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Vineyard seizures highlight French worries about Chinese investments
- Nikkei
- 05 July 2018
Judicial police say they have found evidence of money laundering and the use of irregular documents in the acquisition of vineyards.
Kazakhstan invites foreign investment in agro-industrial sector
- Times of Central Asia
- 05 July 2018
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture Umirzak Shukeyev says there are many advantages for foreign companies investing in agriculture in Kazakhstan, such as the availability of 180 million ha of natural pastures.
Executives of palm oil giant Wilmar resign a week after Greenpeace report
- Eco-Business
- 05 July 2018
The decision was announced a week after Greenpeace issued a report that exposed links to Gama Plantation, a palm oil business that Greenpeace accused of destroying rainforest twice the size of Paris in Papua, Indonesia.
Congo faces $20 mln arbitration claim over failed farming project
- Reuters
- 05 July 2018
A South African company says it has filed for arbitration against Democratic Republic of Congo’s government, seeking to recover nearly $20 million it says it is owed from a failed agriculture project.
PNG villagers count huge cost of damage from logging
- Radio NZ
- 03 July 2018
Communities in Papua New Guinea's West Pomio District will suffer more than $US73 million worth of damage due to Special Agriculture Business Leases, according to a local advocacy group Act Now.
Liberia: Another SDI report finds GVL in Sinoe land grab, deforestation
- FrontPageAfrica
- 03 July 2018
Report finds that Golden Veroleum Liberia violated the rights of communities to the customary ownership of their lands, violated the Liberian laws and international standards, and even breached its own policies.
Land speculation is leading to human rights violations and eco-destruction in Brazil
- FIAN et al
- 03 July 2018
A new report uncovers how international pension funds, foreign investments and institutions are tearing down any future for rural communities in Northeastern Brazil.
Land dispute settled in Koh Kong
- Khmer Times
- 02 July 2018
Each family agreed, with mixed feelings, to accept two hectares of land and $3,000 to end the years-long land dispute between villagers and sugar companies
UAE-based Al Dahra aquires Agricola Braila, the largest agricultural producer in Romania
- Business Reveiw
- 02 July 2018
Investment Fund Al Dahra Holding took over Agricola Braila, the largest agricultural producer in Romania, in a deal estimated at over EUR 230 million euros and involving some 57,000 ha.
UK tops list of foreign investors in Australian agricultural land
- Grain Central
- 02 July 2018
The UK remains the largest foreign owner of Australian farmland, followed by China and the US, according to the Foreign Investment Review Board 2016–17 Annual Report.
Dutch-based banks continue to finance deforestation and land-grabbing
- Milieudefensie
- 02 July 2018
Dutch-based ABN AMRO, ING and Rabobank are structurally involved in scandals concerning destruction of rainforest and land-grabbing in Asia and Africa. Milieudefensie is calling on the banks to cease financing the industrial palm oil sector.
L'Etat ivoirien décide la cession de 30% de ses parts dans Palmafrique
- Commodafrica
- 29 June 2018
Les parts de l’entreprise qui possède 3 sites d’exploitations agro-industrielles reparties sur 7 500 ha seront cedées au groupe Financial BC