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Harvard quietly amasses California vineyards—and the water underneath
- WSJ
- 10 December 2018
Making a bet on climate change, the university’s $39 billion endowment has been snapping up farmland and the related water rights
Brazil could open up 43 mln hectares of new agricultural land - SLC
- Reuters
- 07 December 2018
Aurélio Pavinato, CEO of SLC Agrícola SA, says the potential to expand soybean, grains and sugarcane plantations on 43 million hectares in the Cerrado region will "demand heavy investments".
How not to conduct large-scale agricultural investments: Lessons from the Malen/Socfin Land dispute in Sierra Leone
- Standard Times
- 06 December 2018
The SOCFIN land acquisition in Malen Chiefdom reads like a collusion between the government and the investor—an alliance of the powerful and wealthy—to strip a community of their most valuable resource.
The SABL land grab: Papua New Guinea’s ongoing human rights scandal
- War on Want
- 06 December 2018
New report shines a spotlight on the ongoing resistance to land grabs and provides recommendations calling for immediate action, not only by the PNG government but also various UN bodies and national governments.
Warakirri's new $100m fund seeks only high-value farms
- AFR
- 03 December 2018
Warakirri says it is already managing discrete agricultural investments for super funds, but this new fund is being set up in response to demand from private family offices, high-net-worth and not-for-profit community
The biggest investment opportunity you've probably never heard of
- Forbes
- 03 December 2018
"I think we are in the Goldilocks period of this opportunity right now where the market isn’t too thin or too saturated, but just right," says Artem Milinchuk founder of farmland investment company FarmTogether.
New Saudi Investments in Sudan’s agriculture
- Aawsat
- 03 December 2018
Saudi Arabia and Sudan have launched a new agricultural partnership as part of the implementation of the Arab food security initiative
As palm plantations grab land, Mayan women organize
- Sierra
- 02 December 2018
In Petén, Guatemala, food scarcity is on the rise as arable land shrinks because of land grabbing for oil palm plantations
Tokyo declaration: “We reiterate the rejection of ProSavana and MATOPIBA and defend the food sovereignty of the peoples”
- Na?o ao ProSAVANA
- 30 November 2018
Declaration by the peasants’ movements and civil society organizations from Mozambique, Brazil and Japan at the 4th Triangular Peoples’ Conference against ProSAVANA in Tokyo
Karan Beef cashes in on exponential growth in demand from China
- Bloomberg
- 29 November 2018
South Africa's Karan family accepted a R5.2bn offer for its cattle feedlot from a South African pension fund over a R6bn offer from Chinese investors who wanted to export all of its meat
The secret deal to destroy paradise
- The Gecko Project
- 28 November 2018
In December 2012, on the sidelines of Islamic business forum in Malaysia, a man made a bold claim said his company, Menara Group held the rights to 4,000 square kilometres of rainforest for oil palm plantations in Indonesia. The basis of his claim was Tanah Merah project in Boven Digoel, Papua.
Turkish agriculture sector to begin funding in Sudan
- Infosurhoy
- 28 November 2018
The new office of the Turkish and Sudanese joint agricultural and livestock company will commence works on a 12,500 ha pilot farm, as part of an agreement in which 780,000 ha in Sudan have been earmarked for Turkish companies.