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Ukraine: MPs apply to Constitutional Court seeking to lift farmland sale moratorium
- Interafx
- 20 February 2017
An appeal signed by 55 lawmakers has been sent to the Constitutional Court seeking to lift farmland sale moratorium in Ukraine.
Brazil pushes on with plan to open farmland sales to foreigners
- Thompson Reuters Foundation
- 16 February 2017
Brazil says it is pushing ahead with plans to change the law and let foreigners buy farmland, in a move widely backed by investors and opposed by land rights campaigners.
China's SINOCONST to invest in Belarusian agricultural industry
- For Security
- 16 February 2017
Joint Belarusian-Chinese company JSC SP ABC-Invest will implement an investment project in the agricultural industry in Minsk Oblast. The project will upgrade a pig farm (capacity of 11,500 head per year) and meat processing plant among other things.
Siaya MCAs vow to kick out Dominion Farms CEO Burgess from Yala Swamp
- K24TV
- 16 February 2017
Siaya MCAs have now vowed to kick out American investor and Dominion farms CEO Calvin Burgess from Yala swamp, accusing him of belittling the community by peddling falsehoods.
Russian farmland 'retains allure', despite Black Earth Farming exit
- Agrimoney
- 16 February 2017
Russia's farmland market remains attractive to investors, both foreign and domestic, despite the apparent snub presented by Black Earth Farming's decision to quit, with prices soaring by up to 60% last year.
Stolen SABL land would reach all the way to the moon
- Act Now
- 15 February 2017
Fifty two thousand square kilometres of customary land has been stolen in the SABL land grab in Papua New Guinea.
Kenya: No Valentine’s Day rose from Karuturi flower farm, again
- The Nation
- 14 February 2017
Three years later after going into receivership, hopes of revival are a withering prospect and hundreds of families that once formed a thriving community revolving around the Naivasha-based company are living in squalor.
Black Earth Farming unveils $200m sell-out to Russian buyer
- Agrimoney
- 14 February 2017
Black Earth Farming revealed it had agreed, in essence, a $200m takeover by a Russia's Kukura family in the most high profile of a series of retreats by foreign investors from the Black Sea agricultural market.
Obliterating legal rights in large scale land deals in Sierra Leone
- Awoko
- 13 February 2017
The present crop of large-scale land lease agreements with MNCS in Sierra Leone are fraught with serious, challengeable, and voidable provisions. If they are not renegotiated, then going to court for specific impact litigation will be the only way out.
Lao farm products to enjoy tariff exemptions
- Vientiane Times
- 11 February 2017
Unprocessed Lao farm products raised and grown by Vietnamese investors in the 10 Lao provinces that share a border with Vietnam will enjoy tariff and value-added tax exemptions when exported to Vietnam.
Japanese agribusinesses eye Vietnam's agriculture
- VN Economic Times
- 10 February 2017
In 2016, Japanese investors secured licenses for 341 new agriculture projects in Vietnam with investment capital totaling $868 million, while 219 existing project added capital of nearly $1.3 billion.
Sudan: Investment Minister welcomes Djiboutian desire to invest in agricultural sector
- SNA
- 10 February 2017
The Djiboutian minister expressed his country's desire to invest in the agricultural sector in Sudan to achieve food security, depending on President Al-Bashir's Initiative on Arab Food Security.