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Meru woos Chinese investors with free land, licences
- The Nation
- 21 November 2018
The Governor of Meru, Kenya has promised Chinese investors free land as he seeks to attract investment in agribusiness and the hospitality industry.
Tongaat seeks bids for 4 000ha sugar project
- The Chronicle
- 21 November 2018
Sugar giant, Tongaat Hullets, is seeking bids from companies or individuals with capacity to develop 4 000 hectares of virgin land to boost sugarcane production in the lowveld of Zimbabwe
Salala Rubber Company closes operations
- Daily Observer
- 21 November 2018
Operations at one of Liberia’s major exporters of rubber, the Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC), have been paralyzed for days, because the workers are on a go slow action demanding permanent employment.
Tax havens and Brazilian Amazon deforestation linked: study
- Mongabay
- 21 November 2018
Between 2000-2011, 68% of all investigated foreign capital to 9 top companies in soy and beef sectors in the Brazilian Amazon was transferred through tax havens. Soy and beef production cause major Amazon deforestation.
The colonial empire of Japan and the origins of the ProSavana agricultural project in Mozambique
- DW
- 20 November 2018
At the Triangular People's Conference on ProSavana in Tokyo, Japanese researcher Sayaka Funada-Classen explains how this agricultural megaproject in northern Mozambique follows Japan's historical model.
Liberia: Lawmaker eyes mechanised farming in Grand Bassa County
- FrontPageAfrica
- 19 November 2018
The Wee Statutory District Representative, Vicent Willie, told reporters that he and his partners from India and China have concluded talks to engage into large scale farming.
PHL, Papua New Guinea sign 5-year MOA on agri cooperation, including tie-up on rice production
- Eagle News
- 19 November 2018
The Philippines and PNG signed a five-year Memorandum of Agreement for greater cooperation on agriculture, including a tie-up on rice and grain production, as well as coconut and coffee production.
Hassad signs MoU with Rwanda Development Board
- The Peninsula
- 18 November 2018
Hassad Foods has signed an MoU with the Rwanda Development Board to commence cooperation between the two sides, and explore possible investment opportunities, notably at the 15,000 ha Gabiro Agro-processing Farm.
Singapore's Wilmar may invest in soybean production in Russia
- Reuters
- 18 November 2018
Singapore-listed commodity trader Wilmar International Ltd says it will start producing soybeans on 10,000 ha in Russia’s Far East, with possibility of eventually expanding to 600,000 ha
Civil society organizations’ statement on Myanmar Vacant, Fallow and Virgin land management
- Land in Our Hands
- 16 November 2018
The new land management law in Myanmar known as Vacant, Fallow and Virgin land management law designates 1/3 of total arable land for large-scale agribusiness that could make countless landless and imprisonment up to 2 years of trespassing their own land.
The Daewoo-Madagascar land grab, 10 years on
- GRAIN and the Collective for the Defence of Malagasy Lands
- 16 November 2018
On 18 November 2008, The Financial Times exposed a massive deal being negotiated between Daewoo Logistics and the government of Madagascar. Ten years later, what are we seeing?
Harvard spent $100 million on vineyards. Now it's fighting with the neighbors
- Bloomberg
- 15 November 2018
The fight over a vinyard in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains illustrates the risks that Harvard’s endowment once embraced with its unusual strategy of investing directly in massive agriculture projects around the world.