US investor snaps up almond orchard for $98m
- Farm Weekly
- 06 September 2020
Rural Funds Management has announced the sale of its Mooral almond orchard to Boston-based Hancock Agricultural Investment Group
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Louis Dreyfus in talks to sell stake to Abu Dhabi’s ADQ
- Bloomberg
- 05 September 2020
For the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund a minority stake in one of the largest grain traders could boost food security for the United Arab Emirates, amid concerns brought on by disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Who pays the price of King Leopold’s Bugatti?
- Oakland Institute
- 04 September 2020
A private collection of some of the world’s fanciest cars, belonging to Hubert Fabri, a Belgian millionaire and co-owner of the plantation company SOCFIN, will be auctioned at a sale at the Hampton Court Palace in London.
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Elite Agro invests in Indonesia
- FruitNet
- 04 September 2020
Indonesia's Minister of State-Owned Enterprises said that the aim was to boost food security in the country and improve the quality of domestically grown products to give them export value, with a view to exporting to countries in Africa and the Middle East.
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Côte d’Ivoire agriculture project secures Atradius-backed financing
- GTE Review
- 04 September 2020
Israeli and Dutch firms, backed by the Dutch export credit agency, have signed a €108mn deal to construct four agriculture production and training centres across Côte d’Ivoire. The scheme is devised by Green 2000, an Israel-headquartered company that specialises in agriculture projects. It involves the construction of four agriculture services and training centres, which provide land, facilities and machinery for producing fruit, vegetables, fish and other products.
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Chinese hog breeder cooperates with authorities over land probe
- Bloomberg
- 01 September 2020
State radio reported last week that hog farm expansions financed by the World Bank in Henan’s Nanyang had allegedly taken farmland illegally from wheat farmers, threatening the nation’s grain security.
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Banks funnelled over USD 150 billion into companies driving deforestation since Paris Agreement, new data analyses shows
- Forests & Finance
- 01 September 2020
First-ever database reveals true scope of financing of forest-risk commodity companies, amidst global rainforest fires
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Raped off their land: hallowing tales of Kiryandongo evictees
- Observer
- 01 September 2020
Numerous women say they were raped by workers of three multinational companies that have been evicting people off a chunk of land in Uganda measuring about 37.8 square miles to establish large scale commercial farms.
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Renewed tensions over commercial farming on Ugandan abandoned land
- Reuters
- 28 August 2020
Thousands of families say they have been displaced from their homes to make way for commercial farms
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Agilis Partners speaks out on land grabbing allegations
- Uganda Tribune
- 27 August 2020
Agilis Partners has released a statement denying all allegations of land grabbing and assuring the public and its stakeholders that they have not evicted anyone from their land.
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Cambodia’s land concessions yield few benefits, sow social and environmental devastation
- Radio Free Asia
- 26 August 2020
Over the past two decades, Cambodia’s land leasing policy has led to more than a tenth of the country’s land area being leased and has become increasingly controversial because of its negative impact on local livelihoods.
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Foreign investors responsible for land evictions- report
- New Vision
- 26 August 2020
More than 35,000 people from over 20 villages are homeless after being evicted from about 9,300 acres of land in Kiryandongo, Uganada to pave way for large scale farming. Foreign investors dealing in agribusiness have been blamed for the ongoing land grabbing.
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