The Matopiba region is home to the majority of the Cerrado’s remaining vegetation, and, conversely, among the highest deforestation and fire rates in Brazil.
Mega-traders Cargill and Bunge are exporting soya from an agricultural estate in Brazil with a long record of violence, illegality, and environmental destruction, a Greenpeace International investigation has uncovered
- Greenpeace
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03 December 2019
Portrait of a Brazilian businessman accused of violent land grabbing whose clients include Cargill, Bunge and the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA).
- Brasil Reporter
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02 September 2018
KKR and Bunge have expressed interest in buying 88% of PT Golden Plantation, which owns 49,000 hectares of oil palm plantations in Kalimantan, Riau and Sumatra, Indonesia
Governments in a number of countries are trying to address concerns about land grabbing by closing their borders to foreign investors. Are these restrictions effective? Not really, says GRAIN.
US food giant Bunge has been implicated in a sugarcane scandal in Brazil that has kept an entire indigenous community off its land, polluted streams and inflicted illness and death on Guarani Indians.
- Survival
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15 November 2012
Perusahaan manufaktur makanan ini rajin mengakuisisi sejumlah perusahaan di sektor pertanian dan perkebunan
The Government of Singapore Investment Corp, one of the world's biggest sovereign wealth funds, has taken a 5 percent stake in commodities trader and farmland owner Bunge Ltd.
The palm oil industry is "at the dawn of a new period of expansion" in part thanks to increasing interest from food groups, which are moving into production to ensure supplies of an increasingly important commodity.
- Agrimoney
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05 December 2011
Under the terms of the agreement, Bunge will acquire 35% of PT Bumiraya Investindo, a subsidiary of TPS Food, which has 25,000 ha in palm oil concessions in Indonesia.
- PR Newswire
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02 November 2011
While Brazil touts its efforts to slow destruction of the Amazon, another biodiverse region of the country is being cleared for large-scale farming. But unlike the heralded rainforest it borders, the loss of the cerrado and its rich tropical savanna so far has failed to attract much notice.
"Tem muita gente que comprou fazendas aqui pelo preço de uma carteira de cigarro (o hectare)", comenta Ribamar Mateus, da empresa imobiliária JRM.