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Capital FM | 05 Aug 2015
The Ugandan Government has released a statement to disprove allegations levelled against Kenya’s Bidco Oil Company over land. |
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Agri Investor | 04 Aug 2015
TIAA-CREF has closed its second global agriculture fund, TIAA-CREF Global Agriculture II, on $3 billion, exceeding its $2.5 billion target. The fund had raised $1.7 billion by mid-June. |
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IPE | 04 Aug 2015
Sweden’s AP2 and UK local authority funds are among the backers of a new $3bn global agriculture fund. |
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Global Ag Investing | 04 Aug 2015
New TIAA-CREF fund will invest in “high quality farmland assets” across North America, South America, Australia and parts of Europe with a focus on major grain exporting regions. |
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The Australian | 04 Aug 2015
New Hope Group announced last year it would invest $500m into Australian agribusiness, and its chairman Liu Yonghao revealed majority of the fund would support New Hope Dairy’s projects in Australia. |
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Dow Jones Business News | 04 Aug 2015
TIAA-CREF is expected to announce Tuesday that it has raised $3 billion for its second global farmland-investment partnership, exceeding its initial target of $2.5 billion. |
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Bloomberg | 04 Aug 2015
Australia is facing $43 billion foreign farming frenzy by Chinese companies, spurred by mounting food security needs and a push to “go global.” |
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Sun Star | 03 Aug 2015
New Britain Palm Oil Ltd (NBPOL), a palm oil company operating in Papua New Guinea and in Solomon Islands is looking at Mindanao as its next area for expansion. |
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New York Times | 01 Aug 2015
Golden Veroleum has denied using the Ebola crisis to take advantage of Liberian communities but local officials and en disagree. |
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NBC News | 31 Jul 2015
Farmers from drought-parched California are finding greener pastures in the Pacific Northwest -- and so are buyers from China. |
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ABC | 31 Jul 2015
Les investisseurs chinois s'intéressent surtout aux meilleures terres, notamment au bassin Murray-Darling, qui est la principale surface agricole d'Australie |
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Guardian | 30 Jul 2015
Hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from World Bank’s private lending arm used to expand industrial farms amid mounting concern about local effects |
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Tribune | 30 Jul 2015
Près de 80% des ménages ruraux dans les pays en développement dépendent de la terre pour nourrir leurs familles et assurer leur subsistance. |
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PRNewswire | 29 Jul 2015
Condamné à deux ans de prison ferme pour « outrage à magistrat », la Cour d'appel de Moundou a prononcé la relaxe inconditionnelle du défenseur des droits à la terre. |
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Stuff | 28 Jul 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. |
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JCC | 28 Jul 2015
Presentation made by the 3rd Joint Coordination Committee of ProSAVANA on December 3, 2012 in Nampula |
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NZ Farmer | 15 Jul 2015
PGG, which is half owned by Agria Corporation of China, purchased 50% of Uruguay seed producer and farm servicing company Agrocentro Uruguay. |
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World Bank | 13 Jul 2015
The UN's Economic Commission, Germany's BMZ and the World Bank signed a Declaration of Intent to establish a new Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa to better secure land rights across Africa. |
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Reuters | 09 Jul 2015
Kenya-based private equity house Fanisi Capital said on Thursday it had bought a stake in a Tanzanian agro-processing company for $6 million, expanding its footprint in the region. |
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Act Now | 08 Jul 2015
Even though the Commission of Inquiry into the land grab has found the SABL process was flawed, land grabbing continues. Many communities are still not aware of what SABL is and how customary land is being stolen. |
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DFID | 21 Jun 2015
The UK government publishes the first issue of its Land Policy Bulletin, produced by its Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development (LEGEND) programme. |
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