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Agrimoney | 16 Dec 2015
Craigmore highlighted resilient demand for investing in dairy, as it revealed it had raised $51m for its second New Zealand farmland fund, 14 months after closing its first. |
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ABC | 16 Dec 2015
Chinese businessman Lu Xianfeng said he wants to increase production, to meet a booming Chinese demand. |
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Reuters | 16 Dec 2015
Dongfang Modern said in a statement that it was buying 5,270 hectares of land via two deals in the province of Jiangxi for $76 million. The company will own more than 8,000 hectares after the deals are completed. |
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EBRD | 16 Dec 2015
The EBRD is providing a loan of up to US$85 million to Ukrainian agribusiness producer PJSC Myronivsky Hliboproduct to support the integration of farms from the former Swedish-owned company Agrokultura. |
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IPS | 15 Dec 2015
Farmers and activists in Cameroon say a jail sentence handed down on an environmentalist who exposed land-grabbing by a multinational agro-industrial company, sends a dangerous signal to communities trying to protect their lands. |
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Awoko | 14 Dec 2015
About 1 million hectares of lands in Sierra Leone are presently in the hands of multinational companies, says Green Scenery. |
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Nyasa Times | 14 Dec 2015
“Grabbed by multinationals? Who is grabbing? Well, I just don’t think that’s true. Some of these civil society organisations should be questioned on how they analyse issues," says Malawi's President to BBC. |
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TNI | 14 Dec 2015
Parallel to the climate conference in Paris, social movements and allies within the ‘Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles’ discuss climate justice and real solutions to the climate crisis. |
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PNA | 11 Dec 2015
Laos says it will expand agricultural plantation areas and set up plantation regions to boost exports to China. |
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PLAAS | 11 Dec 2015
This is the question addressed by researchers and activists at a recent IDRC Workshop on Large-scale Land Acquisitions (LSLAs) and Accountability in Africa, in Dakar, Senegal on 24-25 November 2015. |
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China Daily | 10 Dec 2015
US real estate company Property Connections of Bay City says it has sold over $100 million worth of farmland in Texas in the last two years to Chinese buyers. |
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PLAAS | 10 Dec 2015
The Namibian government has received proposals from multinational agribusiness to develop large-scale agricultural irrigation projects but only a few of have materialised or have been operationalised. |
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Deal Street Asia | 10 Dec 2015
Two Singaporean agriculture and property group, HLH and Select Group has acquired a 30 per cent interest in two plots of lands in Cambodia through its subsidiary. |
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PAN AP | 10 Dec 2015
To mark the International Human Rights Day today, peasant and indigenous groups are filing cases to seek justice for victims of human rights violations related to land conflicts. |
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Mongabay | 07 Dec 2015
Oil palm plantations have sprung up at breakneck speed across Indonesia’s ravaged hinterlands, eating away at the forests and propelling this country of 250 million to become the world’s sixth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases. |
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LSE | 15 Oct 2015
DekelOil Public Limited, operator and 51% owner of the vertically integrated Ayenouan palm oil project in Côte d'Ivoire, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a contract to develop 10,000 hectares of brownfield land in West Ghana. |
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Weekly Citizen | 05 Oct 2015
A new controversy has erupted at the multi-million American investor farm at the Yala swamp in Kadenge, Siaya county over establishment of a sugar mill and cultivation of cane in the area. |
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