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The Bunong people's land struggle with Socfin
- GRAIN
- 30 April 2024
Local communities in Mondulkiri province have been struggling to get their land back since 2008, when the Luxembourg-based Socfin group secured 12,000 hectares of their lands.
Baladna signed an agreement with the Algerian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development for an integrate dairy farming and powder milk production project
- Gulf Times
- 29 April 2024
The joint venture project between Qatar's Baladna and the Algeria's National Investment Fund will develop a vertically integrated dairy operation in Algeria, spanning 117,000 ha.
Australia: Chinese billionaire to sell Tassie dairies after Fonterra deal sours
- AFR
- 29 April 2024
Chinese billionaire Xianfeng Lu has put one of the country’s biggest dairy operations, the nearly 200-year-old Woolnorth farming aggregation in Tasmania, up for sale after losing a big milk supply contract with dairy giant Fonterra earlier this year.
Why CSOs want mediation process into DRC’s land conflict paused
- Monitor
- 29 April 2024
Fourteen civil society organizations have expressed their disagreement with the manner in which the ongoing Independent Complaints Mechanism pertaining to the operations of company Plantations et Huileries du Congo is being handled.
Argentina: The investment case for farmland in a turbulent world
- Valoral
- 27 April 2024
Valoral Advisors, an international investment advisory firm specializing in food and agriculture, and El Renuevo, a farm management company in Argentina, are joining forces to suppport foreign investors interested in exploring and investing in farmland opportunities in the country.
Uganda: Govt cancels land title for 7,530 hectares in Agago
- Monitor
- 26 April 2024
The cancellation of the title followed a public outcry that it was illegally issued to two individuals, as well as another suspension of a 2,300 ha land title in the same district that had been claimed by Terra Agri Solutions Ltd for a commercial farm.
Vietnamese firm mulls multimillion-dollar agri-investment in Cambodia
- Khmer Times
- 25 April 2024
The Vietnamese conglomerate’s regional expansion will include 11,600 hectares dedicated to intensive banana production across the four new farms, two of which will be in Cambodia.
Ukraine's farm minister tenders resignation over corruption allegations
- Reuters
- 25 April 2024
Under the alleged scheme, the land worth over US$7 million was illegally taken from two state firms and transferred to war veterans on the condition they lease it to some private firms, prosecutors said.
Sujimoto partners Plateau State to combat food insecurity with 30,000 hectares of rice farm
- Guardian
- 24 April 2024
Sujimoto Group, a leading Nigerian real estate developer, has joined forces with Nigeria's Plateau State to launch an ambitious agricultural project, the Sujimoto Rice Farm Estate.
Iran eyes extraterritorial cultivation on 2m hectares of land overseas
- Tehran Times
- 24 April 2024
Iran's seventh development plan calls for extra-territorial cultivation of food crops this year on 400,000 ha in Iraq, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Africa and Latin America.
Iowa tightens foreign-owned land law, but misses farmers' main concern: access to land
- Des Moines Register
- 23 April 2024
Some Iowans believe the greater threat to US farmland is not China but big-money investors — from capital investment funds to tech billionaires, sports celebrities and churches — that are pushing ownership out of reach of Iowa farmers.
Embuste por trás da certificação do óleo de palma da Agropalma, denuncia site
- Ver-O-Fato
- 22 April 2024
Reportagem do site Salve a Floresta afirma que a chamada sustentabilidade zero, propalada pela Agropalma, não passa de um “embuste por trás da certificação do óleo de palma” da empresa sediada em terras do Pará entre os municípios do Acará e Tailândia numa área de 106 mil – maior do que o tamanho da cidade do Rio de Janeiro e onde estão localizadas terras particulares da família Tabaranã, áreas públicas, quilombolas e indígena.
Philippines: Metro Pacific eyeing more agri investments
- Manila Times
- 22 April 2024
The group, which has a dairy joint venture with Israel's LR Group, says it intends to increase its dairy capacity and invest in a 3,000-hectare property in Mindoro to "plant corn for cows" and for other purposes.
HAGL raises $51mln from private placement
- VNN
- 22 April 2024
With the new injection of funds, HAGL intends to expand its total plantation area to 25,000 hectares for bananas, durian and other economically valuable crops across Việt Nam, Laos and Cambodia.
Colonialism revamped in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- African Arguments
- 21 April 2024
Lord Leverhulme’s 1911 concession in the Congo, is now held by an African-run New York-based private equity firm with strong links to global philanthropy.