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Los Grobo venden empresa en Brasil para invertir en Argentina
- Terra
- 04 June 2013
Vendió su participación en una empresa en Brasil a la japonesa Mitsubishi Corporation.
Smithfield Foods – Shuanghui International: The biggest Chinese acquisition that isn't
- Caijing
- 03 June 2013
A Chinese company isn’t buying Smithfield. A shell company based in Cayman Islands is. Instead of a story about “China buying up the world”, this turns out to be a story of a precarious leveraged buyout deal by some large global private equity firms looking to borrow their way to a fortune.
Concern mounts over agriculture development plan in Mozambique
- Kyodo
- 03 June 2013
Concerns mount among civil society groups that an agriculture project in Mozambique, which Tokyo is pushing through as one of its key projects in Africa, may end up depriving local farmers of their land.
At TICAD, clumsy diplomacy mars controversial Japanese aid project in Mozambique
- Japan Today
- 03 June 2013
Mozambican Minister suggests "illiterate" farmers were not behind letter to President denouncing trilateral agribusiness project backed by Japan and Brazil.
¿A quién pertenece el agua en África?
- ABC
- 03 June 2013
Mientras que el 40% de la población subsahariana no dispone de acceso al agua potable, los inversores internacionales hacen negocio acaparando los territorios por donde transita.
When land gets grabbed, do women get sidelined?
- CGIAR
- 03 June 2013
As gender gains attention in the agricultural world, data and information show women as major players in food production. Over 60% of women in Sub-Saharan Africa are employed in agriculture. And according to Oxfam, “women produce more than half of all the food grown in the world.”
Migration is expulsion by another name in world of foreign land deals
- Guardian
- 03 June 2013
Overseas land acquisitions are rising, with people pushed off their land and into poverty; let's not pretend that's migration.
End intimidation around Sierra Leone oil palm project
- GRAIN
- 03 June 2013
Groups around the world accuse European business magnates Vincent Bolloré and Hubert Fabri of using intimidation to silence local opposition to an African land grab.
Mettons fin à l'intimidation des opposants au projet d'huile de palme en Sierra Leone
- GRAIN
- 03 June 2013
Plusieurs organisations accusent les magnats européens Vincent Bolloré et Hubert Fabri de recourir à l'intimidation pour museler l'opposition locale à l'accaparement des terres africaines.
Grobocopatel invierte en agroquímicos
- La Nación
- 03 June 2013
Compró la firma Agrofina con un plan por $ 400 millones para desarrollar productos de alto valor; vendió su participación en una empresa en Brasil a la japonesa Mitsubishi Corporation.
Investeerders Verenigde Arabische Emiraten in Suriname
- Investeerders Verenigde Arabische Emiraten in Suriname
- 02 June 2013
PARAMARIBO, 21 mei –
Des activistes crient victoire comme Herakles suspend ses opérations
- IPS
- 01 June 2013
"Cela envoie un message fort selon lequel les pays africains sont ouverts aux affaires, mais qu’ils ne sont pas ouverts au vol", a indiqué à IPS, Anuradha Mittal, directrice exécutive de 'Oakland Institute'.