Communities facing Zero Deforestation pledges: the case of OLAM in Gabon
    Muyissi Environnement and WRM report on the experiences of communities located in and around concession areas used by the agribusiness company OLAM in the province of Ngounie, in Gabon.
    • Muyissi and WRM
    • 19 February 2020
    Palm oil giant Olam accused over sourcing
    Palm oil giant Olam has been accused of using suppliers that may use unsustainable practices in parts of Southeast Asia and bulldozing rainforest for plantations in Gabon.
    • BBC
    • 12 December 2016
    Japan's Mitsubishi buys 20% stake in Olam
    Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation has bought a 20 per cent stake in global-agri business Olam through two transactions as the companies launch a strategic partnership.
    • Reuters
    • 27 August 2015
    Mitsubishi bids $1.4 billion for Cermaq to expand in food
    Mitsubishi Corp., Japan’s biggest trading house, proposed to buy the Norwegian fishery Cermaq ASA for $1.4 billion to expand its foods business and become the world’s second-largest salmon farmer.
    • Bloomberg
    • 22 September 2014
    In race to develop Myanmar, government grabs farmland for factories
    Myanmar's government has entered into a major development agreement with a consortium of Japanese companies to build tech, food and textile factories. But to make room, some farmers are being evicted and losing their livelihood.
    • PBS
    • 17 July 2013
    Grobocopatel invierte en agroquímicos
    Compró la firma Agrofina con un plan por $ 400 millones para desarrollar productos de alto valor; vendió su participación en una empresa en Brasil a la japonesa Mitsubishi Corporation.
    • La Nación
    • 03 June 2013
    Mitsubishi to control grain company Los Grobo Ceagro do Brasil-Nikkei
    Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp plans to acquire a majority stake in Brazilian grain company Los Grobo Ceagro do Brasil in a deal worth about 50 billion yen (US$495 million)
    • Reuters
    • 01 June 2013
    Los Grobo says Brazil expansion to spur revenue
    Los Grobo plans to expand its cultivation in Brazil to 90,000 hectares in the 2012/13 crop year from 60,000 hectares today.
    • Reuters
    • 01 June 2012
    Mitsubishi increases grain supply in Brazil
    Mitsubishi Corp. recently announced plans to acquire 20% of farmland operator Los Grobo Ceagro do Brasil S.A.(Ceagro) for about 3.5 billion yen. The companies also agreed on Mitsubishi’s prerogative to purchase grain preferentially from Ceagro.
    • World-Grain.com
    • 05 Mar 2012
    ACT touts for heavy investments in agriculture Kilimo Kwanza food exports
    Tanzania should seize the opportunity of rising food prices by investing in smallholder farmers and allow large scale foreign investors targeting exports, Agriculture Council of Tanzania (ACT) Chairman, Salum Shamte has said.
    • Tanzania Daily News
    • 18 April 2011
    Korean investor wins permit for Papua food estate
    As many foreign and local investor are seeking to win a license to invest in the giant agriculture project in Papua, Indonesia, one unnamed South Korean investor has obtained a permit. Mitsubishi is also bidding. Binladin Group has been rejected.
    • Tempo Interaktif
    • 10 February 2010
    Japan ready to fund agriculture activities in Merauke
    Several companies like Mitsubishi Corporation are interested in promoting Merauke as a new rice barn in Asia.
    • Tempo Interactive
    • 05 October 2009

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