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Mitr Phol growing in Laos
- Bangkok Post
- 29 May 2015
Mitr Phol Group, Asia's biggest sugar producer, has earmarked 3.5 billion baht to double production in Laos, fed by a plantation area in the southern province of Savannakhet.
An Indian dynasty betting on Romanian agriculture
- Black Sea Group
- 29 May 2015
Gupta family, one of the most powerful business dynasties in India alongside that of Lakshmi Mittal, bought two farms with a total of 2,500 hectares of land in Teleorman.
Deforestation, exploitation, hypocrisy: no end to Wilmar's palm oil land grabs
- The Ecologist
- 29 May 2015
While Wilmar spins green rhetoric, its bulldozers are still destroying vast swathes of forest and farmland.
African land is a profitable but potentially dangerous investment
- NGO Pulse
- 29 May 2015
Foreigners mostly seek agricultural land and land for tourism developments, but all foreigner-owned land in Africa holds the potential to prompt violence from displaced people.
Kuwaiti group to invest in sugar cane plantation in southern Mozambique
- Bernama
- 29 May 2015
Kuwait's Al-Badel International Development Company said it will launch a US$1.5 billion project to grow sugar cane in southern Mozambican province of Gaza within the next three months.
Reforme Foncière au Sénégal : des mécanismes de sécurité des investissements étrangers
- Financial Afrik
- 29 May 2015
La commission nationale de réforme foncière (CNRF) s’est engagée à mettre en œuvre des canaux de sécurité des terres octroyées aux investisseurs.
La société civile réclame une Charte tripartite
- Madagascar Tribune
- 29 May 2015
La société civile relance le processus d’élaboration d’une Charte tripartite pour le respect des droits humain dans le cadre des investissements privés - miniers et agricoles - à Madagascar.
Mali : Accaparement des terres dans les villages de Sanamadougou/Saou et San : Les victimes projettent un sit-in
- Le Républicain
- 29 May 2015
L'UACDDD et la CMAT envisagent d’organiser un sit-in dénommé « village des sans terre » du 2 au 4 juin 2015 à la bourse du travail.
L’AIDC investira 1,5 milliard $ dans la production de bioéthanol au Mozambique
- Agence Ecofin
- 29 May 2015
L’Al-Badel International Development Company, du Koweït, investira 1,5 milliard de dollars dans un projet de culture de canne à sucre dans la province mozambicaine de Gaza.
Colombia: La probada expropiación de las tierras baldías
- El Espectador
- 28 May 2015
EL 24 DE JULIO DE 2013, EL ABOGADO Carlos Urrutia renunció como embajador de Colombia en Washington porque su prestigioso bufete de abogados fue denunciado por servir como estratega para que Riopaila Castilla se apropiara ilegalmente de 32.000 hectáreas de tierras baldías en la altillanura.
Brookfield said to raise $300 million for Brazil farmland fund
- Bloomberg
- 28 May 2015
Brookfield Asset Management Inc., Canada’s largest alternative asset manager, has raised $300 million for a new agricultural fund targeting Brazilian farmland, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
A Grande Concessão de Terras em Moçambique
- 28 May 2015
Será que a bolha da grilagem tinha estourado? Será que o inicio conturbado do projeto ProSavana seria um sinal de que as terras africanas haviam perdido o seu esplendor?