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Financiers of palm oil must stop deforestation and illegal activity
- FOE
- 21 November 2013
Illegal and harmful production of palmoil in Indonesia is continuing, reveals a new report released today by Friends of the Earth.
Where the buffalo shouldn't roam
- openDemocracy
- 20 November 2013
In Romania traditional livelihoods and rare animal species are about to give way to a bizarre, private project to introduce American buffalo. It's part of a rural exodus, and EU law will make future land grabs even easier.
Papua New Guinea losing independence
- Oakland Institute
- 19 November 2013
Papua New Guinea is the latest known victim in a modern era of land grabs orchestrated by foreign corporations according to an investigative report and a film.
Beefing up ties with Myanmar
- Financial Express
- 19 November 2013
Myanmar officials have proposed to Bangladesh to invest in agriculture in their country as it has a lot of arable lands for this purpose. The Myanmar government also said they were ready to give long-term lease of land to Bangladeshi entrepreneurs for agricultural purposes from which both the countries would benefit.
Global funds chase Australian farms
- Stock Journal
- 18 November 2013
Global fund managers and some of the world's largest pension funds have bought more than $1.5 billion of agricultural land in Australia over the past three years.
Fund manager Duxton buys farms in New Zealand
- Wall Street Journal
- 17 November 2013
Duxton Asset Management is buying a stake in seven sheep and cattle farms even as it voiced concern over the country’s system of regulating foreign investment.
Indonesia’s forest communities victims of ‘legal land grabs’
- Jakarta Globe
- 16 November 2013
Communities are finding that ancestral lands are slipping into the hands of foreign companies for oil palm cultivation, as demand for the product grows in Europe, India and China.
The gender and equity implications of land-related investments on land access and labour and income-generating opportunities
- FAO
- 16 November 2013
Three FAO reports published in 2013 looking at Lao PDR, Zambia and Ghana
Big ag deal goes largely unnoticed
- Financial Review
- 15 November 2013
Late on Wednesday night an Australian trust backed by Swiss, Danish and US fund managers agreed to pay more than $200 million for 12,000 hectares of almond groves in northern Victoria.
Agribusiness investor Zeder deepens its roots in Zambia
- Business Day
- 14 November 2013
The deal was struck through Zeder's existing investment in that country - its 73.4%-owned commercial farming venture, Chayton Africa
"Land grabbing in Madagascar: Echoes and testimonies from the field" report launch
- Re:Common, SIF, TANY
- 13 November 2013
This joint report from Re:Common, SIF and TANY takes the reader through five regions of Madagascar exposing the consequences and impacts of six land grab projects led by foreign investors.
Cameroon activist takes on land grabber from Wall Street, now faces imprisonment
- GRAIN
- 13 November 2013
Community organiser Nasako Besingi speaks about being beaten, arrested and sued for supporting villagers in Cameroon defending their lands from US hedge fund Herakles Capital.