Impact investorAgDevCo expands into Cote d’Ivoire with €8.7M palm oil and cashew investment
      UK-based investor AgDevCo has expanded its geographic reach into Cote d’Ivoire with an €8.7 million investment in DekelOil, an agribusiness leader in the West African palm oil and cashew sectors.This investment brings AgDevCo’s portfolio to more than 40 active investments totaling $170 million across sub-Saharan Africa.
      • Global AgInvesting
      • 12 August 2019
      The great land robbery
      The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms. A war waged by deed of title has dispossessed 98 percent of black agricultural landowners in America.
      • The Atlantic
      • 12 August 2019
      Brothers build multi-million mixed farm in Masindi
      US Ambassador visits large-scale farm of Asili Farms, a US owned-company farming maize and oilseed on 13,500 acres in Uganda.
      • Daily Monitor
      • 11 August 2019
      Failed commercial farms
      Birhanu Fikade of "The Reporter" sat down with Atkyelesh G.M. Persson (PhD) to learn about her findings on large scale FDI that failed to deliver the desired results in Ethiopia
      • The Reporter
      • 10 August 2019
      Karuturi, Saudi Star et al labeled poor performers, less responsible investors
      Scholar and employee of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, Atkyelesh G.M. Persson, recommends that the government, private sector and academia further investigate the potential damages large scale farms have perpetrated in Ethiopia and beyond.
      • The Reporter
      • 10 August 2019
      Bolsonaro ignores fears for Amazon amid record land-grab
      A record amount of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest was cut down or destroyed last month, fuelling concerns that under President Jair Bolsonaro, illegal miners and farmers are involved in a free-for-all land grab.
      • The Australian
      • 09 August 2019
      UAE investments: Al Ravafed at loss, unfinished irrigation systems, state land lease price secret
      The agricultural company Al Ravafed Serbia, a majority-owned company of the same name from the United Arab Emirates, operated 3,500 ha in Karadjordjevo in 2018 with a loss of more than two million euros
      • Insider
      • 08 August 2019
      China investing in Brazil ag
      COFCO announced it will finance the expansion of more than 60 million acres [24 million ha] of soybean production in Brazil.
      • DTN
      • 07 August 2019
      Former MP, investors evict thousands in Kiryandongo
      Kiryandongo Sugar, allegedly owned by some Indians, Agilis, owned by an American called Philip Investor, and Sole Agro Business Company, also owned by Indians, have been named in the evictions of thousands of people in the western districts of Kiryandongo and Masindi in Uganda.
      • The Observer
      • 07 August 2019
      Lao protest villagers held since 2017 have been sentenced
      Nine Lao villagers held for over two years for protesting the loss of land awarded by the government to a Vietnamese rubber company have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from two to six years.
      • Radio Free Asia
      • 06 August 2019
      Macquarie’s agriculture company extends its land clearing with precision farming
      Macquarie Bank has come under fire for land clearing operations undertaken by Viridis Ag, a farming enterprise owned by the banking group’s agricultural investment management business, Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Asset.
      • Fifth Estate
      • 06 August 2019
      Land returns after complaint to World Bank offer hope to indigenous villagers
      After a decade of hardship, indigenous villagers in Cambodia scored a significant victory after they put pressure on the World Bank Group over its financial ties to a land-grabbing company, Vietnam agribusiness giant HAGL.
      • VoA Cambodia
      • 05 August 2019

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