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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.
Black Earth founder invests in dairy cows in Chechnya
- RBC Daily
- 15 October 2013
Mikhail Orlov, after having sold his Russian farming operations and shifted focus to Zambia, is back with a 4,800 cow dairy farm project in Chechnya.
Victimising the victims of land grabbing in Malen Chiefdom
- Green Scenery
- 15 October 2013
Five members of Malen Affected Land Owners Association arrested by police for allegedly destroying oil palms of Luxembourg-based SOCFIN say they are being unfairly targeted by those profiting from the plantation.
Old powers and new powers: agriculture and investment in Africa
- Zimbabweland
- 14 October 2013
Panel on food and agriculture included a discussion about ‘land grabs’, large and small farm models, and how investment in Africa could be increased, but also guided and regulated.
Agri-Vie invests in Cape Olive Holdings
- Business Day
- 14 October 2013
Agri-Vie, a private equity fund focused on food and agribusiness investments in sub-Saharan Africa, announces it has acquired a 63% stake in South Africa's largest table olive supplier.
PAN AP partners launch 'land grabs' book to mark 'World Foodless Day'
- PANAP
- 14 October 2013
Partner organizations of Pesticide Action Network - Asia and the Pacific launch a book compiling seven case studies on land grabbing in the region as part of its activities to mark "World Foodless Day"
A..Maizing! Meet the expert team behind our new Senegal investment
- Property Frontiers
- 11 October 2013
Dean Jobling, CEO and Founder of Sunu Agro, explains how his company's farm project in Senegal will be delivering investors expected returns of 239% over 5 years.
Myanmar farmers helpless against land grabbing
- AP
- 11 October 2013
Foreign investors, often working with current or former military officials, are scrambling to build roads, factories, power plants, bridges and industrial-sized plantations.
Flower growers in Kenya strike against Karuturi Global
- CorpWatch
- 10 October 2013
Flower growers in Kenya have gone on strike to protest unpaid wages from Karuturi Global, the Indian flower export multinational.
Briefing: Responsible agricultural investment
- Glopolis
- 10 October 2013
In the occasion of Committe on World Food Security session in Rome Glopolis is publishing a briefing on responsible agricultural investment which is one of the main issues discussing during this forum.
Investors must surrender Idle farmland-President Jakaya Kikwete
- Tanzania Daily News
- 09 October 2013
Tanzania's President says hoarding large chunks of land without developing them for years retards national development and impoverishes subsistence farmers.