A $50 million commitment was made to ACM Permanent Crops, a fund managed by Agriculture Capital Management that seeks “superior value creation from vertically integrated, sustainable farming.”
The largest agricultural landholder in Uruguay has acquired the totality of the Uruguayan assets of international agriculture group El Tejar, the second largest agribusiness in the country.
- PR Newswire
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24 February 2014
The target is 500,000 hectares by 2020, nearly four times the current level.
Les FLAM rappellent que la juste solution au problème réside dans la mise en oeuvre d´une réforme agraire à caractère National
- Points chauds
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24 February 2014
Le bradage de terres de la vallée du fleuve Sénégal au profit d'hommes d'affaires saoudiens est dénoncé par les Forces de libération africaine de Mauritanie (FLAM).
AIM-listed Paragon acquires 10% shareholding in Paragon Volta Limited, which is in the process of finalising a sublease over 5,000 ha close to the River Volta in Ghana from a much larger farm land estate.
- Wall Street Journal
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24 February 2014
Les pays arabes du Golfe sont de plus en plus préoccupés par leur sécurité alimentaire, souligne « The Economist »
- Les Échos
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24 February 2014
The Russian farm operator unveiled a loss of $18.1m for 2013, compared with earnings of $7.49m in 2012 – the only profitable year in the company's nine year history.
- Agrimoney
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21 February 2014
African Land Limited sold itself on the back of a promise that its rice farms in Sierra Leone could turn “a tidy profit of 15% a year”.
- Daily Mirror
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21 February 2014
El sufrimiento que para los habitantes locales han representado los últimos estertores de la división de Karaturi en Kenia no hace más que evidenciar que los supuestos "beneficios de las inversiones extranjeras", como se repite en el catecismo neoliberal, son una dramática mentira.
- La Jornada
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21 February 2014
In return for corporate investment and aid, African states are reforming policies to make it easier for corporations to operate in their farming sectors.
Citizens of Sinoe County have filed a complaint to the RSPO, an overall body of Palm Oil Worldwide, to stop Golden Veroleum Liberia's (GVL) ongoing operations of land clearing in their towns and villages.