Farmland investment platform to offer rare returns data for investors, farmers

• Agfunder News
• 25 August 2015

Map Of Agriculture says it is well positioned to serve the comparative farming system benchmarking needs of farmland investors.

Will KLK proceed with the corrupt Sepik oil palm deal?

• Act Now
• 24 August 2015

PNG’s Minister for Trade, Commerce and Industry sign a Heads of Agreement that would make KLK an equity partner in development of 37,000 ha oil palm project in East Sepik’s Special agriculture Economic Zone(SEZ).

On the take

• World Ark
• 23 August 2015

As climate change, population growth and environmental damage shrink the amount of arable land on the planet, wealthier countries and corporations look to developing countries for land.

Super fund's $150m farm buy

• Farm Weekly
• 21 August 2015

First State Super follows US and Canadian super funds with major investment in Australian almond plantations.

Agriculture investing: growing fields of green

• unquote
• 20 August 2015

A substantial payout could be in store for private equity firms willing to take on the risk and plough capital into the farming business.

Agribusiness on rise in north Uganda region where rebels fought

• Reuters
• 20 August 2015

Investors have poured tens of millions of dollars into a war torn landscape in northern Uganda now dotted with tracts of maize, rice, sunflower, sesame and commercial forests.

China agriculture: Seeds of hope

• AVCJ
• 19 August 2015

If Black Soil Capital Partners gets its way, the fields of Heilongjiang will be consolidated under long-term leases from farmers, giving way to a modern, industrialized US-style business model.

Cambodian government takes umbrage at US Congressman’s comments on land grabs

• RFA
• 18 August 2015

Hearing in the US will examine how land grabbing has significantly impacted the lives of Filipinos and Cambodians and the involvement of U.S. officials charged with promoting development in these countries.

Norway’s wealth fund expels POSCO, Daewoo Int’l over palm oil holdings

• Mongabay
• 18 August 2015

Norway’s central bank is divesting the country’s $870 billion pension fund of its holdings in four Asian multinationals for palm oil in Southeast Asia. POSCO and Daewoo were excluded for the activities in Merauke, Indonesia’s Papua province.

Large food firms back voluntary plan to stop land grabbing

• Reuters
• 17 August 2015

Global food giants and international NGOs have drafted a framework to prevent land grabs just as hedge funds, companies and plantation owners race to acquire new territory.

FGV aims to seal deal for Eagle High stake by end-October

• Deal Street Asia
• 17 August 2015

Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (FGV) aims to enter into a definitive agreement for its proposed acquisition of Indonesian palm oil company PT Eagle High Plantations Tbk by October 31 this year.

Burma: Land rights activists are newest political prisoners

• HRW
• 15 August 2015

Arrests in Karen State target those assisting farmers fighting land grabs, says Human Rights Watch.