Greenpeace Africa, in partnership with Nsang Dilong, Freddy Kristel and Alene Menget, is launching a campaign against land grabbing using videos, an online and offline petition in Cameroon.
- Greenpeace
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13 December 2018
According to a new report by Knight Frank Research, the allure of African agriculture remains strong, attracting private, institutional and sovereign capital from around the world.
- Knight Frank
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11 December 2018
Hungarian legislator Erik Bánki claims his farmland purchases in Romania were financed from loans from foreign and Hungarian companies but he does not remember the names of these companies.
Turkish investors have been cooperating with Kuwaiti businesspeople to invest some $100 million in greenhouses on a 100 hectare area in the Karaali region to export agricultural products to Gulf countries.
- Daily Sabah
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11 December 2018
Making a bet on climate change, the university’s $39 billion endowment has been snapping up farmland and the related water rights
Aurélio Pavinato, CEO of SLC Agrícola SA, says the potential to expand soybean, grains and sugarcane plantations on 43 million hectares in the Cerrado region will "demand heavy investments".
The SOCFIN land acquisition in Malen Chiefdom reads like a collusion between the government and the investor—an alliance of the powerful and wealthy—to strip a community of their most valuable resource.
- Standard Times
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06 December 2018
New report shines a spotlight on the ongoing resistance to land grabs and provides recommendations calling for immediate action, not only by the PNG government but also various UN bodies and national governments.
- War on Want
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06 December 2018
Warakirri says it is already managing discrete agricultural investments for super funds, but this new fund is being set up in response to demand from private family offices, high-net-worth and not-for-profit community
"I think we are in the Goldilocks period of this opportunity right now where the market isn’t too thin or too saturated, but just right," says Artem Milinchuk founder of farmland investment company FarmTogether.
Saudi Arabia and Sudan have launched a new agricultural partnership as part of the implementation of the Arab food security initiative
In Petén, Guatemala, food scarcity is on the rise as arable land shrinks because of land grabbing for oil palm plantations