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Palm oil’s corporate deception: Green-washing a dirty industry
- Telesur
- 01 December 2015
The expansion of oil palm plantations around the tropical world presents a fierce assault on the climate in the name of corporate profits.
Argentina: Empresa Transnacional Usurpa tierras campesinas
- Campesinos de Cuyo
- 01 December 2015
En Mendoza, localidad de Lavalle, alambrando con custodia policial privada y desobedeciendo a la justicia
Chinese-managed farm brings hope for food security in Zimbabwe
- Xinhua
- 30 November 2015
Wanjin Agricultural Development Company operates 10 farms in a venture with Zimbabwe's Ministry of Defense with a total land size exceeding 10,000 ha and it hopes to have acquired 40,000 ha more by 2018.
Farming eyes local market ahead of TPP
- VNS
- 30 November 2015
Vietnamese company Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group has invested in Cambodia so that it could have large areas for mechanized and automatic dairy farming.
Refroidir la planète : Les communautés en première ligne des changements climatiques mènent la lutte
- 30 November 2015
Réunion publique avec la Convergence globale des luttes pour la terre et l’eau, Paris, le 10 decembre
Cooling the planet: Frontline communities lead the struggle
- 30 November 2015
A public meeting by the Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles, Paris, December 10.
Land rush: Sellout of Europe’s agricultural land
- Maria Heubuch
- 30 November 2015
Study shows that the concentration of agricultural land in Europe constitutes a major threat to sustainable small- and medium-scale agriculture and young farmers
AAF Tax Policy Statement
- Phatisa
- 30 November 2015
African Agriculture Fund Policy Statement Regarding Tax and Transparency
Feronia Inc. announces closing of second tranche of secured convertible debenture offering
- Marketwired
- 27 November 2015
Canadian oil palm company operating oil palm plantations and arable farming operations in the DRC announces another $5 million placement by the African Agriculture Fund, which is funded by several development finance institutes.
Socfin pointé pour des pratiques douteuses que le groupe belge conteste
- RTBF
- 26 November 2015
SOCFIN reprochée par le point de contact national de l'OCDE en Belgique de ne pas avoir respecté des principes directeurs de l'OCDE en matière de conditions de travail et d'environnement.
Moldova’s largest agribusiness group buys Romanian company
- Romania Insider
- 26 November 2015
Trans-Oil, Moldova’s largest agribusiness company, will take over the local company Racova, active in agriculture and food industry, in a transaction estimated at over USD 100 million, which should be completed by December.
Foreign investors could be deterred by extra scrutiny of farm and agribusiness sales
- ABC
- 26 November 2015
An agricultural investment advisor predicts international companies wanting to buy Australian farmland could be scared off by changes to the threshold for scrutiny by the Foreign Investment Review Board.