Conservation Resource Partners announced today the closing of its inaugural North American farmland private equity fund. with investment from institutional as well as high net worth investors, from both North America and Europe.
Agriculture & Natural Solutions Acquisition Corporation announced agreement for a business combination with the iconic Australian Food & Agriculture Company Limited, one of the largest diversified agricultural portfolios in New South Wales
In recent years, Gulf economies have tackled their food dependencies not just by importing foodstuffs but through land enclosures, or the purchasing of agricultural land abroad, particularly in the Middle East, North and East Africa (but also as far as the United States and Australia)
Plano Nacional de Conversão de Pastagens Degradadas em Cultivos Sustentáveis pretende incorporar 40 milhões de hectares para produção de biocombustíveis, celulose, aquicultura, e "um ótimo ativo para se servir" o mercado de carbono. O Plano promete dobrar o agro brasileiro "sem tirar uma só árvore sequer": "uma revolução criativa tropical".
Une enquête du Comité d’éthique du fonds de pension norvégien, actionnaire du groupe Bolloré, sur les opérations de Socfin au Cameroun imputent de graves méfaits à ce mastodonte de l’agro-industrie qui contrôle Socapalm et Safacam.
À propos des terres agricoles accordées à des sociétés rwandaises, le Président de la République du Congo a déclaré que jamais il n’a été question de leur vendre des terres. "À chaque fois, il s’agit -ou il s’agira- de terres louées pour une période déterminée et pour une mission précise."
Privately-owned Australian Food & Agriculture Company has sold its 13 New South Wales farms spanning 225,405 ha to NASDAQ-listed Agriculture & Natural Solutions Acquisition Corporation for $780 million.
Amr Abdel Wahab, chairperson and managing director of the Egyptian Countryside Development Company, signed an investment contract with Al Magd Group for a 29,000-feddan area for the large-scale cultivation of oil seed crops
The Liberian Investigator has confirmed that the Socfin Group has sold the Salala Rubber plantation to Jeety Rubber following weeks of violent protests at the company’s facilities and years of serious criticism from Green Advocates and international rights groups for reportedly causing significant harm to local communities, including land grabbing, environmental degradation, and human rights abuses.
Área de pastagem expandiu 79% e agricultura 228% nos últimos 40 anos, principalmente de monocultivos para exportação, com boa parte baseada na invasão de terras públicas e de comunidades locais. A agropecuária passou de 28% para 47% no Cerrado, já no Pantanal, a superfície de água passou de 21% em 1985 para 4% em 2023.
El pueblo indígena Sikuani exige la restitución de 58 mil hectáreas de su territorio en el Meta, ya reconocidos por la Agencia Nacional de Tierras (ANT), de los Menonitas que las compraran de forma irregular del paramilitarismo. El grupo religioso destina las tierras a monocultivos de soya, maíz, arroz y frijol con intenso uso de pesticidas.
Kenya has revealed plans to lease large tracts of land to Israeli investors for wheat production, marking a renewed agricultural venture after an earlier Israeli-led maize project at the Galana-Kulalu irrigation scheme failed.
Les Emirats Arabes Unis vont soutenir l’Etat malgache dans la production de sucre. Le président Andry Rajoelina entend encourager les investisseurs émiratis à intervenir dans les secteurs clés de l’économie tels que l’agriculture résiliente.
The CSSF has put an end to a year-long dispute between small shareholders and Socfin's main shareholders, the Fabri family and French billionaire Vincent Bolloré: the 689,337 shares they not control between them will be bought back at €32.50 per share. This will take Socfin off the stock market at a time when it is the target of fierce criticism from a major Norwegian pension fund. It was also the end of an era for the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.
La CSSF a mis fin à un an de «différends» entre de petits actionnaires et les principaux actionnaires de la Socfin, les Fabri et le milliardaire français Vincent Bolloré: les 689.337 actions qui leur manquent seront rachetées à 32,5 euros l’action. De quoi retirer la Socfin de la cotation au moment où elle est la cible de critiques virulentes du fonds de pension norvégien. La fin d’une époque, aussi, pour la Bourse de Luxembourg.
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