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Dólares via “equity” e “barter Brasil-China”: a nova fase do plano de R$300 bi para conversão de pastagens degradadas
- AgFeed
- 15 September 2025
Programa Caminho Verde Brasil com foco em converter 40 milhões de ha de pastos degrados em monocultivos de soja pretende atrair investimentos estrangeiros oferencendo sociedade em terras agrícolas - modelos equity - ou por meio de pagamento com o produto da colheita - barter. Fiagros são visados para bular lei que limite controle de terras por estrangeiros.
Propietarios y arrendatarios, los dueños del agro
- El coehete a la luna
- 11 February 2025
Frente a crises de pools de siembra como de Los Grobo, empresas agroexportadoras - (ABCD, Vitarra (fusión de Bunge y Glencore), COFCO - que antes tenían los puertos para exportación, extendieron su actividad, primero al acopio, y luego al alquiler de campos bajo los esquemas del sistema financiero, que son básicamente los mismos que compraron los títulos de deuda de la Argentina.
Depuis la Suisse, les négociants agricoles tiennent 2,7 millions d'hectares de terres
- swissinfo
- 02 December 2021
Des recherches menées par l'ONG Public Eye révèlent que des sociétés de négoce contrôlent plus de 550 plantations couvrant quelque 2,7 millions d'hectares depuis leurs bureaux à Genève et Zoug.
Under the spotlight: Chinese banks' risky agribusiness portfolio
- Global Witness
- 07 June 2021
China is one of the world's largest consumers of agricultural commodities such as soy and palm oil that drive deforestation globally. But it isn’t just Chinese consumption of these commodities that is helping fuel forest destruction. Global Witness new analysis sheds a spotlight on the often-overlooked role of Chinese banks as some of the biggest global financiers of deforestation.
Key Cerrado deforesters in 2020 linked to the clearing of more than 110,000 hectares
- CRR
- 30 Mar 2021
A new report by Chain Reaction Research presents data on specific actors linked to Cerrado deforestation in 2020, including the quantified risk exposure of the largest soy traders, meatpackers, and retailers.
Fast food suppliers importing deforestation and violence from Brazil
- Greenpeace
- 03 December 2019
Mega-traders Cargill and Bunge are exporting soya from an agricultural estate in Brazil with a long record of violence, illegality, and environmental destruction, a Greenpeace International investigation has uncovered
COFCO says China can replace U.S. soy imports with alternatives: state media
- Reuters
- 11 July 2018
“In the long term, South America, and the Black Sea area still have great potential in their arable land, and can play a bigger role in the global soybean supply system,” says the president of state grains trader COFCO.
COFCO goes global to grow grain security
- China Daily
- 20 September 2017
COFCO Corp, China biggest agricultural products supplier by revenue, plans by 2020 to see 60 percent of its revenue contributed by overseas markets and control up to 50 million metric tons of foreign grain resources.
COFCO on the hunt for M&As
- China Daily
- 03 June 2016
The prime target markets for China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corp are the South and North Americas, and areas along the Black Sea in Europe.
Why are foreign investors interested in Kazakhstan’s agricultural sector?
- IWEP
- 29 Mar 2016
Many large agricultural corporations, especially Italian (Cremonini, Granorolo) and Chinese (Rifa, CITIC, COFCO) have stirred up negotiations regarding the building of full-scale production facilities in Kazakhstan.
New law allows foreign agricultural businesses to lease Kazakh land for 25 years
- Astana Times
- 02 February 2016
Kazakh authorities recently amended farm sector legislation allowing the country to prolong land leases for foreign investors from 10 to 25 years.
Noble exits agricultural markets with unit sale to China's COFCO
- Reuters
- 23 December 2015
Noble Group Ltd said on Tuesday it would sell its remaining 49 percent stake in its agribusiness to China's state-owned COFCO International Ltd