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Buyout firms look for cash cows in agricultural assets
- Preqin
- 14 July 2014
According to data provider Preqin, there are 25 private equity funds targeting agriculture investments, with a total target of $1.1 billion.
The project for Nacala Corridor: Economic development strategies in the Republic of Mozambique (Version 3)
- JICA
- 11 July 2014
The third version of the PEDEC-Nacala strategies report, July 2014.
When Wall Street went to Africa
- Foreign Policy
- 11 July 2014
A New York tycoon won a sweetheart deal to build a massive "sustainable" palm oil plantation in Cameroon. What followed were accusations of intimidation, corruption, bribery, and deceit.
Fonterra accelerates China drive with Abbott deal
- Agrimoney
- 11 July 2014
New Zealand-based Fonterra, the world's biggest dairy exporter, said that it and Abbott would invest a combined $300m in setting up a so-called "farm hub" in China, to produce "high quality dairy".
ANZ should not leave Cambodian community ‘high and dry’
- Equitable Cambodia
- 10 July 2014
ANZ’s cutting of ties to Cambodian sugar company implicated in the use of child labour and causing food shortages after forcing hundreds of families off their land.
Agribusiness Report: Foreign purchases and rural property
- NZ Herald
- 09 July 2014
The tiny Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and principality of Monaco have received approval to "invest" in more New Zealand land during the past five years than much-maligned China.
Saudi Agriculture '14 gains global interest on food sustainability
- Saudi Gazette
- 08 July 2014
Riyadh trade show will bring together participants from over 40 countries to facilitate business partnerships as part of Saudi Arabia's drive to encourage businesses to invest in farming operations abroad.
New limits imposed on foreign investors seeking to acquire farmland in Quebec
- Dentons
- 08 July 2014
Concerned parties in the farming community deemed it necessary to amend legislation to ensure that it better reflects today’s economic reality and to counter farmland grabs by foreign investors.
Government, UAE firm set up joint agriculture company
- Tanjung
- 07 July 2014
The first venture of the company will be a EUR 22 million purchase of part of the property of two agricultural enterprises in restructuring - AD Bačka, based in Sivac, and Adria AD, based in Nova Gajdobra.
Settlement in Swazi sugar strike brings important gains for workers
- IUF
- 07 July 2014
Over the course of the strike against Illovo involving some 3,000 workers, union members stood up to intimidation by military and security forces and legal action by the company intended to hamper picketing.
Displacement and dispossession through land grabbing in Mozambique: The limits of international and national legal instruments
- Oxford University
- 07 July 2014
The limits of law to address displacement and dispossession are not due to a lack of institutionalising international good governance norms into domestic-level legal frameworks.
Dropping Phnom Penh Sugar as a client does not let ANZ Bank off the hook for financing human rights abuses
- Equitable Cambodia
- 07 July 2014
ANZ Bank cut its business ties to Phnom Penh Sugar without ensuring redress the grave harms caused to hundreds of families by the plantation that it financed.