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Sand heavier than soil: UAE venture on agricultural land in Serbia
- EWB
- 29 October 2018
Serbian farmlands that were recently cultivated, used and improved by 80 farming families are now being leased to UAE-based companies.
Private sector to drive Command Agriculture
- Bulawayo
- 29 October 2018
In order to facilitate private sector investment in agriculture, the Government of Zimbabwe will expedite issuance of bankable 99 year leases to allow farmers access to funding from financial institutions.
UAE and Uganda to establish one of the world's first agricultural free zones
- The National
- 29 October 2018
The 2,500 hectare free zone will allow private companies from the UAE to invest in agricultural production and development in Uganda.
Decades of dispossession: indigenous Brazilians battle to get back land
- Reuters
- 25 October 2018
Decades-long legal battle over ancestral land had forced indigenous people to occupy other areas to make a living. Their loss of land has largely been driven by cattle, about 2.7 million people live in Mato Grosso do Sul, as do 22 million cattle, according to FAMASUL, a farmers' association in the state.
Position statement: Agro-industries
- Standard Chartered
- 25 October 2018
Effective March 2019 Standard Chartered has new rules related to its financial services activity in the area of agribsuiness
Grainrail: ‘2nd revolution in Brazilian agribusiness’ and Amazon threat
- Mongabay
- 23 October 2018
A controversial new railroad, Ferrogrão (Grainrail), is poised to penetrate the Brazilian Amazon, if industrial agribusiness gets its way.
Sierra Leone: Investors and landowners reach consensus on land governance
- Awoko
- 23 October 2018
The peace agreement signed between Makpele chiefdom and Natural Habitat was as a result of concern over land grabbing where large tracts of land in the chiefdom are leased to the commercial investor by a small fraction of community stakeholders.
Gunn Agri acquires the 484,000-hectare Abingdon Downs
- Global AgInvesting
- 23 October 2018
Farm and asset management company Gunn Agri announced it has finalized the acquisition of Abingdon Downs, a 484,000-hectare breeding property in Queensland, Australia from the Keough Cattle Company, for an undisclosed sum.
Environmentalists accuse ING of 'greenwashing' at Brussels demo
- Euronews
- 23 October 2018
One of the more specific projects targeted by the activists involves the palm oil company SocFin, which is active in Sierra Leone.
PIC buys into Africa's biggest feedlot in $365 million deal
- Bloomberg
- 23 October 2018
The South African state-workers’ pension funds and black-economic empowerment group Pelo Agricultural Ventures take a majority stake in Karan Beef (Pty) Ltd., owner of the continent’s largest cattle feedlot.
ING finances controversial palm oil companies in spite of sustainability policy
- FIAN et al
- 23 October 2018
As ING launches its sustainable investment campaign, a civil society coalition from Belgium and the Netherlands calls upon ING to clean up their act. ING’s financing of controversial palm oil companies such as SOCFIN is far from sustainable.
Burkina Faso adopts a new agricultural investment code: How does it contribute to sustainable development?
- IISD
- 22 October 2018
The newly adopted agricultural investment code aims to develop resilient and productive rural sectors, while reinforcing a market-oriented approach based on the principles of sustainable development.