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Chinese covet cattle stations
- The Land
- 27 October 2014
China's ravenous demand for Australian beef could soon lead to some major cattle station purchases, with one of several Chinese importers, Snow Dragon Group, looking to buy land.
Lufwanyama headed for edible oil boom
- Zambia Daily Mail
- 27 October 2014
Wilmar subsidiary says it is targeting a total investment of US$100 million on 20,000 hectares of farmland to produce 100,000 metric tonnes of edible oils per annum.
UAE firm set to produce 300,000 tonnes of wheat in Egypt's Toshka
- Reuters
- 27 October 2014
UAE-based Al Dahra Agriculture aims to pump water from the country's Aswan High Dam reservoir and deliver it via a 50-kilometre canal to 100,000 acres of reclaimed farmland 60 km from the border with Sudan.
Guide d'analyse ex-ante de projets d'investissements agricoles à emprise foncière.
- Comité Technique Foncier et Développement
- 27 October 2014
Un guide et une grille d’analyse pour la coopération française
Harvest of hardship: Yala Swamp land grab destroys Kenyan farmers' livelihoods
- GRAIN
- 27 October 2014
A June 2014 interview with farmer Erastus Odindo about his community's struggle to defend their lands from US-based Dominion Farms
Récolte de misère
- GRAIN
- 27 October 2014
L’accaparement du marais de Yala détruit les moyens de subsistence des paysans kenyans
Tanzania seeks Omani investment in agriculture and minerals
- Times of Oman
- 26 October 2014
The Tanzanian food industry that Omani business companies can tap into is not only confined to what is grown on the field but the fishing industry as well, says speaker of the National Assembly of Tanzania, Anne Makinda.
Interview: Fonterra CEO Theo Spierings
- NBR
- 26 October 2014
Fonterra boss Theo Spierings is "not worried” about sales of NZ productive land to foreigners so long as we are “working together” with foreign owners.
Sénégal : Message du Collectif des 37 villages du Ndiaël au Président de la République.
- Ndar Info
- 25 October 2014
Le Collectif des 37 villages du Ndiael invite le Président de la République à leur remettre leurs terres pour leur survie.
Terres "accaparées" : séance d'explications entre Bolloré et les communautés locales
- Le Point Afrique
- 25 October 2014
C'est une première. Ces négociations ont impliqué des représentants venus de Sierra Leone, du Liberia, du Cameroun, de Côte d'Ivoire et du Cambodge.
Accaparement des terres : Bolloré s'engage, les communautés locales attendent les actes
- ReAct
- 25 October 2014
"La reconnaissance par le groupe Bolloré des principes et accords violés par la Socfin représente une première avancée", se félicite les représentants de l’Alliance des riverains des plantations Socfin-Bolloré
Senegal : Message from the Collective of the 37 villages of the Ndiael region to the President of the Republic
- Ndar Info
- 25 October 2014
The concession of 20,000 ha of Senegal River delta land occupied by poor farmers and herders to the Senhuile Company is continuing to cause social and environmental harm in the Ndiael.
Accaparement des terres : Bolloré accepte d’écouter les revendications paysannes
- Jeune Afrique
- 24 October 2014
L'alliance des paysans riverains de Socfin, qui représente plusieurs milliers de paysans du Cameroun, de Sierra Leone, de Côte d'Ivoire et du Liberia, a rencontré le Groupe Bolloré dans un hôtel parisien.
Kuwait's Tijaria plans Turkish farmland investment
- Arabian Business
- 24 October 2014
The main objective of this investment is buying and developing pre-targeted farmlands in an area of 1,000 ha.
Investors pour cash into large-scale agricultural projects
- VietNamNet
- 24 October 2014
With the Economic Large-Scale Production (ELSP) model being implemented more frequently in Vietnam, more companies are looking to invest in agricultural production as it becomes more profitable and efficient.