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Saudi-based SAK plans $100 mln Turkey investments despite tense ties
- Reuters
- 17 April 2019
Saudi Arabia-based SAK Consultants is looking into investing in land or forming a partnership with landowners to export vegetables and meat to Saudi Arabia.
Georgia's ban on foreign landowners leaves farmers in limbo
- Reuters
- 17 April 2019
A ban on foreigners owning farmland introduced last year in Georgia's new constitution has made it more difficult for farmers to borrow because the country's mostly foreign-owned banks will no longer accept farmland as collateral.
OIO changes could see more advertising of farmland sales
- Radio NZ
- 17 April 2019
Farmers in New Zealand wanting to sell their land to sell to a foreign buyer might have to advertise their properties more thoroughly than they do now, according to new proposals from the government.
The Declaration on peasants’ rights should become a political tool for agrarian reform and social justice
- LVC
- 17 April 2019
Member organisations of La Via Campesina in Africa, America, Europe, and Asia are confronted by changes in soil use and by landgrabbbing on a massive and alarming scale that is in direct contradiction with popular agrarian reform.
Zambian gov't says partnering with China to boost agricultural production
- Xinhua
- 16 April 2019
Minister of Agriculture Michael Katambo says that Zambia is partnering with foreign investors, especially the Chinese in the farming industry to improve national food production.
World Bank dispossessing rural poor
- IPS
- 16 April 2019
By scoring countries in terms of ease of accessing land for agribusiness, the World Bank's new EBA land indicator seeks to accelerate land privatization and to facilitate corporate access to land in developing countries.
UAE companies one of the biggest landowners in Serbia
- Serbian Monitor
- 15 April 2019
Elite Agro LLC, registered in Abu Dhabi, recently acquired the 100% ownership in Al Rawafed Holding, thus also becoming the owner of 12,000 hectares of arable land in Serbia and one of the largest landowners in the country.
Dufil consolidates on land acquisition, commences compensation to Edo farmers
- Business Day
- 15 April 2019
Following its acquisition of 17,954 ha from the Edo State government for palm oil cultivation, Dufil Prima Foods has embarked on a crop compensation payment to 1,628 farmers across 14 communities.
Successive land attacks stoke fear in Brazil's Amazon
- Al Jazeera
- 12 April 2019
At least six people have been killed in a series of deadly Amazon land conflicts in Brazil, stoking fears of rising violence in the region under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.
Spreading Arabs in Serbia own 12,000 hectares, main competitors Matijevic and Kostic
- Blic
- 12 April 2019
Abu Dhabi-based Elite Agro LLC, a cereal-producing company, recently acquired 100 percent ownership of AL Rawafed Holding, making the Arab company the owner of 12,000 hectares of arable land in Serbia and joining the group of leading domestic landowners.
Top Abraaj executives arrested on US fraud charges
- Reuters
- 11 April 2019
Founder and CEO of the firm that was active in the rush to buy global farmland on the heels of the 2008 financial crisis has been arrested for defrauding investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Indigenous groups warn of 'apocalypse' with Brazil's Bolsonaro
- France24
- 10 April 2019
Brazil's Alliance of Indigenous Peoples warned about President Bolsonaro's pledges to allow more farming and logging in the Amazon, and called on the EU to put pressure by refusing import of Brazil's agricultural products unless guaranteed that it's not comes from native lands or violated indigenous people's rights.