A Michigan pension fund wanted to grow the second-largest coffee farm in Hawaii. What happened there demonstrates the perils of investing public workers’ savings in private markets.
This acquisition also acts to solidify Unifrutti’s position as a leading grape grower and exporter in the Southern Hemisphere, giving the company control of 4,300 hectares of table grape farms producing approximately 15 million boxes, or 120,000 metric tons of fruit per year.
La compra del 100% de Safco marca un nuevo paso en la estrategia de Unifrutti, propiedad del fondo soberano emirati. Safco opera cerca de 560 hectáreas de uva de mesa en Ica, una de las principales zonas productoras del país.
Ley recien aprobada em Perú promueve la formalización de predios individuales superpuestos en territorios comunales ocupados entre 2004 y 2015, abriendo paso al despojo sistemático de tierras ancestrales y debilitando la cohesión social de más de 2,000 comunidades campesinas. Campesinos exigen la inconstitucionalidad de la Ley.
Peruvian Agriculture Minister Angel Manero on Monday announced some $24 billion in largely public-private projects to improve irrigation in the Andean nation, as the government looks to expand its farmlands by some one million hectares
ATGRO SCR already has two assets in its portfolio: an investment in pistachio plantations, with more than 3,200 hectares, and Ecosac, Peru’s second-largest exporter of seedless table grapes.
Con casi 20 mil hectáreas de tierras y mega proyectos de riego en la costa, Perú si convirte en el mayor exportador mundial de arándanos frescos, la mitad tiene cómo destino los Estados Unidos. Mientras tanto, el pago diario a los cosechadores cubre el costo de tres paquetes de arándanos en Nueva York.
US-based Agrovision says this acquisition is “the first major step” in establishing “a 52-week cherry supply strategy,” and that the company intends to plant up to 500 hectares of proprietary cherry varieties in Chile.
Toesca Permanent Crops II aims to invest US $350mn in a portfolio of permanent crops based on regenerative and sustainable practices, in Chile, Peru and other Latin American countries.
Elaia, the agricultural platform of Atitlan, acquires Ecosac, a Peruvian company specializing in grape and canned pepper production with 2,500 hectares currently under production and another 2,500 in reserve.
4 megaproyectos de infraestructura para irrigación pretende incorporar más de 236,000 hectáreas a la frontera agrícola para exportación de Perú. Un de los proyectos de irrigación cuenta con un contrato con Canadá con una inversión aproximada de 750 millones de dólares.
The US food and drink giant PepsiCo has been linked through its supply chain to Amazon deforestation and the invasion of Indigenous lands in Peru, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), Mongabay and Peruvian outlet Ojo Público can reveal.
