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Malaysian firms will lose if Indonesia caps ownership
- Bernama
- 18 August 2014
Indonesian lawmakers are looking to restrict foreign ownership of plantations to no more than 30 per cent from a maximum of 95% currently.
PT PAL opens 3,500 hectares of new oil palm plantation in Papua
- Antara
- 18 August 2014
Subsidiary of Singapore-based Noble Group proceeds with controversial oil palm plantation on lands of the Kamoro people.
TIAA-CREF secures $1.4bn for second farmland vehicle
- AltAssets
- 18 August 2014
US pension fund manager TIAA-CREF has secured $1.4bn for its second agriculture fund from three unnamed investors, according to a document filed with the SEC.
Land Grab and the false promise of food security
- ECADF
- 18 August 2014
One can only speculate why the secretive government of Ethiopia is giving away the country’s fertile land to foreign agribusinesses.
Czech farmland fund raises €6m
- PEI
- 18 August 2014
Český fond půdy hopes to make 2,000 individual land acquisitions a year.
Sh400bn Galana irrigation scheme ‘back on course’
- Daily Nation
- 17 August 2014
Israeli firm Agri Green will put $651 million into financing a 10,000 acre model farm. Eventually, private investors are expected to acquire one million acres under irrigation.
¿Ha comprado Corea del Norte tierras en Zimbabue?
- RT
- 16 August 2014
El Gobierno de Corea del Norte rumorea que ha comprado grandes extensiones de tierra en Zimbabue para cultivar arroz, según el sitio de noticias zimbabuense 'The Telescope News'.
Uruguay: Estados extranjeros: cambios en proyecto sobre compra de tierras
- Espectador
- 15 August 2014
El Senado modificará el proyecto de ley que prohíbe la compra de inmuebles rurales y explotaciones agropecuarias por empresas en las que participen estados extranjeros.
Exigen a Paraguay y Guatemala restitución de tierras para campesinos
- Terra
- 15 August 2014
Las principales organizaciones y asociaciones campesinas de distintos países de Latinoamérica exigieron hoy a los mandatarios de Paraguay y Guatemala, que restituyan las "tierras despojadas de forma ilegal y con violencia" a las comunidades de labriegos.
Poll: family offices show greatest agri appetite
- PEI
- 15 August 2014
Some 33 percent of pollsters voted that family offices were showing the greatest appetite for the asset class, while 31 percent pointed to institutional investor demand.
Indonesia lawmakers draft bill to slash foreign ownership of plantations
- Reuters
- 15 August 2014
Indonesian lawmakers are looking to restrict foreign ownership of plantations to no more than 30 percent, as the top palm oil producer tries to maximise land usage, protect indigenous people and tighten environmental controls.
Colombia: Néstor Humberto Martínez, abogado del poder y ahora el “superministro” de Santos
- Las dos orillas
- 14 August 2014
Ha sido defensor de Pacific Rubiales, de Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo, del grupo Santo Domingo y de los grupos económicos que pelean por baldíos. Ahora llega a defender los intereses del Estado.
Vietnam’s leading company to Invest in rice production in Cambodia
- AKP
- 14 August 2014
An Giang Plant Protection Joint Stock Company says it plans to grow rice in Cambodia
Move to promote responsible agricultural investments in Africa
- Parliament of S.Africa
- 13 August 2014
This pan-African parliamentarian campaign against land grabbing by investors from developed countries is the brainchild of Mr Sisa Njikelana, former member of the South African Parliament
Millionaires dig dirt as Czech farm boom spawns fund
- Bloomberg
- 13 August 2014
Farmland ranked as the most attractive investment in a survey of 197 Czech and Slovak millionaires.