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Ghana: Brazil Agrobusiness Group to increase rice production
- GNA
- 03 November 2017
The Brazil Agrobusiness Group, a company focused exclusively on rice cultivation at Kpenu, near Dabala in the South Tongu District is to double production by 2020.
Nigeria: Agric, alternative to crude oil: The Edo example
- Independent
- 03 November 2017
The Edo State governor says one of the companies that has signed up to invest in the state is Tolaram, a huge conglomerate from Singapore that plans to invest $50 million in oil palm and cassava cultivation.
Namibia: Russian billionaire seeks right to buy land
- Namibian
- 03 November 2017
Russian billionaire Rashid Sardarov is seeking the right to buy three farms to extend his game ranch to 46,000 ha, and at the same time is offering to donate N$24 million to the land reform ministry.
Threats on Feronia’s plantations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
- RIAO-RDC
- 02 November 2017
Communiqué from RIAO DRC denouncing recent threats and intimidation against communities and NGOs in the oil palm plantation areas of the Canadian company Feronia.
Sudan's crop opportunities could be Egypt's boon or bust
- AL-Monitor
- 02 November 2017
Sudan wants to expand agricultural production and investments, which could benefit it as well as Egypt, but Cairo worries that such a development might threaten its supply of the Nile's water.
The Agrifood Atlas: how corporations are tightening their stranglehold on people's food
- FOE Europe
- 01 November 2017
New corporations have emerged that buy or lease vast areas of farmland in developing countries. They grow monocultures to feed the industrialized agriculture.
PNG farmers fight back against foreign land grab
- ActNow
- 31 October 2017
Farmers and communities from across Papua New Guinea have engaged in civil disobedience, protests and lawsuits to reclaim their land, even in the face of violence and aggression.
Hewitt Cattle Australia secure stake in Arcadian Organic
- NQR
- 31 October 2017
The deal will also see the company, backed by Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board, acquire two certified organic properties owned by Arcadian covering over 30,000 ha.
Vietnam’s TH Group seeks Russia sites for $1.7 bln dairy investment
- Asia Times
- 31 October 2017
The company has plans to build three livestock complexes with a total head of 15,000 cattle and a milk processing plant with a capacity of up to 60,000 metric tons of dairy products per year.
‘Malen Chiefdom is under siege to SOCFIN
- Concord Times
- 27 October 2017
Malen Affected Land Owners and Users Association leader says the entire chiefdom is under siege to SOCFIN, a Belgian company that has invested in oil palm plantations in southern Sierra Leone.
Zambian families evicted from commercial farms
- CAJ News
- 26 October 2017
Dozens of rural families have been left with no shelter or source of livelihoods following mass acquisition of land by commercial farmers.
Dongbu insurance arms to commit $40 mn to farmland/timberland fund
- Korean Investors
- 26 October 2017
South Korea’s Dongbu Group will commit 45 billion won ($40 million) to a timberland and farmland fund managed by Boston-based Hancock Natural Resource Group..