Companies co-founded and run by Phil Edmonds, founder of leading African farmland investor Agriterra, paid “bribes” to African officials and have bought assets owned by secretive offshore structures, a campaign group has claimed.
Agriterra, an Africa focussed agricultural company, announces that Phil Edmonds has stepped down as chairman of the company.
UK-based Agriterra, which controls 21,000 ha of farmland in Africa, provides an update on its 3,200 ha cocoa plantation in Sierra Leone.
- 4-traders
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19 September 2013
The seeds of the next conflict are not diamonds but something far more valuable to local people - farmland.
Green Scenery calculates that 60% of the total area in Pujehun district is already being, or could soon be converted for large-scale industrial agriculture, primarily for oil palm plantations.
- Green Scenery
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24 April 2013
Agriterra revealed headway in its long-held desire to expand into cocoa production, acquiring 1,750 hectares of plantations, and forecasting further purchases with a windfall from a sale of oil interests.
- Agrimoney
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13 February 2013
Agriterra revealed plans for further land expansion even after raising its cattle operations to about 16,700 hectares and entering the cocoa market through the acquisition of a Sierra Leone trader.
- Agrimoney
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24 October 2011
Company expands its activities to capitalize on the soft and hard commodity resource boom in West Africa
- World Grain
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23 February 2011
Des actions échangées à Toronto et des obligations américaines, certes. Et pourquoi pas quelques parcelles de terres agricoles de Saint-Narcisse pour compléter votre portefeuille?
- La Presse
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25 October 2010
EBF, which Agriterra will acquire, has land holdings of more than 169,000 hectares in Liberia, West Africa.
While sovereign wealth funds have been buying up tracts of land, AgriTerra has been taking a different tack.
- Financial Times
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17 July 2009
With vast tracts of land being sold in Madagascar, and Sudan and other African governments actively seeking investors in agricultural land, are we witnessing a neo-colonial land grab or will the investment result in greater food productivity to the long-term benefit of recipient nations?
- African Business
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07 February 2009