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    • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
      Special ReportAfrican Farming & the World
      Grassroots battle to commercialise South Africa’s Eastern Cape

      A lack of clear land ownership rights for farmers is hampering efforts to open up the region to the wider market

    • Saturday, 22 September, 2018
      Special ReportDestination: Cape Town & Winelands
      Cape’s landless uncork a vintage opportunity

      Small producers are satisfying a taste for natural wine

    • Wednesday, 12 September, 2018
      News in-depth
      Cumbrian villagers fight British army’s plan to ‘grab’ common land

      First attempt to enclose common land since 1914 has sparked outrage

    • Wednesday, 5 September, 2018
      Emotions run high as South Africa wrestles with land reform tensions

      Ramaphosa faces balancing act over land expropriation as ANC debate intensifies

    • Sunday, 26 August, 2018
      News in-depthThe FT View
      Why South Africa needs land reform legislation

      Donald Trump’s clumsy intervention damages a legitimate cause

    • Thursday, 23 August, 2018
      Trump wades into South African land debate

      US president claims there have been ‘large-scale’ killings of farmers

    • Thursday, 23 August, 2018
      South Africa to respond to Trump claims on farm seizures

      Rand hit by prospect of strained relations with US

    • Thursday, 23 August, 2018
      beyondbrics
      Land reform in South Africa is crucial for inclusive growth

      New president outlines potential conditions for expropriation without compensation

    • Sunday, 29 April, 2018
      News in-depth
      Land reform stirs political passions in South Africa

      President Ramaphosa must balance risk of economic damage with need to tackle inequality

    • Monday, 23 April, 2018
      The Big Read
      Interview: Cyril Ramaphosa on how to fix South Africa

      ‘Something was wrong, horribly wrong,’ says the country’s president of the Zuma era. Now he must restore faith in the African powerhouse and its politics

    • Wednesday, 18 April, 2018
      David Pilling
      Give land to South Africa’s dispossessed

      Whites have enjoyed excellent property rights, but blacks have been less protected

    • Thursday, 4 January, 2018
      China land grab on Lake Baikal raises Russian ire

      Nationalists up in arms after Chinese investors snap up lakefront properties

    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2017
      Macri investment push intensifies Argentina’s land conflicts

      Drive to develop Patagonian shale fields clashes with indigenous claims

    • Thursday, 11 May, 2017
      Zimbabwe warns Jacob Zuma not to copy land seizures

      Tourism minister tells South Africa that Marxism has had ‘dire consequences’

    • Monday, 28 November, 2016
      Chinese politics & policy
      China mulls extension of contentious property leases
    • Tuesday, 13 September, 2016
      Chinese politics & policy
      Riot police lock down China’s ‘democracy village’

      Villagers protest after arrest of democratically elected village leader

    • Thursday, 8 September, 2016
      News in-depthThe Big Read
      FT Investigation: How China bought its way into Cambodia

      Phnom Penh has emerged as a vital ally, and in return Beijing is driving development in the country

    • Sunday, 19 June, 2016
      Chinese politics & policy
      Riot police arrest elected chief of China ‘democracy village’

      Prosecutors accuse 70-year-old chief of taking bribes after he called for renewed protests

    • Monday, 13 June, 2016
      China local government revenues boosted by real estate
    • Wednesday, 27 April, 2016
      Ethiopia hands dissident 9-year jail term

      Opponent of land-leasing, Okello Akway Ochalla, sentenced for plotting against the state

    • Tuesday, 19 April, 2016
      China-led consortium in vast Australia farmland deal

      Shanghai Pengxin brings in local investors but purchase of Kidman still a political issue

    • Thursday, 3 March, 2016
      News in-depthFT Investigations
      The Great Land Rush: China’s Pengxin hits overseas hurdles

      Investment bids stall in Australia and New Zealand

    • Wednesday, 2 March, 2016
      News in-depthFTfm
      The Great Land Rush: Investors face conflict in quest for farms

      Canadian pension fund’s purchase spurs backlash

    • Tuesday, 1 March, 2016
      News in-depthFT Investigations
      The Great Land Rush: Indonesia – Saving the earth

      Norway has offered Indonesia $1bn to stop cutting down so many trees – but progress is slow. Now its ministers are heading to the rainforests of Borneo to find out why

    • Tuesday, 1 March, 2016
      News in-depthFT Investigations
      The Great Land Rush: Myanmar – The dispossessed

      Two pipelines stretch from the Bay of Bengal to China. They have opened up a trail of conflict over land, as a nation struggles to open up to the world

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