SSJFZ is a unique platform which integrates multiple Singapore elements with local application across its entire "farm to table" process.
Some six years after about 2,000 families were pushed off 19,000 hectares of land that was converted to plantation for sugarcane, which is processed into sugar used by Coca-Cola.
- VoA Khmer
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30 October 2015
Instead of taking suggestions on board from CSOs or its own monitoring bodies, the World Bank continues to push its agenda at the expense of small-scale farmers.
The level of Chinese investment in the Australian beef supply chain appears certain to increase as China hunts for new food sources to feed its one and half billion citizens. Nine Chinese companies have outlaid almost $430 million on Australian beef cattle holdings and downstream red meat supply chain.
- Beef Central
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28 October 2015
Bamboo Finance and Louis Dreyfus Holding are partnering to launch an impact investment fund focusing on the agribusiness sector in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Government inaction in the face of corporate lands grabs is threatening the survival of local Indigenous communities.
PriceWaterhouse Coopers' China desk leader says clients he advises on food and agriculture deals are mostly property developers and building materials companies looking to shift their capital base abroad, given the headwinds in the Chinese construction sector.
- Financial Review
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27 October 2015
Racecourse Projects, owned by Cargill's Black River Asset Management and Mackay Sugar, has purcahsed a 3,244 hectare cattle property in North Queensland.
AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina proposed the creation of the agricultural corridors to attract investments into the rural areas of Africa in his address to the opening session of the 'Feeding Africa ' conference in Dakar
A new video by LifeMosaic, part of the series “Territories of Life“, looks at the impacts of the enormous land grab affecting indigenous peoples around the world.
- REDD Monitor
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22 October 2015
The government of Saskatchewan has tightened its already stringent land ownership rules, prohibiting out pension funds and any business with any overseas-issued debt on its books, from owning land.
- Agrimoney
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22 October 2015
400 landless families occupied the Sol Agricola Farm, owned by Chongqing Grain Group and located in the municipality of São Lourenço do Sul, in the southern region of Rio Grande do Sul state.