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The Great Land Rush
- Future Challenges
- 13 September 2012
Rising populations and the development of biofuels are increasing demand for arable land all over the world, and Arrianna Marie Conerly Coleman says that small farmers are the first to suffer.
Africa’s land-grab disaster in waiting
- The Star
- 12 September 2012
Investments in industrial scale agriculture must balanced by equitable flow of benefits to smallholder farmers
Malian farmers want their land back
- IPS
- 12 September 2012
A group of smallholder farmers in Mali have turned to the courts to try to recover land they say they have lost to big private investors. The legal action comes as foreign investors are losing interest in Mali due to political instability and an armed rebellion in the north.
Unnamed backer bankrolls Maori fight against Chinese purchase of New Zealand dairy farms
- Xinhua
- 11 September 2012
A Chinese company's controversial bid to buy 16 New Zealand dairy farms has stalled again after a mystery backer agreed to finance another legal appeal against the purchase.
Exclusive: EU to limit use of crop-based biofuels - draft law
- Reuters
- 11 September 2012
The European Union will impose a limit on the use of crop-based biofuels over fears they are less climate-friendly than initially thought and compete with food production, draft EU legislation seen by Reuters showed.
Sri Lanka’s Touchwood acquires land in Cambodia to set up an agricultural project
- News360.lk
- 10 September 2012
Sri Lanka’s Touchwood Investments PLC has acquired 11,138 hectares of land in Cambodia to set up an agricultural project to plant rubber and other crops.
Nation rich in land draws workers from one rich in people
- New York Times
- 10 September 2012
When a Chinese investor bought a farm outside this village a few years back, he was pleased enough to name it Golden Land. The soil was rich, the sunshine and rain bountiful. The land, deep in rural Russia, was also largely devoid of people. No more.
Insecure land tenures hobble DRC farmers
- VoA
- 10 September 2012
Land grabbing in Congo is speculative, CONAPAC advisor Etienne Bisimwa says, often based on the anticipated demand for jatropha, for biofuel. The profits, he says, are unlikely to be invested in rural areas.
What are the ecological costs of China’s future food imports?
- Chinadialogue
- 10 September 2012
China’s growing agribusinesses and demand for soybeans and meat is bringing intensive farming and the risk of further deforestation in Brazil and beyond. Tom Levitt reports.
PrimeAg plants seed in suitors’ minds
- Wall Street Journal
- 10 September 2012
Colliers International estimates about A$4 billion is currently being raised for funds to invest in Australian agriculture, including PrimeAg’s raising of A$125 million in cash for a controversial unlisted A$250 million agriculture fund with Australia’s Future Fund.
Sime Darby awaits Peru nod on oil palm plantation
- Business Times
- 07 September 2012
Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby Bhd is waiting for final approvals from the Peruvian government to start planting oil palm on 70,000 ha in the Latin American state.
Canada: Are foreign investors eyeing this pie? 
- Western Producer
- 07 September 2012
As the amount of investor-owned farmland grows in Saskatchewan, so do concerns about foreign ownership and loopholes in the province’s farmland ownership regulations.