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Asia leads the charge in Aussie land grab
- ANA
- 02 July 2011
Asian investors have overtaken Europeans as the biggest buyers of Australian land, a snapshot of foreign acquisitions reveals.
Investissement étranger au Gabon : liaisons dangereuses ?
- Jeune Afrique
- 01 June 2011
La première phase d’investissement du projet, piloté par Olam Palm Gabon, démarrera en octobre, avec la plantation de 50 000 ha de palmeraies dans la région de Lambaréné (Moyen-Ogooué) et de 8 000 ha dans la région de Kango (Estuaire), à une centaine de kilomètres de Libreville
Q+A: Palm oil, growth and Indonesia's forest clearing ban
- Reuters
- 26 May 2011
Indonesia, the world's No.1 palm oil producer, signed into law a 2-year freeze on new permits that may prompt palm oil firms to seek new ways to grow supply to meet rising demand from India and China, such as buying more land in Africa
Oil-palm land resource rush slippery in Africa?
- Commodity Online
- 30 April 2011
Southeast Asian palm oil firms like Malaysia's Sime Darby and Singapore's Golden Agri Resources are backpacking to Africa, in what could be the planet’s next trend-setter in inter-continental resource trade.
Cargill unit Black River plans $400 mln Asian food fund
- Reuters
- 20 April 2011
Black River's investment pipeline includes a Chinese pork producer and distributor, a duck farming firm in northern China, a fish producer in Costa Rica and a frozen fish processor in Singapore.
Cane growers fear potential Wilmar deal
- North Queensland Register
- 03 April 2011
Wilmar's take-over of Sucrogen gave the company a significant amount of cane land that it increased with the purchase of additional farms to guarantee cane supply, outbidding local farmers for land.
Gabon : Olam démarre ses palmeraies en octobre prochain
- AGP
- 13 Mar 2011
Le groupe singapourien Olam démarre en octobre prochain, un projet de 300 000 hectares de palmiers à huile. Le ministère de l’Agriculture lance une opération d’identification des populations rurales en vue de leur expropriation.
UAE eyes investment in Chinese agriculture sector
- Emirates 24/7
- 12 Mar 2011
The UAE and other Gulf states in collaboration with Singapore companies are entering the Chinese agriculture market to ensure food security.
Asia's hungry agribusinesses
- Barron's
- 08 January 2011
The global boom in commodities has raised the profile of three Asian agribusinesses: Olam, Wilmar and Noble, all with important farmland holdings.
Olam invests US$1.5b in Gabon
- Channel News
- 15 November 2010
Olam CEO says his company utilises political risk insurance from the World Bank and other sources for its agri-investments in Africa.
Olam to invest USD236 mln in palm oil plantations in Gabon
- Olam
- 15 November 2010
Gabon committs a land bank of 300,000 hectares to Olam for palm and rubber plantation development.
GM 'lesser of two evils': Olam
- The Land
- 04 October 2010
Mr Verghese says that Olam sees "sustainable value" in investing in agriculture, including farmland, and that GM crops are an inevitable "must".