Sierra Leone: Sewa Farm to invest $30-40M in agriculture
- Awoko
- 03 May 2016
The private farming company, Sewa Farm, will start rice farming between June and July this year in Turma Bum in Bonthe district on an initial 25,000 hectares.
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Chinese group drops $281 million bid for Australian cattle firm
- Bloomberg
- 03 May 2016
The suitors led by Shanghai Pengxin Group will instead work on a new structure for the takeover of S. Kidman & Co., while sticking with the same price tag for the 117-year-old cattle company.
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Falta de informações sobre estrutura fundiária e estrangeirização é intencional
- IHU
- 02 May 2016
“Quando o Estado não tem informações bem definidas sobre seu território, configura-se uma situação de precariedade dos registros que impede análises mais aprofundadas da questão fundiária e, portanto, da questão agrária”, diz o geógrafo.
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Uganda: Govt gives Chinese firm 2,500 acres in Luweero for farming
- Oberver
- 02 May 2016
The government has given Ke-Hong Group 2,500 acres for a multi-billion shilling project involving rice farming, poultry, horticulture, and fish farming, according to agriculture minister Tress Bucyanayandi.
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Nine-year jail term for human rights defender
- Oakland Institute
- 02 May 2016
An Ethiopian court has handed down a nine-year jail sentence to a leading dissident from the restive region where the government has leased vast tracts of land to foreign investors.
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Panama Papers: Onetai farm firm treasurer directed company in Scolari tax investigation
- Stuff
- 02 May 2016
Ministers approved the sale of a New Zealand farm to a Panamanian firm whose treasurer was also a director of a company that Portugal believed laundered money for former Brazilian and Portuguese national soccer coach Luiz Felipe Scolari.
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Largest agricultural investment under new SIV rules backs IPO Mort & Co
- AFR
- 02 May 2016
The largest agricultural investment under the federal government's new significant investment visa (SIV) program has been made in the $174 million float candidate Mort & Co, which owns and operates Australia's biggest independent feedlot business.
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Brazil land activists facing 'increased intimidation' with six killings in 2016
- Reuters
- 02 May 2016
Land rights campaigners and environmentalists are facing growing violence and intimidation in Brazil, with at least six activists killed so far this year
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Kazakh leader evokes Ukraine as land protests spread
- Reuters
- 02 May 2016
The protests were sparked by opposition to a legal overhaul that will allow the government to sell farmland to joint ventures, provided they are controlled by Kazakh residents, and lease it to foreigners for up to 25 years. Opponents of the new law, who staged their first protest in the city of Atyrau last Sunday, see the change as a threat to national security, especially after the government announced several agreements with neighboring China for agricultural projects.
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Focus on Thursday court ruling over sale of troubled Karuturi
- Business Daily
- 01 May 2016
After close to three years and many court cases in Nairobi and Nakuru, the curtains appear to be coming down on one of the world’s biggest players in the cut flower industry — Karuturi Limited — after its owners conceded to an application to wind it up.
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Fiagril, gigante de trading e processamento de grãos do país é vendida para chineses
- Matogrossomais
- 01 May 2016
A gigante chinesa teria ficado com 57% das ações da companhia.
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Agriculture: pourquoi des investisseurs chinois achètent-ils des terres en France ?
- TV5Monde
- 29 April 2016
Deux entreprises et des particuliers chinois viennent d'acheter 1700 hectares de terres agricoles dans l'Indre. Cette discrète opération foncière inquiète le monde agricole et interroge la capacité des pouvoirs publics à enrayer la disparition de la paysannerie française.
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