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Shanghai Pengxin receive offers for 'legitimate' farm sale
- Stuff
- 28 July 2015
Bidders have made offers for what Shanghai Pengxin says is the "legitimate" sale of its dairy farms - the former Crafar farms - in south Waikato, New Zealand.
Debate levado a cabo pelo Governo sobre o ProSAVANA é para impressionar japoneses e brasileiros
- @Verdade
- 28 July 2015
O controverso ProSAVANA, oficialmente lançado em 2011, está em implementação ignorando o processo de diálogo e auscultação pública e as recomendações e preocupações das Organizações da Sociedade Civil.
Senegal’s infamous agri-business project, Senhuile SA, on verge of shutdown?
- DTE
- 28 July 2015
A recent report states that Senhuile SA is facing protests from residents of surrounding villages due to allegations of land grabbing and other instances of mismanagement.
U.S. NCP final statement on the specific instance between CED and RELUFA and Herakles Farms' affiliate SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon in Cameroon
- US NCP
- 28 July 2015
This Final Statement concludes the Specific Instance submitted on June 13, 2013 by CED and RELUFA with regards to the alleged conduct of Herakles Farms’ affiliate SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SGSOC) in Cameroon.
Triangular cooperation for agricultural development of the tropcial savannah of Mozambique
- JCC
- 28 July 2015
Presentation made by the 3rd Joint Coordination Committee of ProSAVANA on December 3, 2012 in Nampula
Mozambique: Foreign investment in agri-business but not farming?
- Club of Mozambique
- 28 July 2015
No new plantation has succeeded since independence. No new plantation investment has yet been profitable
Fertiliser firm to boost farmers productivity
- Daily News
- 28 July 2015
Yara and Unilever are partnering on a smallholder contract growing programme, connected to Unilever's 3,253 hectare tea plantation in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor (SAGCOT).
Australia: Senator Penny Wong slams Coalition agricultural foreign investment policy
- Weekly Times
- 28 July 2015
Labor’s trade spokeswoman Senator Penny Wong has slammed the Coalition’s agricultural foreign investment policy at today’s premier grains industry event.
Scandale financier aux Grands Moulins de Dakar : Le Directeur général Emile Elmalem viré
- Setal
- 28 July 2015
Emile Elmalem, le Directeur général des Grands moulins de Dakar (Gmd), a été emporté par un scandale financier dans lequel on retrouve Benjamin Dummai, ancien Directeur général de Senhuile Sa.
Qui achète nos terres agricoles et à quel prix?
- Les Affaires
- 28 July 2015
Au Québec, de plus en plus de questions sont soulevées par le phénomène d’accaparement des terres agricoles.
« Danger pour l’agriculture familiale » (CES européen)
- France Agricole
- 28 July 2015
Le Comité économique et social européen (CES européen) voit un risque sérieux dans la forte concentration des terres aux mains de grands investisseurs non agricoles et de grandes entreprises agricoles.
Tanzanie: le projet de plantation d’huile de palme dans le district de Kisaware renaît de ses cendres
- Agence Ecofin
- 28 July 2015
Un projet de palmier à huile dans le district de Kisaware connaît actuellement un regain d’intérêt de la part des officiels après le silence qui avait prévalu à son endroit durant les deux dernières années.
With farms, fruit and feed, Vietnam's tycoons explore agribusiness ventures
- Reuters
- 28 July 2015
Some of Vietnam top firms are carving out opportunities in its $37 billion agriculture and seafood sector and looking to expand overseas, helped by free trade pacts.
Mali : Accaparement de terres a l'office du Niger, Sahou et Sanamadougou maintiennent la pression
- Le Prétoire
- 27 July 2015
Quand bien même les autorités locales leur promettraient de les remettre dans leurs droits dans quelques semaines, les populations de ces deux villages veillent toujours au grain.
The palm oil company at the centre of a bitter land rights struggle in Cameroon
- Guardian
- 27 July 2015
Local residents complain expansion plans by Socapalm, Cameroon’s biggest palm oil company, will take over land that belongs to them