A new report uncovers how international pension funds, foreign investments and institutions are tearing down any future for rural communities in Northeastern Brazil.
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
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.
- Business Reveiw
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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.
- Grain Central
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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.
- Milieudefensie
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02 July 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
- Commodafrica
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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.
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.
- Romania Insider
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29 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.
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.
- LatAm Perspectives
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28 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'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.
- Nigerian Observer
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26 June 2018