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Goldman clients are giving Cadre $250 million to pour into commercial real estate
- Tech Crunch
- 10 January 2018
An online real estate platform co-founded by Jared Kushner and financed by Goldman Sachs says it will expand into farmland deals.
Kazakhstan-Hungarian fund invests in Kazakhstan dairy
- Dairy Reporter
- 10 January 2018
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.
Wilmar International implicated in police shooting of two farmers on oil palm estate
- FPP
- 09 January 2018
Indonesian NGOs protest police security forces shooting at one of Wilmar International’s oil palm plantations in Central Kalimantan in Indonesian Borneo.
The future of Uganda is in danger: Stop land grabbing!
- Slow Food
- 09 January 2018
An increase in land grabbing in Uganda has pushed Slow Food to launch a campaign against it
CP building poultry mega project in key north China
- Global meat news
- 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.
Pourquoi la Chine multiplie-t-elle les acquisitions dans le monde ?
- RTL
- 05 January 2018
Jeudi 5 janvier, le Château Bellefont Belcier dans le Bordelais est devenu propriété de Peter Kwok, un investisseur chinois.
Why the University of Illinois is investing in farmland
- Bloomberg
- 04 January 2018
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.
China's Drex Food 'to invest in Belarus dairy farms'
- just-food
- 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.
Ukraine’s ban on selling farmland is choking the economy
- Bloomberg
- 04 January 2018
Kiev keeps putting off land reforms, despite pressure from the IMF and investors.
Turkey: 780,000 hectares of land in Sudan to boost agricultural crop
- Daily Sabah
- 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.
In early push into Papua, palm oil firms set stage for massive forest plunder
- Mongabay
- 03 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.
Land conflict records in Indonesia throughout 2017
- ILC
- 29 December 2017
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.