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Agri Investor | 23 Sep 2015
The $70 billion Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund has approved a US$100 million investment in Brookfield Brazil Agriculture II, a $700m vehicle being raised by Canada's largest asset manager. |
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VoA | 22 Sep 2015
Cambodian land concessions granted to companies last year affected nearly 80,000 people, displacing many of them and increasing poverty according to a new report by NGO Forum on Cambodia. |
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GRAIN | 22 Sep 2015
Ethiopian authorities should drop charges and release three local activists charged under repressive anti-terrorism law after trying to attend a workshop on food security, say six international organisations. |
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Financial Review | 21 Sep 2015
The $150 million Rural Funds Group has increased its exposure to almonds after striking a deal to develop 1500 hectares in two new almond orchards in the NSW Riverina backed by a long-term lease to Singapore giant Olam. |
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Financial Review | 21 Sep 2015
The new Turnbull government is facing its first big test on foreign investment as Chinese bidders circle Australia's largest landholder, S. Kidman & Co., which owns cattle stations in the top-secret Woomera rocket range. |
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Bloomberg | 21 Sep 2015
Uruguayan farm operators are raising a record amount of funds in the securities market after a boom in prices for the country’s farmland. |
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The Land | 21 Sep 2015
London-listed M.P. Evans, offloaded 31,000-hectare cattle-fattening property Woodlands, near Westmar, Australia for $28 million to a subsidiary of China's Fucheng Group. |
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Nouvelle Calédonie 1 | 18 Sep 2015
Les vastes terrains au nord de l'Australie attirent de plus en plus d'investisseurs étrangers. Ces trois dernières années, des entreprises indonésiennes et chinoises ont acheté des terres agricoles. |
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BHRRC | 17 Sep 2015
"Without CDC’s investment Feronia would not have survived and 3500 people would have lost their jobs, as well as the access to the schools, hospitals and infrastructure that the company provides to workers and the community." |
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World Grain | 17 Sep 2015
Farmland Partners, the New York Stock Exchange-listed real estate investment trust (REIT), says it will eventually branch out from the US. |
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Droit Libre TV | 17 Sep 2015
Les organisations et associations de lutte contre les accaparements de terre des pays de l’Afrique de l’Ouest ont décidé de faire lutte commune contre la mainmise des entreprises et des gouvernements sur ces ressources naturelles. |
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Reuters | 17 Sep 2015
New Zealand's government on Thursday blocked the NZ$88 million ($56 million) purchase of a local farm by China's Shanghai Pengxin amid public concerns about foreign land ownership. |
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VoA Cambodia | 17 Sep 2015
Series of video clips by filmmaker Kalyanee Mam explore the social and environmental issues related to deforestation, land grabbing, industrial agriculture, and overfishing in Cambodia. |
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TEF | 09 Sep 2015
Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior has arranged a loan for companies of Ecuadorian agribusiness conglomerate with diversified business activities in banana plantations, dairy, and fertilisers. |
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