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Hard Facts, episoe 8 "HM"
- TV4
- 21 November 2014
Sweden's TV4 investigates the multinational retail clothing company H&M's possible involvement in landgrabbing in Ethiopia.
Salim preempts San Miguel, ties up with Malaysia’s Kuok
- Manila Standard
- 20 November 2014
First Pacific's partnership with Kuok may have virtually killed San Miguel’s planned $1-billion joint agriculture project with the Malaysian tycoon.
MoU signed for agricultural investment fund
- SUNA
- 20 November 2014
Sudan signs an MOU for the establishment of an agriculture investment fund with a Lebanese company owned by Fras Badra that is pursuing an 87,000 ha alfalfa project.
Palm oil interest surges in Papua New Guinea
- Mongabay
- 19 November 2014
As the lands of traditional palm oil powerhouses like Indonesia and Malaysia have become saturated with plantations, companies looking to profit have turned to areas of tropical forest elsewhere – like Papua New Guinea.
German company to open pig farm in Serbia
- inSerbia
- 19 November 2014
Germany’s largest meat producer Clemens Toennies will finalise a deal for a pig farm with 1,500,000 animal units on 15,000 hectares of land in Serbia.
Greenland in talks to acquire Australian food and wine companies
- Bloomberg
- 18 November 2014
Chinese state-owned company, Greenland Holding Group, is in talks with Australian agricultural companies on possible takeovers and plans to complete its first deal in six months.
China's New Hope to invest in Australian dairy
- Sydney Morning Herald
- 18 November 2014
Chinese giant New Hope will invest up to $500 million in Australian dairy farms in what could be the first of many deals fuelled by the historic China-Australia free trade agreement.
Changing the face of real estate in Angola
- China Daily
- 18 November 2014
China's CITIC Construction says it has developed two 10,000 hectare farms in Angola and will invest $5 billion in a 500,000 hectare farm next year.
Communities as counterparties
- Global Landscapes Forum
- 18 November 2014
Review of concessions and conflict in eight emerging and frontier markets finds more than 93% of mining, oil & gas, logging, and agriculture developments involve inhabited land.
Tony Tiu's AgriNurture swings to loss
- ABS-CBN
- 17 November 2014
Farming revenues also plunged 64 percent, as AgriNurture closed its rice farming operations.
What is inclusive agricultural growth?
- PLAAS
- 17 November 2014
Agricultural investment, productivity and land rights in the context of large-scale investments
Australia: US fund pays $30m for Queensland grain farms
- Financial Review
- 17 November 2014
Black River Asset Management, a subsidiary of Cargill, one of the world's biggest food producers, has bought four grain-producing farms in the Darling Downs farming region between Dalby and Chinchilla.