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China's COFCO Capital draws new state, private shareholders
- Reuters
- 22 August 2017
A group of state and private companies will invest a total of 6.9 billion yuan($1.04 billion) in COFCO Capital, a subsidiary of state-run agribusiness COFCO Group.
Sénégal : recours devant la Cour suprême pour l’annulation d’une concession rizicole marocaine
- Jeune Afrique
- 22 August 2017
Cette semaine un collectif de 2 000 habitants de la commune de Dodel porte ses récriminations à l’encontre d’un vaste projet rizicole devant la Cour suprême du Sénégal.
AreaOne Farms Fund III reaps harvest in $130 mln close
- PE Hub Network
- 21 August 2017
AreaOne Farms Fund III exceeded its target by signing up more limited partners, including three Canadian institutions — an endowment, an insurer and a pension fund
Huile de palme : polémique autour des plantations de Bolloré au Cameroun
- Le Monde
- 21 August 2017
Des ONG et des villageois mettent en cause les immenses concessions qui occupent les terres et polluent l’eau.
Nigéria: le groupe Dangote indemnise les propriétaires affectés par son projet de raffinerie de sucre à Nasarawa
- Agence Ecofin
- 21 August 2017
Dangote a débuté le paiement d’une indemnisation à plusieurs propriétaires terriens dans l’Etat de Nasarawa qui ont perdu leurs terres dans le cadre d’un projet de raffinerie de sucre de 60 0000 ha
Iran to launch agricultural cultivation in Uruguay
- MNA
- 21 August 2017
Deputy Iranian agriculture minister, while pointing to imports of rice from Uruguay, said Iran had made an overseas farming plan for cultivating rice in the South American country.
China's 'richest chicken farmer' front of brood for Moy Park
- The Telegraph
- 19 August 2017
Liu Yonghao, chairman of China’s agrichemical business New Hope has joined a brood of bidders for a £1bn takeover of Northern Irish poultry giant Moy Park.
China's COFCO forms U.S. grain supply partnership with Growmark
- Reuters
- 19 August 2017
China's state-owned COFCO International Ltd (CIL) and U.S. farm cooperative Growmark Inc will partner in a deal that gives China more direct access to the food it imports.
Angola : 4 compagnies investiront 310 millions $ dans la production agricole à Malanje
- Agence Ecofin
- 18 August 2017
Cette enveloppe ira à la production de céréales, de fruits, de légumes et de viande sur 35 000 hectares des 411 000 du Pôle agro-industriel de Capanda
Dangote turns to Nigerian agriculture
- African Business Magazine
- 18 August 2017
Nigeria’s biggest private sector company, the Dangote Group, has decided to turn its attention to agribusiness. Dangote will pay the state government N1.2bn ($3.7m) for 16,000 hectares of land and give it an equity stake in the company.
Maurice va valoriser les terres agricoles qu’il détient au Mozambique
- Agence Ecofin
- 17 August 2017
Port-Louis compte débuter l’exploitation des 20 000 hectares de terres agricoles qu’il a pris à bail depuis 1999 sur le territoire mozambicain. C’est ce que rapporte le site d’information mauricien Le Défi média group.
Lettre ouverte à Monsieur Le Président de la République de Madagascar relative au "Rendez-vous Fotoambita n°12" consacré à la Terre et au Foncier.
- 17 August 2017
Le Collectif TANY cherche des éclaircissements sur la politique du gouvernment malgache sur la vente des terrains aux étrangers
Indians win key land rights victory in Brazil’s Supreme Court
- Mongabay
- 17 August 2017
Brazil’s Supreme Court made two key decisions that strongly favored the country’s indigenous communities last Wednesday, against the claims of Mato Grosso state.
South Korea to build $10bln integrated agricultural city in Egypt
- Arab Finance
- 16 August 2017
Egypt and the Korea-Arab Society (KAS) signed a cooperation protocol to build a $10 billion integrated agricultural city in the North African country. The city will be stretched over an area of 300,000 feddans (126,000 ha) in the southeast part of the Qattara Depression.
Angola: Companies invest over USD 300 million in agro-industry
- All Africa
- 16 August 2017
A USD 310 million investment contract signed between private companies for Agro-industrial Complex of Capanda (PAC) in northern Malanje province, Angola. The Agro-industrial Park occupies an area of 411.000 hectares.