco region for more than 20 years, ever since a German cattle rancher and the Paraguayan state illegally kicked them off of their ancestral lands.
Malaysia declares emergency in haze areas as Singapore improves
- Bloomberg
- 23 June 2013
Singapore yesterday sought “strong, firm, effective” action against Singaporean companies that may be involved in illegal burning in Indonesia that led to the city-state’s worst pollution on record.
Will the New Alliance help Africa's poor?
- Al Jazeera
- 21 June 2013
Among the concerns is that smallholder farmers could be pushed out of their land to make way for large, powerful international corporations.