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Land dispute settled in Koh Kong
- Khmer Times
- 02 July 2018
Each family agreed, with mixed feelings, to accept two hectares of land and $3,000 to end the years-long land dispute between villagers and sugar companies
UAE-based Al Dahra aquires Agricola Braila, the largest agricultural producer in Romania
- Business Reveiw
- 02 July 2018
Investment Fund Al Dahra Holding took over Agricola Braila, the largest agricultural producer in Romania, in a deal estimated at over EUR 230 million euros and involving some 57,000 ha.
UK tops list of foreign investors in Australian agricultural land
- Grain Central
- 02 July 2018
The UK remains the largest foreign owner of Australian farmland, followed by China and the US, according to the Foreign Investment Review Board 2016–17 Annual Report.
Dutch-based banks continue to finance deforestation and land-grabbing
- Milieudefensie
- 02 July 2018
Dutch-based ABN AMRO, ING and Rabobank are structurally involved in scandals concerning destruction of rainforest and land-grabbing in Asia and Africa. Milieudefensie is calling on the banks to cease financing the industrial palm oil sector.
L'Etat ivoirien décide la cession de 30% de ses parts dans Palmafrique
- Commodafrica
- 29 June 2018
Les parts de l’entreprise qui possède 3 sites d’exploitations agro-industrielles reparties sur 7 500 ha seront cedées au groupe Financial BC
Overseas investors pull out of farm purchases after government clampdown
- Stuff
- 29 June 2018
The number of foreign buyers pulling out of New Zealand farm purchases has more than doubled since the Government tightened rules for overseas investment.
Danish Ingleby becomes fourth largest farmland owner in Romania
- Romania Insider
- 29 June 2018
Ingleby group is owned by the Swedish billionaire family of Hans Rausing. The group exploited over 100,500 ha of land worldwide, of which 81,500 ha farmland and 7,261 ha forest.
Hassad to invest $500mn in Sudan's food sector
- Gulf Times
- 28 June 2018
Hassad, a subsidiary of Qatar Investment Authority, announces its intention to invest $500mn in the Sudanese agricultural and food sectors over the next three years.
International financial capital and the Brazilian land market
- LatAm Perspectives
- 28 June 2018
Brazilian agribusiness corporations have created partnerships with pension funds in the United States, Canada, and Europe for the “outsourcing” of land operations that are analogous to the international outsourcing of labor.
Dutch pension fund divests from Posco Daewoo over deforestation in Indonesia
- Mongabay
- 26 June 2018
APB, the Dutch pension fund for government and education employees, announced it would divest 300,000 euros from Posco Daewoo over deforestation in Indonesian Papua.
Okomu earmarks N80 million for HSE, decries selective attacks on the coy over RSPO
- Nigerian Observer
- 26 June 2018
Okomu's Managing Director surprised about attacks directed at the company over its RSPO certification, saying it would be the first palm oil company in Nigeria to be so certified by October this year.
VGGT: what potential to engage?
- Fern
- 26 June 2018
This rapid scoping of the FAO Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure sought views on the usefulness of the guidelines for promoting forest tenure reform in support of secure community land rights.