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Reuters | 22 Aug 2017
A group of state and private companies will invest a total of 6.9 billion yuan($1.04 billion) in COFCO Capital, a subsidiary of state-run agribusiness COFCO Group. |
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MNA | 21 Aug 2017
Deputy Iranian agriculture minister, while pointing to imports of rice from Uruguay, said Iran had made an overseas farming plan for cultivating rice in the South American country. |
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The Telegraph | 19 Aug 2017
Liu Yonghao, chairman of China’s agrichemical business New Hope has joined a brood of bidders for a £1bn takeover of Northern Irish poultry giant Moy Park. |
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Reuters | 19 Aug 2017
China's state-owned COFCO International Ltd (CIL) and U.S. farm cooperative Growmark Inc will partner in a deal that gives China more direct access to the food it imports. |
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African Business Magazine | 18 Aug 2017
Nigeria’s biggest private sector company, the Dangote Group, has decided to turn its attention to agribusiness. Dangote will pay the state government N1.2bn ($3.7m) for 16,000 hectares of land and give it an equity stake in the company. |
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Mongabay | 17 Aug 2017
Brazil’s Supreme Court made two key decisions that strongly favored the country’s indigenous communities last Wednesday, against the claims of Mato Grosso state. |
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Arab Finance | 16 Aug 2017
Egypt and the Korea-Arab Society (KAS) signed a cooperation protocol to build a $10 billion integrated agricultural city in the North African country. The city will be stretched over an area of 300,000 feddans (126,000 ha) in the southeast part of the Qattara Depression. |
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All Africa | 16 Aug 2017
A USD 310 million investment contract signed between private companies for Agro-industrial Complex of Capanda (PAC) in northern Malanje province, Angola. The Agro-industrial Park occupies an area of 411.000 hectares. |
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Global Voices | 16 Aug 2017
65 civil society organizations (CSOs) and non-government organizations (NGOs) from across the world signed a unity statement urging Cambodian government to release land rights activist Tep Vanny, who has been in detention for the past 12 months. |
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Addis Fortune | 12 Aug 2017
The Oromia Investment Commission (OIC) faced a challenge in relocating 600 farmers from the 335ha of land leased to European Food and Cattle Plc in East Shoa, Ethiopia. Farmers, who claim the compensation is too low, resist relocating from the area.
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Business Wire | 04 Aug 2017
GMORR manages approximately $2.1 billion in rural real estate assets across eight countries and 600,000 hectares. |
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GAI | 24 Jul 2017
Hassad Australia, a $469 million farming company and wholly owned subsidiary of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund has sold the Clover Downs Station located in Queensland, Australia, to farmer Bill Zell for $27 million. |
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