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Land acquisitions: India’s investments in Africa
- Consultancy Africa
- 16 October 2012
This paper examines the incidence of large-scale purchase of agricultural land in Africa by Indian investors.
MetLife bets on Brazil farms as bond yields hurt results
- Bloomberg
- 16 October 2012
MetLife Inc, the largest US life insurer, started a business to make agricultural loans in Brazil as insurers expand in developing markets and seek investments to boost income with interest rates near record lows.
Farmers' new tack: restrict land sales
- The Australian
- 16 October 2012
The New South Wales Farmers Association, in Australia, has switched policies to back much tighter restrictions on foreign companies and investment funds buying Australian farmland.
PNG PM promises to stop land grabs
- Radio Australia
- 15 October 2012
"We have made some fundamental mistakes over the past few years," PNG's Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill, told ABC Radio Australia.
World Food Day: Agribusiness investments are destroying small-scale family farmers and peasants
- Via Campesina
- 15 October 2012
Via Campesina highlights the risks that peasant agriculture will face if the issue of agricultural investment were to open the door to new land- water- and natural resources’ grabbing.
Land activist protests outside agriculture investment forum
- Myanmar Times
- 15 October 2012
A prominent activist staged a demonstration outside the 2nd Commercial Farm Asia conference at Yangon’s Parkroyal Hotel, calling on participants to respect the tenure rights of the country’s farmers.
Orbán says new law to prevent foreigners from buying farmland, reverse earlier purchases
- MTI
- 15 October 2012
Foreigners will be prevented from purchasing arable land in Hungary under the new land law, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Saturday.
Reclaiming the last forests of Sarawak
- PAN AP
- 15 October 2012
For the government of Sarawak, every piece of land should be utilised in the name of "development". Thus, reserved forests and lands should be logged and cleared and eventually, planted with oil palm. As a result, Malaysia's deforestation rate is increasing faster than anywhere else in the world.
PNG land scandal
- ABC
- 14 October 2012
Logging companies in PNG are using special agricultural leases to clear vast tracts of rainforest timber, on the promise of roads and economic development for remote villages. Jemima Garrett investigates.
São Tomé & Príncipe: Deforestation threatens biodiversity
- Global Voices
- 13 October 2012
The island's biodiversity threatened by plans to expand a palm oil plantation from 610 ha to 5,000 ha, through a 2009 deal signed with the Belgian company Socfinco.
Ukraine, Japan collaborate on farmland investments, corn growing, exports
- eFeedLink
- 12 October 2012
Japan wants to grow corn on Ukraine's black earth and import it while Ukraine suggests that Japan, as a "hi-tech country", invest in Ukrainian farmland.
Land-grabbing linked with hunger
- IRIN
- 12 October 2012
Researchers find that bulk of deals to lease out land are struck in 32 of the countries ranked “alarming” or “serious” on the Global Hunger Index score.