• Singapore looks to China for food security
    • New York Times
    • 27 September 2010

    Singapore is eyeing a gigantic farming project in northeast China that could help the small, densely populated city-state diversify its food supplies, while offering export opportunities for its expertise in food safety and investment opportunities for its businesses.

  • The mob action in Tema
    • Ghana Web
    • 23 September 2010

    Wilmar claim to be investing in project that will employ 500 people with investment capital of $40 million. Yet the land in question supports the entire fishing industry in Tema.

  • Tema Manhean residents halt edible oil refinery Project
    • GBC
    • 18 September 2010

    Some natives of Tema Manhean have prevented officials of WILMAR, a Singaporean edible oil refinery company, from developing a piece of land near the naval base which was allegedly sold to the company by the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority.

  • Tema fishermen halt sale of land
    • Ghana Web
    • 17 September 2010

    About 200 Ghanian fishermen and fishmongers resisted attempts to clear a fish processing area for the construction of a palm oil processing site by Wilmar Edible Oil Refinery Project (WEORP), a Singaporean firm.

  • Red corn for a food-secure future
    • Phnom Penh Post
    • 07 September 2010

    HLH Agriculture is a Singaporean firm running 10,000 ha project in Cambodia to produce corn for export to Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand.

  • Wilmar secures 200,000 hectares of land in Merauke Food Estate for sugar plant
    • Indonesia Today
    • 02 September 2010

    Company "currently assessing the quality of the land."

  • Olam launches NZ Farming Systems counter-offer
    • NZ Herald
    • 24 August 2010

    Olam International raised its offer for NZ Farming Systems Uruguay to 70 cents from 55 cents a day after the target company disclosed a third bidder is looking at the dairy farm develope

  • Asian interest boosts Liberia palm oil hopes
    • Financial Times
    • 17 August 2010

    Singapore-listed Golden Agri Resources said it was “actively evaluating” taking a share in a 220,000-hectare project being offered by the government of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.

  • Gabon Government signs $4.5 billion accords on infrastructure, agriculture
    • Bloomberg
    • 15 August 2010

    Singapore-based Olam will develop a palm-oil plantation covering as much as 300,000 hectares in the southeast of the country.

  • Le Gabon signe de contrats de 4,5 M USD avec l'Inde et Singapour
    • Xinhua
    • 15 August 2010

    Olam, multinationale basée à Singapour réalisera un programme de développement de 200.000 hectares de palmeraies pour un investissement total de 800 millions USD.

  • Takeover bid may struggle after 50.1pc, says broker
    • NZ Herald
    • 22 July 2010

    If the offer is successful, Singapore's Olam will either hold 100 per cent or between 50.1 per cent and 90 per cent of NZ Farming Systems Uruguay

  • Indonesia census turns up Papua tribe living in trees
    • Reuters
    • 24 June 2010

    A tribe of hunter gatherers living in trees in the forests of Papua, near the planned Merauke food estate where Wilmar and other firms plan to get farmland, has been discovered officially for the first time.

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