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Southern Harvest buys 2,700 hectares of farming land in Romania
- Act Media
- 12 February 2016
The farmland area owned in Romania by Southern Harvest, a subsidiary of the US investment fund Anholt Services, just grew by 45%
Brasil: Gigante dos investimentos é acusada de grilagem de terras
- IHU
- 12 February 2016
Em um esforço gigantesco, o grupo financeiro americano e seus parceiros acumularam vastas áreas agrícolas, apesar de uma tentativa do governo brasileiro em 2010 para proibir que tais negócios se efetivassem em grande escala por parte de exploradores estrangeiros.
TIAA-CREF responds to allegations of Brazilian land grabbing
- The Takeaway
- 18 January 2016
One of the largest pension investors in the United States, TIAA-CREF, is facing accusations that its investments in Brazilian farmland are not socially responsible, or even illegal.
Saudi dairy company Almarai buys land in California to grow fodder
- Reuters
- 10 January 2016
Almarai, which already owns land in Arizona, said the purchase was part of efforts to secure high-quality hay from outside Saudi Arabia, in line with Saudi government policy.
Concerned citizens present petition denouncing arrest and detention of Ethiopian human rights defenders
- ASO
- 17 December 2015
A petition denouncing the unjust imprisonment of three Ethiopian human rights defenders is being presented this week to the Ethiopian government as well as its financial backers.
Inner Mongolia investors fancy Houston properties
- China Daily
- 10 December 2015
US real estate company Property Connections of Bay City says it has sold over $100 million worth of farmland in Texas in the last two years to Chinese buyers.
Golden Oil Holdings Limited subsidiary of African Agriculture Fund, L.L.C. early warning of agreement to acquire securities of Feronia Inc.
- Marketwired
- 04 December 2015
AAF's $1.8 million purchase of convertible debentures could take the development bank-backed fund's ownership of DR Congo's biggest oil palm plantation company to 47%.
'It's very, very hard to lose money on farmland'
- Agrimoney
- 02 December 2015
"There is no limit to the scale we can achieve" says Farmland Partners CEO, as his company plans to branch out from US into Australia and New Zealand.
US fund plans to plough into African agricultural sector
- Business Day
- 25 November 2015
One Thousand & One Voices (1K1V) — a US-based private capital fund backed by some influential family investors — is on the hunt for opportunities in the sub-Saharan Africa agricultural sector.
RDC: Enquêtes et actes d'intimidation contre le défenseur des droits humains Augustin Alphonse Bofaka et d'autres défenseurs des droits humains
- FrontLineDefenders
- 23 November 2015
L'acharnement est considéré comme une tentative de les faire taire afin qu'ils arrêtent leur travail légitime de plaidoyer contre l'accaparement des terres et autres violations des droits humains entraînées par la société Feronia.
DRC: Investigation and intimidation against HRD Augustin Alphonse Bofaka and other human rights defenders
- FrontLineDefenders
- 23 November 2015
Intelligence agency interrogates people it suspects of leading protests against Canadian oil palm company, Feronia, owned by European and US governments.
This socially responsible pension fund invested in Brazilian farms seized by violent land grabbers
- VICE
- 18 November 2015
An American investment giant that manages multi-billion-dollar pension funds in the United States, Canada, and Sweden faces allegations that it has circumvented Brazilian laws on foreign acquisition of farmland