The Schmidt Agricola family business is planning a 10,000-hectare cocoa farm in the Brazilian state of Bahia, where similar super-sized cocoa farms are also under development in partnership with large cocoa companies like Cargill and Barry Callebaut.
Frente a crises de pools de siembra como de Los Grobo, empresas agroexportadoras - (ABCD, Vitarra (fusión de Bunge y Glencore), COFCO - que antes tenían los puertos para exportación, extendieron su actividad, primero al acopio, y luego al alquiler de campos bajo los esquemas del sistema financiero, que son básicamente los mismos que compraron los títulos de deuda de la Argentina.
Tumbling corn and soybean prices are sparking defaults, undermining returns for so-called Fiagros, the Brazilian investment funds backed by agricultural receivables such as interest, dividends and land-lease payments.
Cargill is selling its $48.8 million poultry farm and processing plant in Anhui province to DCP Capital, a Beijing-based private equity firm with Singapore's GIC and Temasek as investors, and the Canadian pension fund CDPQ
Una oleada de conflictos violentos azota el campo paraguayo; la provoca la demanda de tierras para un único cultivo: la soja.
For Minneapolis-based Proterra Investment Partners, the sale represents a second lucrative exit in its agricultural funds, after it sold a 22,386-hectare cropping portfolio in Victoria and South Australia last year.
Global Witness appelle à une "action immédiate" de la part de Cargill, Hershey's, Kellogg, Nestlé et PepsiCo afin de prévenir les violations des droits de l'homme et des droits fonciers dont seraient victimes les populations indigènes d'Amazonie.
How multinational companies sponsor agribusiness lobby and sustain the dismantling of socio-encironmental reglation in Brazil
Relatório inédito revela participação direta de multinacionais no lobby ruralista; além de atuar em associações que financiam o Instituto Pensar Agro, empresas como Bayer, Basf, Syngenta, JBS, Cargill e Nestlé mantiveram 278 reuniões com o alto escalão do governo Bolsonaro
A community of fishermen and acai gatherers are suing Cargill in federal court in Brazil, accusing the company of stealing their land, acquiring it through third parties bearing allegedly fake land titles.
Fresh from making $360 million from the sale of its Corinella farms, US investment company Proterra has put another $400 million of Australian farm and water assets on the market.
US-based Proterra Investment Partners has banked over $360 million selling 49 farms to 23 local buyers in Australia.
