Cargill’s global asset management business, Black River, has recently extended its Australian agricultural land asset portfolio, buying two Queensland cattle grazing properties near Mackay for conversion into higher-return sugarcane production.
- Beef Central
-
02 December 2015
This study investigates the processes and impact of commercialisation of land in Malawi – specifically the acquisition of huge tracts of communal lands by foreign companies and local elites for sugarcane production.
Nigerian communities respond to Wilmar with a formal statement regarding the company's operations, accompanied by a short video:
This is the "Executive Version" of the 2015 loan agreement between a group of European development banks and the DR Congo oil palm plantation company Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC)
- DEG et al.
-
02 December 2015
China aims to build a number of large-scale agricultural groups that it will encourage to step out of the country through establishing joint ventures with foreign firms or conducting mergers and acquisitions.
The expansion of oil palm plantations around the tropical world presents a fierce assault on the climate in the name of corporate profits.
Wanjin Agricultural Development Company operates 10 farms in a venture with Zimbabwe's Ministry of Defense with a total land size exceeding 10,000 ha and it hopes to have acquired 40,000 ha more by 2018.
Vietnamese company Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group has invested in Cambodia so that it could have large areas for mechanized and automatic dairy farming.
A public meeting by the Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles, Paris, December 10.
Study shows that the concentration of agricultural land in Europe constitutes a major threat to sustainable small- and medium-scale agriculture and young farmers
- Maria Heubuch
-
30 November 2015
African Agriculture Fund Policy Statement Regarding Tax and Transparency
Canadian oil palm company operating oil palm plantations and arable farming operations in the DRC announces another $5 million placement by the African Agriculture Fund, which is funded by several development finance institutes.
- Marketwired
-
27 November 2015