A private collection of some of the world’s fanciest cars, belonging to Hubert Fabri, a Belgian millionaire and co-owner of the plantation company SOCFIN, will be auctioned at a sale at the Hampton Court Palace in London.
- Oakland Institute
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04 September 2020
Indonesia's Minister of State-Owned Enterprises said that the aim was to boost food security in the country and improve the quality of domestically grown products to give them export value, with a view to exporting to countries in Africa and the Middle East.
- FruitNet
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04 September 2020
Israeli and Dutch firms, backed by the Dutch export credit agency, have signed a €108mn deal to construct four agriculture production and training centres across Côte d’Ivoire.
The scheme is devised by Green 2000, an Israel-headquartered company that specialises in agriculture projects. It involves the construction of four agriculture services and training centres, which provide land, facilities and machinery for producing fruit, vegetables, fish and other products.
- GTE Review
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04 September 2020
State radio reported last week that hog farm expansions financed by the World Bank in Henan’s Nanyang had allegedly taken farmland illegally from wheat farmers, threatening the nation’s grain security.
- Bloomberg
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01 September 2020
First-ever database reveals true scope of financing of forest-risk commodity companies, amidst global rainforest fires
- Forests & Finance
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01 September 2020
Numerous women say they were raped by workers of three multinational companies that have been evicting people off a chunk of land in Uganda measuring about 37.8 square miles to establish large scale commercial farms.
- Observer
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01 September 2020
Thousands of families say they have been displaced from their homes to make way for commercial farms
Agilis Partners has released a statement denying all allegations of land grabbing and assuring the public and its stakeholders that they have not evicted anyone from their land.
- Uganda Tribune
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27 August 2020
Over the past two decades, Cambodia’s land leasing policy has led to more than a tenth of the country’s land area being leased and has become increasingly controversial because of its negative impact on local livelihoods.
- Radio Free Asia
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26 August 2020
More than 35,000 people from over 20 villages are homeless after being evicted from about 9,300 acres of land in Kiryandongo, Uganada to pave way for large scale farming. Foreign investors dealing in agribusiness have been blamed for the ongoing land grabbing.
- New Vision
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26 August 2020
About 100 farmers’ households have been exploiting the area for decades and do not intend to leave it.
- BusinessInCameroon
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25 August 2020
Victims of land grabbing in Kiryandongo district, Uganda have come out to decry the deplorable conditions that they are subjected to by the land evictors at the hand of security officials.
- Soft Power
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25 August 2020