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PT Pusaka Agro Lestari, a subsidiary of Singapore-based Noble Group, is proceeding with a controversial oil palm plantation that is said to threaten the survival of the Kamoro people along the coast of Mimika Regency. (Photo: Husyen Abdillah)
Private equity firm TIAA-CREF has secured $1.4bn for its second agriculture fund from three unnamed investors, according to a document filed with the SEC.
The pan-African parliamentarian campaign against what is referred to as land grab by investors from developed countries is the brainchild of Mr Sisa Njikelana, former members of the South African Parliament
Straw-stuffed effigies lie on the ground in Kampong Chhnang province’s Lorpeang village yesterday during a hexing ritual held by the local community against KDC International.
12 August: authorities confront villagers in Kampong Chhnang after villagers tried to march to Phnom Penh to raise concerns over a land row with KDC International. (Photo: Heng Chivoan)
New York retirement fund manager TIAA-CREF agreed last week to purchase 30,959 acres of farmland in Hendry County, Fla. from Alico Inc. for $91,436,000.
Small scale farmers marching on South Africa's Parliament to protest against a number of issues including the slow pace of land reform and the use of GM maize seed. Photo: Sandiso Phaliso/WCN
The Safra Group - best known for the Safra National Bank of New York, Banco Safra in Brazil and Bank Jacob Safra in Switzerland - already owns farmland.
Westchester is estimated to have quietly invested about $120 million on big grain-growing properties in Western Australia since 2008, and up to $900 million in agricultural land across Australia.
"China has ensured that it will retain its strategic assets, including the domestic ownership of land. It encourages overseas investment in areas that it wants to develop rather than selling its assets to the highest bidder. Perhaps it is time to consider similar policies in New Zealand." (Photo: Fonterra farm in China / Reuters)
Deputy Energy and Petroleum Minister Benjamin Dagadu said the government of Ghana was also ready to allocate fertile agriculture land on long lease to Punjabi farmers.
Some in the farming sector worry that Shanghai Pengxin's plans for vertical integration and the control of dairy production from farm through to processing could leave New Zealand as "just a backdrop" for a fully foreign-owned and run industry. (In the photo, William Rolleston, president of New Zealand's Federated Farmers.)
Au départ, le gouvernement kenyan discutait du projet avec le Qatar, qui voulait construire le port en échange de 16 200 ha de terres cultivables pour son propre approvisionnement horticole. (Photo : La destruction des forêts mangrove pour le développement du port)
The Director of Green Scenery, Joseph Rahall (right), welcoming delegates to the Conference on Land and the Constitution, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 23-24 June 2014.
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Guinea's Minister of Trade, Marc Yombouno, with KGV's Executive Director after signing an agreement giving the Malaysian company 100,000 ha for the development of oil palm plantations, July 2014. (Photo: Business Wire)
Since 2008, Cambodia has been experiencing a land grabbing crisis. This has seen the equivalent of more than 70% of the country’s arable land leased out to private investors. (Photo: Heng Sinith/Associated Press)
