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Que va faire Sifca de ses €90 millions ?
- Commodafrica
- 10 October 2018
L’agroindustriel ivoirien Sifca va bénéficier d’un prêt de €90 millions octroyé par Proparco, FMO et la Société Générale.
EBRD launches new agribusiness strategy
- EBRD
- 10 October 2018
Addressing the growing challenges that the agribusiness sector faces in the EBRD regions, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has launched its new strategy for the sector for the period 2019 to 2023.
Harvard Management Company Inc's Natural Resources Sustainable Investing Guidelines
- Harvard
- 10 October 2018
Harvard University's endowment fund has 5 principles that guide its investments in natural resources, including farmland
Au Brésil, la protection de onze nouvelles réserves du Rondonia est abolie
- Reporterre
- 10 October 2018
Le lobby brésilien de l’agroalimentaire a réussi à amalgamer dans un projet de loi de financement d’urgence l’abolition de la protection de 600.000 ha dans l'État de Rondonia
Le droit pénal international peut-il venir au secours de l’environnement ?
- JusticeInfo.net
- 10 October 2018
La « vague d’espoir » soulevée par l'annonce de la Cour pénale internationale concernant son intention d'examiner des crimes liés à l’accaparement des terres s’est désormais transformée en « vague espoir »
Mali : Le projet agropole de Morila voit le jour
- bamada
- 09 October 2018
Un centre agrobusiness sera développé sur 1 400 ha de terres appartenant aux communautés
Imara invests in Zambezi Berry Company
- Private Equity Wire
- 09 October 2018
The private equity division of Imara Holdings Limited has, over the last twelve months, sourced, structured and invested circa USD4.5 million, on behalf of a European Family Office client, into Zambezi Berry Company
How Harvard’s investments exacerbate global land and water conflicts
- Grist
- 09 October 2018
The elite university has quietly become one of the largest owners of farmland in the world, according to a new report by GRAIN, an international nonprofit supporting small farmers, and Brazil-based Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos
Le Cameroun va importer 100 000 tonnes d’huile de palme brute du Gabon et de l’Indonésie
- Afrique Media TV
- 09 October 2018
Malgré les grands projets menés par des investisseurs étrangers, la production d'huile de palme stagne au Cameroun
World Bank – IMF guilty of promoting land grabs, increasing inequality
- LVC
- 08 October 2018
Peasant organisations have pledged to expose the incriminating role of the World Bank and IMF in increasing inequality, land dispossession and poverty, as the annual meeting of these bodies get under way in Bali.
Shanghai's Pengxin diverted $567 million to Brazil after snub on Kidman sale
- AFR
- 08 October 2018
Shanghai-based conglomerate Pengxin redirected the $US400 million it was prepared to pay for Australia's largest private land holding, S. Kidman & Co, into investments in Brazil after it was snubbed by then treasurer Scott Morrison in 2016.
Karuturi staff hopeful as they await key ruling in December
- The Star
- 08 October 2018
Kenya's court of appeal will rule on the 20th of December on the ownership of the Karuturi farm which was put under receivership over a debt it owed one of the banks.