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PNG: Billionaire financiers erode food sovereignty, says new report
- Pacific Media Centre
- 14 October 2014
Siva Group's oil palm plantation land deal in Papua New Guinea described as "one of the worst land development schemes ever".
UkrLandFarming seeks funds to buy troubled rivals
- Agrimoney
- 14 October 2014
UkrLandFarming, the Ukraine agriculture giant in which Cargill bought a stake in January, is seeking further investors to fund a warchest for buying on the cheap groups brought low by the country's crisis.
EBRD and private sector ready to invest in Ukraine’s agribusiness
- UkrAgroConsult
- 14 October 2014
EBRD's agribusiness clients say they want a functional land lease market that will eliminate land tenure issues.
Agribusiness land rush in Palawan must end: Calling for a moratorium on oil palm expansion
- CALG
- 14 October 2014
Palawan, in spite of its unique recognition as a UNESCO Man & Biosphere Reserve, has not been spared from massive investments in extractive resources and industrial agriculture, especially oil palm development.
Obtala Resources' own fruit plan further expands Morogoro operations
- Proactive Investors
- 13 October 2014
The land covers 204 hectares, is 235km from the port at Dar es Salaam and is next door to Obtala’s existing tomato, fruit and pepper farm.
Twiga Farm - the story of a Kenyan Land grab
- Pambazuka
- 10 October 2014
The collusion of local, national and international money and power is more and more legalizing the disowning of people of their lands in the name of economic growth, development or investment.
Ivory Coast on quest to become West Africa's rice bowl
- Reuters
- 10 October 2014
The government has signed investment agreements with foreign companies including France's Louis Dreyfus Commodities, Algeria's Cevital, Export Trading Group of Singapore and Switzerland's Ameropa.
Sime unit makes RM5.6bil conditional general offer for NBPOL
- The Star
- 10 October 2014
The offer for New Britain Palm Oil Ltd would give Sime Darby over 140,000 ha of oil palm and sugar plantations in Papua New Guinea, as wells as 28,000 ha of lands on which to expand.
Philippines: Local Palawaños stand strong against oil palm expansion
- Intercontinental Cry
- 09 October 2014
Oil palm development should never have been initiated in Palawan, the last ecological frontier of the Philippines
Westchester Group appoints Martin Davies to lead farmland investing programme in Europe
- propertyfundsworld
- 09 October 2014
Davies will be responsible for managing the European platform for Westchester, a TIAA-CREF majority-owned global agricultural asset manager, as well as building the firm’s direct farmland investment business in Europe.
Karuturi still going down
- TJN et al
- 09 October 2014
Karuturi Global Ltd, the Indian multinational that made its name in the global cut flower industry and recently acquired more than 300,000 ha in Ethiopia to produce food, is continuing its painful and massive decline.
Land grab complaint against ANZ filed with OECD
- Cambodia Daily
- 09 October 2014
NGOs have filed a new complaint against Australia’s ANZ Bank claiming it owes compensation to 681 Cambodian families who say their farms were illegally grabbed by a sugarcane plantation the bank helped to finance.