Queensland's sugar takes a foreign flavour in big industry shake-up
    Subsidiary of Singapore's Wilmar pays $115m for Australia's largest sugar mill operator and plans to buy back former cane land now used for timber plantations to expand sugar production.
    • The Australian
    • 06 June 2011
    Q+A: Palm oil, growth and Indonesia's forest clearing ban
    Indonesia, the world's No.1 palm oil producer, signed into law a 2-year freeze on new permits that may prompt palm oil firms to seek new ways to grow supply to meet rising demand from India and China, such as buying more land in Africa
    • Reuters
    • 26 May 2011
    Development agencies support harmful oil palm production
    Increasing industrial production of oil palm in sub-Saharan African countries, carried out by foreign corporations, is destroying the livelihoods of thousands of Africans and the biodiversity of ecosystems.
    • IPS
    • 09 May 2011
    Asian palm oil: limited supply
    Industry giants such as Malaysia’s Sime Darby and Singapore’s Olam and Wilmar International are scrambling for fresh space in equatorial Africa.
    • FT
    • 18 April 2011
    Cane growers fear potential Wilmar deal
    Wilmar's take-over of Sucrogen gave the company a significant amount of cane land that it increased with the purchase of additional farms to guarantee cane supply, outbidding local farmers for land.
    • North Queensland Register
    • 03 April 2011
    En pleine croissance, Sifca dope sa présence au Liberia
    Le géant agro-industriel ivoirien Sifca a réalisé à quelques semaines d'intervalle deux opérations majeures dans le caoutchouc (22 000 ha) et l’huile de palme (8 800 ha).
    • Jeune Afrique
    • 08 Mar 2011
    L'Afrique aiguise les appétits
    Fusions-acquisitions, achats de terres, coentreprises… Le continent attire des investisseurs venus de toute la planète, assurés d’y trouver la réponse à des besoins mondiaux en nourriture qui ne cessent d’augmenter. Tour d’horizon d’un grenier en devenir.
    • Jeune Afrique
    • 03 Mar 2011
    Asia's hungry agribusinesses
    The global boom in commodities has raised the profile of three Asian agribusinesses: Olam, Wilmar and Noble, all with important farmland holdings.
    • Barron's
    • 08 January 2011
    Foreign land grab on Aussie farms and brands to secure local food supply
    More than $9 billion of prized agricultural assets have been sold to offshore interests in the past two years alone.
    • Daily Telegraph
    • 15 November 2010
    Singapore's Wilmar eyes Aust's Sucrogen for Papua sugar project
    Wilmar is eyeing Indonesia's Papua Province for a massive cane growing project.
    • Asia Pulse
    • 29 October 2010
    The mob action in Tema
    Wilmar claim to be investing in project that will employ 500 people with investment capital of $40 million. Yet the land in question supports the entire fishing industry in Tema.
    • Ghana Web
    • 23 September 2010
    Tema Manhean residents halt edible oil refinery Project
    Some natives of Tema Manhean have prevented officials of WILMAR, a Singaporean edible oil refinery company, from developing a piece of land near the naval base which was allegedly sold to the company by the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority.
    • GBC
    • 18 September 2010

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