Salim preempts San Miguel, ties up with Malaysia’s Kuok
    First Pacific's partnership with Kuok may have virtually killed San Miguel’s planned $1-billion joint agriculture project with the Malaysian tycoon.
    • Manila Standard
    • 20 November 2014
    MoU signed for agricultural investment fund
    Sudan signs an MOU for the establishment of an agriculture investment fund with a Lebanese company owned by Fras Badra that is pursuing an 87,000 ha alfalfa project.
    • SUNA
    • 20 November 2014
    Palm oil interest surges in Papua New Guinea
    As the lands of traditional palm oil powerhouses like Indonesia and Malaysia have become saturated with plantations, companies looking to profit have turned to areas of tropical forest elsewhere – like Papua New Guinea.
    • Mongabay
    • 19 November 2014
    Regla número uno: Investiga a quién das el dinero de los contribuyentes
    La inversión de 40 millones de Exteriores en un fondo domiciliado en un paraíso fiscal abre el debate sobre el control de las subvenciones en Cooperación
    • La Vanguardia
    • 19 November 2014
    German company to open pig farm in Serbia
    Germany’s largest meat producer Clemens Toennies will finalise a deal for a pig farm with 1,500,000 animal units on 15,000 hectares of land in Serbia.
    • inSerbia
    • 19 November 2014
    Mali : Directives volontaires pour une gouvernance responsable des régimes fonciers
    La CNOP estime que leur application sera cruciale pour la sécurisation des droits fonciers, surtout au Mali où l’accaparement des terres est en passe de devenir le sport favoris de certains spéculateurs.
    • Le Républicain
    • 19 November 2014
    Colombia: Un manual de acaparamiento
    El objetivo del proyecto de ley 133 de 2014 presentado a la Cámara de Representantes por el gobierno nacional es el de legalizar y perpetuar el acaparamiento especulativo de tierras baldías.
    • ALAI
    • 18 November 2014
    Greenland in talks to acquire Australian food and wine companies
    Chinese state-owned company, Greenland Holding Group, is in talks with Australian agricultural companies on possible takeovers and plans to complete its first deal in six months.
    • Bloomberg
    • 18 November 2014
    ¿Acaparamiento de tierra o ayuda al desarrollo?
    La agencia de cooperación española subvenciona a una empresa que paga un dólar al día a sus trabajadores en la RDC. La Aecid dice que pedirá explicaciones al Fondo Africano para la Agricultura, al que ha destinado 40 millones de euros.
    • La Vanguardia
    • 18 November 2014
    China's New Hope to invest in Australian dairy
    Chinese giant New Hope will invest up to $500 million in Australian dairy farms in what could be the first of many deals fuelled by the historic China-Australia free trade agreement.
    • Sydney Morning Herald
    • 18 November 2014
    Changing the face of real estate in Angola
    China's CITIC Construction says it has developed two 10,000 hectare farms in Angola and will invest $5 billion in a 500,000 hectare farm next year.
    • China Daily
    • 18 November 2014
    Les belles histoires de l’agriculture familiale
    Au cours des 50 dernières années, quatre cultures industrielles, le soja, le palmier à huile, le colza et la canne à sucre, se sont emparés de 140 millions d’hectares, un chiffre absolument stupéfiant. Et cette tendance s’accélère.
    • GRAIN
    • 18 November 2014
    Communities as counterparties
    Review of concessions and conflict in eight emerging and frontier markets finds more than 93% of mining, oil & gas, logging, and agriculture developments involve inhabited land.
    • Global Landscapes Forum
    • 18 November 2014
    Tony Tiu's AgriNurture swings to loss
    Farming revenues also plunged 64 percent, as AgriNurture closed its rice farming operations.
    • ABS-CBN
    • 17 November 2014
    Consórcio estatal chinês vai investir quase 4.000 ME na agricultura angolana
    Um consórcio estatal chinês vai investir 5.000 milhões de dólares (3.990 milhões de euros) numa herdade de 500.000 hectares em Angola em 2015, para "ajudar a reduzir a dependência alimentar" daquele país, disse hoje o China Daily.
    • RTP
    • 17 November 2014
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