The CCL Kazakhstan ‘Silk Road’ Agriculture Growth Fund has financed a dairy-commodity farm in the Akmola region of Kazakhstan – Aina dairy farm LLP – for $10.4m, by purchasing a majority stake.
- Dairy Reporter
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10 January 2018
Indonesian NGOs protest police security forces shooting at one of Wilmar International’s oil palm plantations in Central Kalimantan in Indonesian Borneo.
An increase in land grabbing in Uganda has pushed Slow Food to launch a campaign against it
- Slow Food
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09 January 2018
Charoen Pokphand is building another facility in China, located outside the city of Hengshui in Hebei province near Beijing. The facility will add 100 million broilers to its poultry production in the country and keep it ahead of local rivals like Guangdong Wens Foodstuff Group Co and the Tongwei Group.
- Global meat news
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09 January 2018
Jeudi 5 janvier, le Château Bellefont Belcier dans le Bordelais est devenu propriété de Peter Kwok, un investisseur chinois.
The chief investment officer for the University of Illinois Foundation is aiming to make farmland about 10 percent of the $1.8 billion endowment portfolio she oversees.
- Bloomberg
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04 January 2018
China's Drex Food Group is said to be investing US$400m in dairy farms and milk processing facilities in Vitebsk Oblast in Belarus.
- just-food
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04 January 2018
Kiev keeps putting off land reforms, despite pressure from the IMF and investors.
- Bloomberg
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04 January 2018
Turkey-Sudan Business Council Chair Mehmet Ali Korkmaz indicated that 780,000 hectares of land leased by Turkey in Sudan would be open to Turkish investors and agriculture production, doubling Turkey's crop.
- Daily Sabah
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04 January 2018
Nearly 200 square kilometers of forest have been cleared in Merauke, Indonesia's Papua region since 2014 for the plantation, with 10 square kilometers being opened up just since October.
The raising number of the land conflicts highlighting 2017 records in Indonesia. More than six hundred thousand families living in more than five hundred acres of land were impacted. Plantation sector is still dominating agrarian conflict with two hundred and eight cases found.
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan announces the acquisition of Jasper Farms, Australia's second-largest avocado producer.