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La société Senhuile, qui au départ devait produire du biocarburant, s'est accaparé 20 000 hectares de terres au Sénégal, au détriment des éleveurs locaux. (Photo : Seyllou/AFP)
Proterra may seek to expand in agricultural production, meat processing, aquaculture, industrial minerals and base metals in emerging markets from Latin America to the Sub-Saharan Africa to Australia, Ned Dau, head of investor relations, said in a telephone interview Monday. The strategies may range from farming land with a local partner to increasing efficiency in mines, Dau said.
Ce sont les petits paysans qui nourrissent les populations du Sud (Photo:IFPRI-IMAGES/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Le négociateur palestinien Saeb Erekat montre une carte pendant qu'il parle aux médias du projet israélien de s'approprier des terres dans la Vallée jourdane près de la ville cisjordanienne de Jerico, le 20 janvier 2016. Photo : Mohamed Torokman / Reuters
The frontrunner in Haiti's rigged election grabbed land from peasant farmers to grow bananas for export. Photo: Joshua Steckley.
The frontrunner in Haiti's rigged election grabbed land from peasant farmers to grow bananas for export. Photo: Joshua Steckley.
Grain grower John Nicoletti has agreed to sell his farms for about $35 million to a Chinese company with strong links to the family of Li Ka-shing, one of Asia’s richest men. (Photo: Nic Ellis/The West Australian)
Denis Sassou-Nguesso, président du Congo, lors de l'ouverture de l'usine Eco Oil Energy, en août 2015. (Photo: Le Monde)
One of Welt Bio's plantations in Cambodia. Welt Bio appears to be owned by the South Korean confectionary company Sam Kwang Food (Photo: Welt Bio's facebook page)
The New Zealand dairy farms were bought by Ramsay Dairy Farm Limited, wholly owned by Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment (PSP) Board. PSPI is one of Canada's largest pension investment managers, with about C$112 billion of assets. It invests pension funds for Canada's public service as well as its forces and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The Kingfisher Pension Scheme’s head of pensions, Dermot Courtier (pictured left) and pension investment manager, Matt Fuller (right). Last year, the pension scheme began investing in farmland through a global farmland fund managed by Insight Investment Management
"The bilateral investment protection agreement between India and Ethiopia protects me. Touch me, then you will see the power of India," says Sai Ramakrishina Karuturi, founder and managing director of Karuturi Global Ltd.
Ethnic minority villagers from Pech Chreada district hold placards during a demonstration in Mondulkiri to raise awareness about ongoing disputes with Socfin earlier this year. ADHOC
Residents of Kadenge Village, Kenya protest on September 4, 2015 against plans by sugar miller Dominion Farms to construct a sugar factory in the area. (Photo: Tom Otieno/Nation)
The chief of Benggeris village in West Kutai, Indonesia says a mining company and an oil palm firm have violated his village’s northern and southern borders. (Photo: Philip Jacobson)
Chinese businessman Lu Xianfeng is behind the bid for dairy company Van Diemen's Land Company in Australia.
According to the HLH Group's website, the company acquired two properties in the same province totalling approximately the same area in February 2015 from Chhin Chanpor (former Phnom Penh municipal police commander) and Chan Phaly.
Affected community member showing an area earmarked for a large scale agricultural project, Bagani Village, Namibia.
Chinnakannan Sivasankaran, “one of the world’s largest farmland holders”, allegedly used bankruptcy for fun and profit.
Zimbabwean workers reap wheat on a farm under the Zim-China Wanjin Agricultural Development Co Ltd. (Photo: China Daily)
