One Tree Agriculture is owned by private equity fund manager, Proterra Investment Partners, which was spun off in 2016 as an investment advisory and private equity fund manager by Cargill’s Black River Asset Management.
- Grain Central
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17 July 2018
Myanmar should move quickly to settle decades-old claims by farmers forced from their land by the country’s military, said Human Rights Watch in new report,adding that the government should also put new laws in place to protect farmers and other small landholders from further land grabs in the future.
- Radio Free Asia
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17 July 2018
During the first ever feminist school in Uganda, the Rural Women’s Movement underlined that land is central to people’s identity, livelihoods and food security.
Human Rights Watch submission to the Universial Periodic Review of Cambodia, assessment since Cambodia’s previous UPR in 2014 in various sector including land grabbing.
- Human Rights Watch
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13 July 2018
Authorities are trying to harden the conditions for foreign land purchases after a study by the European Parliament found that around 40 percent of the Romanian agricultural land is owned by foreign citizens.
- Business Review
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12 July 2018
EU delegation is in Cambodia on fact-finding mission to evaluated the issue of displaced peoples locked in land disputes with several sugar companies across the country particularly in Koh Kong, Preah Vihear and Oddar Meanchey provinces.
In his talk, Environmentalist Nasako Besingi shares how he has faced governmental censorship, imprisonment, and even death threats for his work defending community lands and forests in southern Cameroon.
- Oslo Freedom Forum
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11 July 2018
“In the long term, South America, and the Black Sea area still have great potential in their arable land, and can play a bigger role in the global soybean supply system,” says the president of state grains trader COFCO.
The Bukhoro-Agro free economic zone is expected to host local and foreign investment in greenhouses, offering special tax and customs regimes valid on its territory and financing from international financial institutions
The EU could commit to only import legal palm oil into the EU and engage in a dialogue with Indonesia to improve governance of palm oil production, says FERN
Naivasha-based flower firm Karuturi has sued Stanbic Bank and four receiver managers for allegedly thwarting its revival through mismanagement and secret acquisition of loans.
Dangote said he would expand the project and exploit what he called Katsina’s vast arable land for other agriculture initiatives and allied business ventures.