Le groupe américain mène «une mission de prospection qui vise à implanter en Afrique, notamment au Cameroun, au Liberia et en Côte d’Ivoire, une vaste plantation de palmier à huile.» On parle de 50000 ha.
- Investir au Cameroun
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20 May 2012
Corporate control of Australia’s farmland is beginning to ruffle feathers among some of the country’s primary producers.
- Western Producer
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23 Mar 2012
A hedge fund run by an arm of the world's largest agriculture company, Cargill, has injected almost $40 million into a local company which buys Australian rural property.
- Australian Financial Review
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13 February 2012
Una noticia de la semana pasada daba cuenta de la inversión creciente de grandes multinacionales en compra de tierras en Colombia. Específicamente señalaba la compra de 90.000 hectáreas por la empresa norteamericana Cargill, la mayor comercializadora del mundo de materias primas agrícolas.
- Diario del Huila
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27 January 2012
Hace algunos meses, Cargill emprendió en la altillanura colombiana un proyecto de producción de cereales que involucra 90.000 hectáreas en el departamento del Meta, y ya invirtió 100.000 millones de pesos en la compra de tierras.
- El Tiempo
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14 January 2012
Cargill's hedge fund acquires major stake in company acquiring plantations in Mindanao, the Philippines to produce rice, corn, banana and vegetables.
- Business World
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02 January 2012
Black River Capital Partners Fund (Food) LP, a fund managed by the private equity arm of US agribusiness and trading giant Cargill, has offered to acquire 28.11 percent of Philippine fruit and vegetable grower AgriNurture Inc. for $30.4 million.
- Manila Standard
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04 October 2011
Cargill CEO says he's "concerned" about foreign farmland grabs and says "no company's big enough to be a police force onto itself".
Newly uncovered customs data unearthed by Rainforest Action Network links agriculture trading giant Cargill to recent acts of violence, intimidation and home demolition against Indigenous villagers on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Australians do realise the value of what is being sold, a land agent and rural property specialist said, "but their hands are tied because they can't raise the money".
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.
Corporations and bankers do not believe in farming as a way of life; they believe in farming as a very profitable business that they control. Their goal is not to improve family farming in Africa, but to eradicate it.
