Youth leaders in the West Sepik Province spent the last 3 months of 2015, spreading the word on the importance of protecting their customary land and how land has been taken throughout the country through Special Agriculture Business Leases (SABL).
The representative of the African Development Bank, Septime Martin, announced Wednesday in Malange, the funding of several public and private projects in the field of agro-industry in Angola.
- Angola Press
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04 December 2015
AAF's $1.8 million purchase of convertible debentures could take the development bank-backed fund's ownership of DR Congo's biggest oil palm plantation company to 47%.
- Marketwired
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04 December 2015
"There is no limit to the scale we can achieve" says Farmland Partners CEO, as his company plans to branch out from US into Australia and New Zealand.
- Agrimoney
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02 December 2015
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
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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)
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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.