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The wrongdoings of the Doing Business Rankings and the corporate take-over of agriculture
- BWP
- 19 Mar 2018
Handing over natural resources like land to corporations and destroying small-scale agriculture will not reduce poverty.
Dutch university to help create agricultural park in Kazakhstan
- Times of Central Asia
- 19 Mar 2018
During the event investment opportunities and the potential of Kazakhstan in the agricultural sector were presented to 60 Dutch businessmen
Dubai-based Phoenix Group to invest in rose exporter Karuturi’s Kenyan biz
- VC Circle
- 19 Mar 2018
Dubai-based agriculture and food company Phoenix Group will invest in debt-laden Kenya operations of rose exporter Karuturi Global Ltd.
Alibaba-related company rolls out more NZ milk offerings to online savvy Chinese
- NZ Farmer
- 15 Mar 2018
A group of Chinese companies is rolling out more premium UHT milk and planning a new "fashion milk" from its 29 New Zealand farms, almost entirely for the Chinese market.
We are grateful that my predecessor took the right initiative – Obaseki
- Vanguard
- 14 Mar 2018
Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc, majority-owned by the Luxembourg-based Socfin group, has commissioned an 11,400 hectare oil palm plantation covering over 10 communities in Nigeria's Edo State.
Olam invests $1b in Nigeria’s agric sector
- Vanguard
- 14 Mar 2018
Olam's Vice President says its rice farm in Nigeria, with 3,000 hectares of land currently under cultivation, will be expanded to 10,000 hectares, making it the largest rice farm in Africa.
Alibaba founder Jack Ma visits New Zealand farm investment
- NZ Farmer
- 14 Mar 2018
China's richest man, Alibaba founder Jack Ma, slipped into New Zealand incognito last month. The founder of the world's largest retailer, which specialises in e-commerce, was in Waikato during Chinese New Year to check out his latest investment.
Madagascar: Rogue mayors, gangster politics
- East African
- 13 Mar 2018
Madagascar, still chafing from a major broil in 2009 after Ravalomanana made a land deal with Daewoo, is set to have a presidential election in November.
Global oil palm body rebukes GVL over Land Grab in Sinoe, Grand Kru
- FrontPageAfrica
- 13 Mar 2018
RSPO rebukes Golden Veroleum for land grab in communities in Liberia, booking the company for not seeking the consent of communities and coercing locals into signing MOUs.
PNG land grabbers could potentially face International Criminal Court
- ActNow
- 13 Mar 2018
Report finds that the PNG government distributed over 5 million ha of customary land to private companies for large-scale agricultural development, without the free, prior and informed consent of all affected landowners.
Uganda allots 27 square miles of land to UAE investor
- Africa Business
- 12 Mar 2018
President Museveni has promised to allot 7,000 hectares of land in Mbarara District to one of the UAE’s largest dairy companies, Al Rawabi, to set up model farm in the country. The investor and CEO, Dr Ahmad Eltigani Al Mansouri, will bring in new technology to fertilise cows that produce high milk, according to a press release from State House.
UFF-NAIC Agriculture Fund acquires integrated farm
- Economic Confidential
- 12 Mar 2018
The Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority buys a 3,500 ha farm in Nasarawa State through a joint venture with UFF Agri Investment, a South African company owned by Old Mutual Property