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Firm pouring P85M for banana venture in Sarangani
- MindaNews
- 09 July 2013
With the huge export potentials of banana, RP Bahrain Harvest Inc. is putting up a plantation in the Philippines with an initial investment of P85 million.
Felda Global starts to acquire plantation land in Southeast Asia
- 09 July 2013
Felda Global is planning a $13.7 million purchase of rubber, oil palm land in Indonesia and says it is closing in on land deals in Myanmar, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea.
Cameroon NGOs ask U.S. government to investigate palm oil venture
- Reuters
- 09 July 2013
Environmental activists have petitioned Washington to open up an investigation into the land acquisition and forest exploitation activities of a U.S.-owned palm oil firm, Herakles Farms, in Cameroon’s southwest.
Farmers buck Belmonte’s ‘Cha-cha’ call
- Business Mirror
- 09 July 2013
Proposed constitutional amendment will allow 100-percent foreign ownership and control of land and give non-Filipino individuals and entities access to an unlimited size of land, says KMP.
Mitsui delves further into Brazil agriculture sector
- Reuters
- 09 July 2013
SLC Agricola, one of Brazil's largest soybean producers with cotton, corn and coffee operations, will have a 50.1 percent participation in the venture that will start operations in the northern frontier agricultural state of Bahia.
A foreseeable disaster: The European Union’s agroenergy policies and the global land and water grab
- TNI
- 09 July 2013
The EU's bioeconomy vision is fuelling land grabs in Africa.
Louis Dreyfus Commodities : De l’agriculture durable à la vente des produits finis aux supermarchés.
- Agefi
- 09 July 2013
Les activités de LDC vont de la culture (180.000 hectares de terres exploitées) à la vente de produits finis aux supermarchés.
Se revela que la CFI financió expropiación de tierras en Camboya, Laos y Honduras
- Bretton Woods Project
- 08 July 2013
Al tiempo que el Directorio Ejecutivo del Banco Mundial sigue favoreciendo los fondos de capital privado, se afirma que los intermediarios financieros de la CFI han financiado 'apropiación de tierras" en el sudeste asiático y violaciones de los derechos de la población indígena en Honduras.
Next boom cattle: De Lacy
- NQR
- 08 July 2013
FORMER Macarthur Coal chairman Keith De Lacy is backing the potential $100 million float of a beef cattle company, with expectations that offshore investors will support the company's initial public offer.
L'achat de terres par les Chinois à l'étranger ne devrait pas être critiqué
- China Internet Info Centre
- 07 July 2013
"D'aucuns estiment que la presse française a mal interprété un certain nombre d'investissements chinois classiques et que la Chine et la France doivent davantage se faire confiance," écrit le gouvernement chinois.
Malaysia, China investors eyeing Indonesian rice
- Jakarta Globe
- 07 July 2013
A group of Malaysia and Chinese investors are looking to invest as much as $2 billion in Indonesia’s integrated rice farms in the next seven years.
Colombia: Wilson Arias, el detective de los baldíos
- La Silla Vacía
- 05 July 2013
En las últimas semanas han salido a la luz pública al menos seis grandes casos de compras masivas de tierras en los Llanos que solían ser baldíos del Estado. Casi todos han tenido a Wilson Arias, representante del Polo, como protagonista.