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Anholt Investment buys 6,000-hectare farmland in Romania with EUR 11 mln
- Romania Insider
- 22 April 2014
US investment fund Anholt Investment bought the Agraria Nord and Arland farms in Botosani county, Romania.
HAGL eyes Cambodia agriculture expansion
- Phnom Penh Post
- 22 April 2014
Controversial Vietnamese rubber giant Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) Group is to expand its agricultural business in Cambodia to include corn, according to the company’s CEO Nguyen Van Su.
KMP warns Pangilinan’s imminent entry in Luisita to intensify unrest
- APC
- 22 April 2014
two years after Supreme Court decision ordering distribution of Hacienda Luisita, Cojuangcos of Tarlac province still control 6,000-hectare sugar estate. Denial of farmers’ rights with the “imminent” entry of businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan.
Zimbabwe: UAE firm targets mining sector
- The Herald
- 22 April 2014
"UAE relies on food imports and we are very concerned with food security so we are very willing to invest heavily in Zimbabwe's agriculture," Dr Andre Homberg of Tabarak Investment Bank said.
Égypte, le retour du rêve fou d’un vieux pharaon
- Orient XXI
- 22 April 2014
Le projet de Tochka était censé régler les problèmes démographiques et agricoles de l’Égypte. En 2008, plus de 30 000 ha ont été attribués à une compagnie saoudienne. Fin 2013, une compagnie émiratie y annonçait l’achat de 40 000 ha.
The great British farmland boom
- Wall St Daily
- 21 April 2014
Farmland is now one of the UK’s greatest money makers. In 2013, overseas buyers accounted for 8% of UK farmland sales.
Senegal : 37 villages say “no” to the implementation of Senhuile Senethanol and threaten to march with cattles
- Wetlands Africa
- 21 April 2014
As they prepare a protest march, the populations questioned President Macky Sall on the Senhuile agribusiness project that is grabbing and destroying their land.
Sénégal : Les 37 villages de la zone disent non à la presence de Senhuile Senéthanol et menacent de marcher avec le bétail
- Wetlands Africa
- 21 April 2014
Les populations ont lancé le début d’une campagne et interpellent le Président Sénégalais Macky Sall.
Governos de Moçambique, Brasil e Japão Lançam última Ofensiva contra Resistência das OSC e Movimentos Sociais ao Prosavana
- ADECRU
- 21 April 2014
ADECRU exige ao Governo de Moçambique que inicie uma ampla discussão democrática, franca e inclusiva com as Comunidades do Corredor de Nacala em resposta as suas demandas soberanas
Did the Aru Islanders just stop a 500,000 hectare plantation threat?
- Interconintental Cry
- 21 April 2014
Since 2007, a plantation company had been scheming to take over more than three-quarters of the Indigenous islanders’ ancestral land in the Aru islands of Indonesia.
Compétition pour les terres arables
- ARTE
- 19 April 2014
Pour ce premier volet de l'émission consacrée au commerce des terres arables, "Le Dessous des cartes" s'intéresse aux facteurs qui ont relancé la quête mondiale de terres agricoles, et aux acteurs de ce marché.
Bulgaria: €5 million loan to Elana Agrocredit to support modernisation of the sector
- The Balkans
- 19 April 2014
The EBRD is providing a €5 million to loan to Elana Agrocredit AD to co-finance the development of Bulgaria’s agricultural land market.