Brazil's would-be cocoa king aims to revolutionize industry with giant farm
    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.
    • Reuters
    • 22 April 2025
    Propietarios y arrendatarios, los dueños del agro
    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.
    • El coehete a la luna
    • 11 February 2025
    Brazilian growers go bust in blow to $7 billion farm-credit boom
    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.
    • Bloomberg
    • 11 Mar 2024
    Cargill to exit poultry business in China
    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
    • Star Tribune
    • 31 May 2023
    Comidas contaminadas
    Una oleada de conflictos violentos azota el campo paraguayo; la provoca la demanda de tierras para un único cultivo: la soja.
    • Global Witness
    • 06 December 2022
    New Zealand family buys 200-year-old Tassie farm Vaucluse for $100m
    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.
    • AFR
    • 28 November 2022
    Huile de palme : Un nouveau rapport accuse les producteurs brésiliens de violations des droits de l'homme
    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.
    • AA
    • 27 September 2022
    The financiers of destruction
    How multinational companies sponsor agribusiness lobby and sustain the dismantling of socio-encironmental reglation in Brazil
    • De Olho nos Ruralistas
    • 18 July 2022
    De Olho nos Ruralistas lança dossiê sobre financiamento da bancada ruralista
    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
    • De Olho nos Ruralistas
    • 18 July 2022
    Cargill's bid to open new port in Brazil opposed by human rights, conservation groups
    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.
    • Star Tribune
    • 29 May 2022
    Good time to sell, US investors cash in last Aussie farms
    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.
    • Farm Online
    • 23 Mar 2022
    Proterra banks $360m from SA, Vic farms
    US-based Proterra Investment Partners has banked over $360 million selling 49 farms to 23 local buyers in Australia.
    • Real Estate Source
    • 12 December 2021

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