A first €20m has already been invested in olive orchards in Portugal, with possible investments in Danish organic vegetable farming, American potatoes, barley and wheat as well as kiwi fruit in New Zealand.
Large institutional investors are pouring capital into global agricultural markets, and Australia has been a key target.
- IPE Real Assets
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06 April 2020
The acquisition of one of Portugal’s biggest agricultural companies by Macau firm CESL Asia last year may yet be seen as a defining moment in the economic relationship between China, Portugal and the Macau SAR.
- Macau Daily
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29 January 2020
"2017 has been an exciting year for Pegasus Food Futures, as we acquired farms in Abu Dhabi, Ras-Al-Khaimah and two sites in Portugal," says UAE-based company which already owns farms in Oman, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and Bahrain.
- Pegasus FF
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06 December 2017
Ministers approved the sale of a New Zealand farm to a Panamanian firm whose treasurer was also a director of a company that Portugal believed laundered money for former Brazilian and Portuguese national soccer coach Luiz Felipe Scolari.
Hundreds of small farmers in northern Mozambique have been evicted since 2013 to make way for a mega farm that will produce the soybeans for feed for chickens
Un programme ProSavana, encourageant les méga-exploitations à s’installer, devrait être approuvé en 2016 par le gouvernement. Mais les expropriations ont déjà commencé.
- Le Monde
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07 December 2015
"Nous avons dû emmener nos biens et notre nourriture en portant tout sur nos têtes"
Le nord du Mozambique est convoité par les investisseurs étrangers pour son potentiel agricole, au grand dam de petits exploitants, expropriés pour laisser la place à de méga projets agricoles.
Mozambique Agriculture Company (Mozaco) of the João Ferreira dos Santos group has requested 2,000 acres in the Malema district of Nampula for soybean cultivation.
A organização ambientalista não governamental GRAIN reiterou hoje as acusações de usurpação de terras feitas à AgroMoz em Moçambique, depois de a empresa ter rejeitado as acusações iniciais de um relatório sobre este tema.
"O colonialismo português está de volta" é o título de um novo relatório sobre os negócios fundiários em Moçambique, centrado no Corredor de Nacala, no norte do país.