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Karuturi faces Stanbic hammer
- Business Daily
- 06 Mar 2018
The auction of Karuturi, one of the largest flower firms in the country, marks yet another dark chapter in the company’s dramatic fall from grace
Koh Kong communities protest sugar land concessions
- Licadho
- 06 Mar 2018
More than 100 villagers from communities affected by land grabbing in Koh Kong’s Sre Ambel district demonstrated outside a factory owned by Koh Kong Sugar Industry Co. Ltd.
Harvard blew $1 billion in bet on tomatoes, sugar, and eucalyptus
- Bloomberg
- 01 Mar 2018
Harvard bet the farm in Brazil and lost. The university, which invested at least $150 million in a mega farm project in country's northeast, is now exiting, according to people familiar with the matter.
Abu Dhabi’s efforts to boost local agricultural production
- OBG
- 28 February 2018
Abu Dhabi-based Jenaan Investment has a new joint venture with the government of Sudan to farm 10,000 ha there to produce fodder for livestock in the UAE.
Indian-owned firm's $30 mn investment aims to revive agriculture in Ghana
- IANS
- 28 February 2018
Park Agrotech, which is part of the Skylark Group, has established a poultry farm, feed mill and a fruits, vegetables and cereals farm on 4,000 acres of land at Lake Volta in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
African agriculture: Official urges U.S. to change approach as smart business
- T&D
- 28 February 2018
The president of the African Development Bank says that this year it will launch the Africa Investment Forum as a transactional platform to leverage global pension funds and other institutional investors to invest in African agriculture
Breaking new ground: Investigating and prosecuting land grabbing as an international crime
- UBC
- 28 February 2018
Since 2000, governments, financial investors, and corporations have been involved in land deals covering over 38.9 million ha of land in developing countries, with many of these constituting illegal “land grabs” in violation of international law.
China started to buy aggressively agriculture land abroad
- Finance Apprise
- 26 February 2018
China started to buy aggressively agriculture land abroad and already directed interest to the French wheat. In France, the authorities learned lately about the acquisition of 1,700 hectares of cereal crops in central France thanks to clever attorney’s tricks.
Chinese billionaire sees a goldmine in French fields
- AFP
- 26 February 2018
Over the past four years Hu Keqin, owner of the Reward Group, has quietly snapped up 3,000 hectares of wheat fields in the central Indre and Allier regions of France.
China, voracious buyer of foreign agricultural land
- The Star
- 25 February 2018
A Chinese tycoon's purchase of vast wheat fields in France highlights China's increasing acquisition of foreign farmland as the Asian giant seeks to keep up with its massive population's growing appetite.
Businessman Karuturi booked for sexually harassing spa staffer
- Times of India
- 23 February 2018
Indian businessman Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi has been booked for allegedly sexually harassing a 23-year-old woman staffer of a spa centre in Bengaluru and abusing policemen who rushed to her help.
Public Note: In the Cerrado of Piaui, Brazil, communities suffer violations and lose their land
- CPT et al.
- 23 February 2018
Groups once again publicly denounce the alarming increase in violence and violations of rights of the communities in the Cerrado in Piauí, part of the region where the federal government is implementing its Matopiba Agricultural Development Plan