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Ogun launches 10 hectares cassava pilot farm
- Business Day
- 09 April 2014
The pilot farm, which will serve as a prelude to a bigger 4,000 hectares cassava farm by Flour Mills of Nigeria and other investors, is supported by the USAID.
Egypt eyes more Gulf investment on back of agricultural deal
- World News
- 09 April 2014
Egypt plans to lease 25,200 hectares of agricultural land this year to a firm affiliated with an Arab investment body, its agriculture minister said,
Argentina: Los chinos ya se quedan con el 10% de los embarques de granos
- Clarín
- 09 April 2014
La firma Cofco compró Nidera y Noble y ahora ocupa el segundo lugar entre exportadoras.Superaron a Bunge y Dreyfus y están solos detrás de Cargill.
Al Dahra Intl Investment gets nod to acquire 51% of Serbia's Rudnap Agrar
- SeeNews
- 09 April 2014
Serbia's anti-trust regulator said it has cleared plans by UAE-based Al Dahra International Investment to take over from Serbia's Rudnap Group a 51% stake in Belgrade-based agriculture company Rudnap Agrar.
Mauritanie: "l’Etat ne brade les terres agricoles" (Président)
- Alakhbar
- 08 April 2014
Le président mauritanien a démenti avoir bradé les terres agricoles de la Vallée dans le Sud du pays à des étrangers.
Cameroon: Upheaval in Nguti as impoverished communities urge banishment of Herakles Farms
- All Voices
- 08 April 2014
A demonstration the likes of which had never been seen before in that locality was witnessed in Babensi 2 village April 4 when more than 300 people staged a protest march against the American agro-industrial company.
La reforma al campo, cuentos chinos
- La Jornada
- 08 April 2014
Un rumor recorre el mundo rural mexicano: en ejidos y comunidades se anticipa el inminente desembarco de inversionistas chinos en actividades agropecuarias
Sul-africana Alfa Agriculture aposta em Moçambique
- Portuguese Independent News
- 08 April 2014
O aumento da produção de soja e gergelim na província de Nampula está a despertar o interesse dos investidores da Alfa Agriculture, de capital sul-africano.
Stop corporate land bazaar in Edo State, ERA/FoEN cautions
- ERA
- 08 April 2014
The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria has cautioned the Edo State Government from going ahead with plans to allocate 410,000 ha of forest land belonging to community people to corporations
L’accaparement de terres et la concentration foncière menacent-ils l’agriculture et les campagnes françaises ?
- Basta !
- 07 April 2014
La course aux hectares agricoles gagne la France.
Ploughing protesters highlight land grab grievances in Myanmar
- SCMP
- 07 April 2014
Myanmar's swift economic development has been marked by the rise of a new class of political dissidents: the ploughing protesters.
Big Chinese soy project in Brazil: so far, just an empty field
- Reuters
- 04 April 2014
No signs identify a barren field in northeastern Brazil that was meant to be the center of one of China's most ambitious agricultural forays into South America.
Sit-in des victimes d’expropriation au Mali : Les maires bientôt dessaisis de terres
- L'Indicateur du Renouveau
- 04 April 2014
Sur les 70 cas sur la table de négociation entre les victimes d’expropriation et le Premier ministre Oumar Tatam Ly, une dizaine a trouvé une solution.
Le programme des Parcs Agro-industriels, risques ou opportunités pour l’agriculture familiale ?
- LVPC
- 03 April 2014
Le gouvernement vient de lancer le programme des Parcs Agro-Industriels qui risque de déplacer massivement les paysans.
Black Earth Farming Ltd announces the divestment of Podgornoe and Ostrogozhsk assets
- Global Newswire
- 03 April 2014
Black Earth Farming sells 28,000 ha of farmlands in Voronezh, Russia to company owned by Ukrainian oligarch Oleg Bakhmatyuk and US grain trader Cargill.