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À São Tomé, Agripalma marche sur des œufs
- Jeune Afrique
- 13 May 2016
Dans le sud-ouest de l’île de São Tomé, la co-entreprise entre l’État santoméen et le groupe luxembourgeois Socfin ressuscite la culture du palmier à l’huile.
France : Lettre ouverte au Ministère de lAgriculture
- Confédération Paysanne (Indre)
- 13 May 2016
Lettre ouverte de la la Confédération paysanne 36 concernant l'acquisition de plus de 1 700 ha de terres agricoles dans l'Indre par des entrepreneurs chinois
Nuevas maniobras de poderosos acumuladores de baldíos
- Las 2 Orillas
- 13 May 2016
El exrepresentante Wilson Arias denuncia una nueva modalidad de empresas que se aprovechan de tierras campesinas.
Next steps to strengthen global land governance
- The Conversation
- 13 May 2016
Many see the voluntary guidelines as an important opportunity to address wider issues of land inequality, historical dispossession and agrarian change, rather than simply as a route to “responsible investment”
United Cacao responds to bid to remove company from London Stock Exchange
- Mongabay
- 13 May 2016
The company defends its Peruvian plantations amid uproar over alleged environmental and social impacts.
Namibia: Russian landlord in Panama Papers
- Namibian
- 13 May 2016
Russian billionaire Rashid Sardarov, who bought large tracts of land in Namibia, is among the long−serving clients of Mossack Fonseca, a disgraced law firm known for aiding the rich to hide their wealth in tax havens
Kazakh government invites opponents to discuss land reform
- Reuters
- 12 May 2016
Kazakhstan's government, facing a wave of unrest over farmland privatisation plans, invited some opponents of the reform to join a commission set up on Thursday to review it.
Companies run by ex-cricketer Phil Edmonds 'paid bribes to officials'
- Guardian
- 12 May 2016
Companies co-founded and run by Phil Edmonds, founder of leading African farmland investor Agriterra, paid “bribes” to African officials and have bought assets owned by secretive offshore structures, a campaign group has claimed.
Socfin, une épine dans le pied de Vincent Bolloré
- Jeune Afrique
- 11 May 2016
Déforestation, spoliation des terres, conditions de travail… Le groupe belgo-luxembourgeois, dont l'homme d'affaires français est actionnaire, concentre les critiques sur la gestion de ses plantations.
Atelier international sur la lutte pour la justice sociale et économique dans la pêche artisanale
- WFFP
- 11 May 2016
WFFP vient de publier le compte rendu d'un atelier sur la lutte contre l’accaparement des océans
Insight Investments taps head of farmland team
- P&I
- 10 May 2016
Tom McKeon was most recently CEO of Hassad Australia, the Doha-based Qatar Investment Authority’s food and agribusiness subsidiary.
Pack your bags to cash in on China’s dairy demand
- Farm Weekly
- 10 May 2016
In partnership with Indonesian agribusiness Japfa and Cargill’s Black River, AustAsia has built five free stall dairy farms in the province of Shandong, plus another in Inner Mongolia, to milk 30,000 Holsteins in total.