Alexander Tkachev, a former Russian agriculture minister, heads a family company that Ukrainian grain growers say has taken control of hundreds of thousands of acres of their land.
A clause in the 2023 budget states that "it is expected that large parcels of unutilised/unproductively used lands will be leased out on long-term basis to grow exportable crops"
- The Island
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05 December 2022
This article traces the ways the UAE utilises the private sector, agribusiness and logistics firms, alongside military power, to achieve so-called food security.
- New Political Economy
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05 December 2022
Last May, the Cameroonian government decided to allocate 95,000 hectares of land to the company Tawfiq Agro Industry to develop an agro-industrial facility aimed at reducing expensive Western food imports.
- Mongabay
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01 December 2022
Over 100 organisations denounce RSPO during its 19th general meeting for greenwashing environmental destruction, labour and human rights abuses and land grabbing by the palm oil industry
- Collective statement
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30 November 2022
The Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) has approved the sale of more than 100 hectares of Karuturi Flower Farm in Naivasha by Shalimar Flowers.
- The Standard
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29 November 2022
Total project area covers 25,000 hectares and will produce up to 17 MM tCO2e over life-of-project, with a further 37,000 hectares secured reforestation rights in Sierra Leone
- Klimat X
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29 November 2022
The Competition Authority of Kenya has given a ray of hope to more than 3,000 workers of Karuturi Flowers (200 ha) after it approved its purchase by Shalimar Flowers Kenya Limited.
- The Star
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28 November 2022
Frontal Trust develops strategic alliances with local agribusiness operators with the objective of structuring investment vehicles to fund their growth plans, and connecting capital to investment opportunities in Latin America farmland.
The five regional, mega agro-industrial parks "must become the horse on which the African Continental Free Trade Area must run".
- EABW News
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28 November 2022
For Minneapolis-based Proterra Investment Partners, the sale represents a second lucrative exit in its agricultural funds, after it sold a 22,386-hectare cropping portfolio in Victoria and South Australia last year.
A large Canadian pension fund which counts the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and defence force workers as members has acquired 35 vineyards in Australia from wine group Casella