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Joint investment in Ugandan feed processor
- The Poultry Site
- 21 October 2013
Private equity firm Pearl Capital Partners and Voxtra have invested $4 million in Biyinzika Enterprises Ltd, a Uganda-based poultry feeds processor and farm operator.
Tanzania: Dar, London for agriculture investment talks
- Tanzania Daily News
- 21 October 2013
UK-Tanzania Agriculture Investment Roundtable begins in London today, in association with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Agriculture was identified as a priority area
Indonesia to invest in Agusan's palm oil
- 19 October 2013
Indonesian investors from two of its government-owned companies are planning to invest in a 60,000 ha palm oil plantation in the Philippines' province.
AgriMin: Bulgarian farm land not lucrative for foreigners
- Novinite
- 19 October 2013
Dimitar Grekov says the Foreign Affairs Parliamentary Committee has rejected a proposed moratorium on the sale of farm land to foreigners
Ethiopia: Highlanders will overtake soon Gode
- Shekosh Report
- 18 October 2013
Huge delegation lead by Ethiopian prime minister Hailemariam is on a tour at Shabelle region to inspect lands prepared for investors.
Shanghai Pengxin poised to buy 2nd NZ dairy farm business
- Reuters
- 18 October 2013
Chinese conglomerate Shanghai Pengxin is poised to buy its second set of dairy farms in New Zealand, the world's leading dairy produce export country, as China's firms increasingly look overseas for sources of milk to meet growing demand at home.
Ethiopia’s land grabs: Stories from the displaced
- InterContinental Cry
- 17 October 2013
Anywaa Survival Organisation (ASO) recently had an opportunity to interview affected community representatives and leaders who fled their homes in Gambela and Lower Omo because of government land grabs.
Colombian farmers risk death to reclaim lost land
- Guardian
- 17 October 2013
The government wants to correct decades of 'land reform in reverse'. But powerful criminal, armed and business interests are ranged against the country's displaced peasants.
‘Land grabbing’ in Africa: Biofuels are not off the hook
- Eco-Business
- 17 October 2013
A new report claims that European demand for biofuels is not to blame for land acquisitions in poorer countries. But evidence suggests that the issue is more complex than the biofuels industry would like us to believe.
EPO shares soar after approach from palm oil giant
- Agrimoney
- 17 October 2013
Shares in Equatorial Palm Oil soared 40% after the palm oil minnow revealed it was in talks over a takeover by Malaysia-based giant Kuala Lumpur Kepong, which would gain a foothold in Africa through a deal.
Palm oil deal undermines efforts to resolve 25-year conflict in Sumatra
- Mongabay
- 16 October 2013
Local groups call on governor of Jambi province to cancel PT Asiatic Persada’s permit after Wilmar’s sale of the company stalls IFC-mediated talks.
Looming nightmare, Daewoo Logistics back on the offensive?
- TANY
- 16 October 2013
Five years after it was proposed, Daewoo Logistics' agribusiness project, which envisioned a 99-year lease of 1.3 million ha in four regions of Madagascar, has now returned to the news.