The investigative series Indonesia for Sale, shines new light on the corruption behind Indonesia’s deforestation and land rights crisis. The stories expose the role of collusion between palm oil firms and politicians.
Companies launch the Ceres - Sprott Institutional Farmland Fund to provide institutional investors the opportunity to participate in the North American farmland investment market.
- Marketwire
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09 October 2017
Across the continent, insecure rights to land are robbing millions of financial stability and long-term prosperity.
- Project Syndicate
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06 October 2017
Tampieri Financial Group has sold all the shares it held in Senhuile SA to Mr. Gora Seck, who had already taken over as company president, according to a communique
- Ndar Info
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05 October 2017
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has made its first offshore farm investment, taking a stake in Australian beef stud Palgrove for an undisclosed amount.
- NZ Herald
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04 October 2017
"The moratorium on agriculture land sales is a major impediment to attracting investment and unlocking productivity in Ukraine's agricultural sector," says World Bank.
Chinese investment in Australian farmland has risen over the past year from about 1.5 million hectares to almost 14.5 million hectares.
Three-quarters of around 50 conflicts that have erupted in Southeast Asia since 2001 pitting mining, logging or agribusiness giants against indigenous peoples protesting land grabs are still lingering today, researchers reported Tuesday.
88 per cent of land disputes in Southeast Asia are not resolved puts the region above the 61 per cent global average, according to the research, which covers land disputes dating from 2001.
The Malawi Investment and Trade Centre this week emphasized on the need for the public to embrace responsible agriculture investment if Malawi is to avert economic misfortunes it is encountering
- Maravi Post
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03 October 2017
A sugar company involved in a land dispute in Kampong Speu province rebuffed suggestions that it is in part responsible for the temporary shuttering of land rights NGO Equitable Cambodia.
- Phnom Penh Post
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02 October 2017
Nasako Besingi has been jailed after opposing a US-funded palm-oil plantation and supporters say this is linked to Cameroon’s ‘anglophone crisis’