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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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