Amatheon’s Ugandan plans comprise rainfed growing of crops such as maize, soya beans, sunflower, rice and sorghum, and it is actively looking into livestock production.
- Red Pepper
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05 January 2015
The Data Institute has released a US$30,000 "aquisition manual” for Karuturi Global Ltd.
- Data Institute
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16 December 2014
On January 22 a comprehensive database on land and resource governance programmes funded by members of the Global Donor Working Group on Land will be presented during the AGA in Paris.
- Donor Platform
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16 January 2014
PGGM manages an agriculture portfolio comprising around 300,000 hectares of purchased farmland in three major food-producing regions: Eastern Europe, Australia and South America.
Dutch pension funds, banks and corporations - and even the government - are implicated in the new wave of land and water grabbing worldwide.
Swedish, Norwegian and Dutch investors in Mozambique land grab: powerful new documentary gives a compelling visual portrait of how investment by private financial players can undermine food security and human rights in developing countries.
Dutch pension funds say they will remain invested in Wilmar International due to their successful efforts to engage with the controversial palm-oil company accused by many of land grabbing
Het Maleisische palmoliebedrijf Wilmar is wereldwijd op grote schaal betrokken bij landroof, milieuovertredingen en schending van nationale wetten bij palmolieprojecten.
- Duurzaamnieuws
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13 May 2013
Farmland prices are firming across much of Central and Eastern Europe, as interest from institutional investors -- mainly pension funds -- begins to translate into transactions on the ground.
- Farmers Weekly
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21 April 2013
De hoorzitting over landroof die afgelopen maandag in de Tweede Kamer werd gehouden benadrukte het belang van transparantie in het beleid. Ook werd het Nederlandse bedrijfsleven aangesproken op haar verantwoordelijkheid om het landroof probleem een halt toe te roepen.
- Vice Versa
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12 February 2013
‘Feed Indonesia, then feed the world’. Backed by this slogan Indonesia companies, and companies from South Korea, China and Singapore as well, are buying land in the Indonesian province of West Papua in order to grow crops.
- Awas MIfee
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11 February 2013
A delegation of peasants from Niassa recently travelled to The Netherlands and met lawmakers, students and investors in the Chikweti plantations, including the Dutch national pension fund ABP, the biggest investor in the project.
- Water Channel
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01 October 2012
