Cargill Archive

• Reuters10 May 10

  Cargill’s Black River eyes food, land deals

  Cargill's private equity firm says it will set up farms in Asia where "there is a huge lack of competency in farm management practices."
• Reuters07 May 10

  Funds flow toward farmland as experts eye deals

  Cargill and Bunge among firms setting up funds to buy farms in Asia and South America.
• Business Times26 Feb 10

  Kulim buys PNG oil palm estates for US$175m

  Plantation company Kulim Bhd is paying US$175 million to buy some 25,000ha of oil palm estates in Papua New Guinea from the world's largest agribusiness company, Cargill Inc, and Singapore government investment arm Temasek Holdings.
• RAN24 Feb 10

  Cargill leaves a palm oil mess in Papua New Guinea

  Cargill Inc., the world’s largest agribusiness company, has announced the sale of their palm oil plantations in the remote tropical nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG)
• Financial Times10 Nov 09

  Cargill warns on self-sufficiency

  Paul Conway, senior vice-president at Cargill, calls food self-sufficiency "a nonsense" and warns that overseas food production through land grabs will likely run into export bans by host countries
• Mongabay25 Sep 09

  Palm oil developers in Papua New Guinea accused of deception in dealing with communities

  While Cargill says it is committed to sustainable and responsible palm oil production across its three plantations in PNG, the firm has been targeted by local and international NGOs, which claim it has polluted rivers and deceived local communities into signing agreements they do not understand.
• L'Hebdo03 Sep 09

  Ethiopia. Now is harvest time

  In June 2009, the Indian company Karuturi took up intensive farming in Ethiopia. The harvest will be exported to Asia and Europe.
• L'Hebdo03 Sep 09

  Ethiopie. L’heure de la moisson a sonné

  Indiens et Saoudiens sont sur le point d’effectuer leur première récolte sur sol éthiopien. Le pays a prévu de céder 2,7 millions d’hectares aux étrangers.
• Vedomosti21 Jul 08

  Sociétés russes et étrangères investissent activement dans les terres agricoles en Russie

  Les compagnies étrangères cotées dans les bourses européennes achètent activement des terres agricoles en Russie