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Business Day | 25 Nov 2015
One Thousand & One Voices (1K1V) — a US-based private capital fund backed by some influential family investors — is on the hunt for opportunities in the sub-Saharan Africa agricultural sector. |
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Proactive Investors | 25 Nov 2015
The formalities of a joint-venture will be concluded “shortly” that will give the AIM-listed agri-specialist access to 1,265 hectares that sits between the Wami River and the main Dodoma to Dar es Salaam highway. |
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Africa Report | 25 Nov 2015
The EcoEnergy project was announced in 2011, with those to be displaced told they could expect compensation within 18 months. It has stalled, hamstrung by red tape and legal delays. |
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FrontLineDefenders | 23 Nov 2015
Intelligence agency interrogates people it suspects of leading protests against Canadian oil palm company, Feronia, owned by European and US governments. |
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Guardian | 23 Nov 2015
Deal with Greens guarantees passage of legislation to lower screening thresholds for foreign investments in farmland and agricultural businesses in Australia |
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Queensland Country Life | 23 Nov 2015
European pension fund-backed ACE Farming has quietly snapped up a dairy farm near Yarram, in South Gippsland, primed for development opportunity for about $8 million. |
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Landesa | 23 Nov 2015
As part of Landesa’s ongoing Responsible Investments in Property and Land (RIPL) Project, Landesa staff conducted, in cooperation with Illovo Sugar Ltd, a study focused on Illovo’s operations in Malawi. |
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Free City Radio | 23 Nov 2015
Free City Radio interviews Devlin Kuyek from GRAIN speaking on the jailing of three Ethiopian land rights advocates. |
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CIDSE | 23 Nov 2015
Conference highlights the state of land grabbing in Africa, cases of resistance across the continent, as well as Church responses and its increasing engagement on issues of land grabbing. |
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Macauhub | 21 Nov 2015
Cabo Verde is already producing food abroad, specifically in Paraguay, where the government in 1996 bought a plot of 10,000 hectares, which mainly produces rice, corn, wheat and soy. |
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This is Hell! | 21 Nov 2015
Oakland Institute founder Anuradha Mittal profiles the heroic, dangerous work of Global South land rights activists like Nasako Besingi and Pastor Omot Agwa, who face violence and terror charges from hostile governments. |
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New Telegraph | 20 Nov 2015
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has disclosed that private sector investments in the country’s agric sector has reached about N760 billion in the last two years. |
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ABC | 19 Nov 2015
The Treasurer said the size and location of the properties means selling them to a foreign buyer would be "contrary to the national interest", and the deal cannot go ahead. |
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VOA | 19 Nov 2015
Global Witness says Cambodia’s ongoing land crisis is part of a larger global trend, one driven by economics and resource shortages. |
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Xinhua | 30 Oct 2015
SSJFZ is a unique platform which integrates multiple Singapore elements with local application across its entire "farm to table" process. |
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VoA Khmer | 30 Oct 2015
Some six years after about 2,000 families were pushed off 19,000 hectares of land that was converted to plantation for sugarcane, which is processed into sugar used by Coca-Cola. |
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Eurodad | 29 Oct 2015
Instead of taking suggestions on board from CSOs or its own monitoring bodies, the World Bank continues to push its agenda at the expense of small-scale farmers. |
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Straits Times | 26 Sep 2015
Resignation of CEO is latest setback to the project in north-eastern China's Jilin province meant to diversify food sources for Singaporeans and help improve safety standards for Chinese consumers. |
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Danchurchaid | 23 Mar 2015
DanChurchAid, CARE Denmark and MS calls for more transparency of pension investments in African agriculture. |
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Africa Report | 27 May 2014
A Mauritius sugarcane firm Omnicane is set to invest $250 million into sugarcane plantations in northern Ghana |
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