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AgCAP sells first tranche of sustainable agriculture fund assets
- GAI
- 25 September 2017
TIAA Global Agriculture Properties has acquired 10 of the 17 properties making up the SAF portfolio totaling 16,000 hectares across New South Wales, and Victoria.
Police block peaceful action by women affected by SOCFIN oil palm plantation in Sierra Leone
- MALOA et al
- 25 September 2017
A caravan of 200 women was stopped by police on their way to Pujehun to urge local authorities to take action against the Luxembourg-based oil palm plantation company SOCFIN for grabbing their lands and committing other related human rights abuses.
“ATAMA Plantations is today a source of discontent for local communities and the entire nation”
- WRM
- 24 September 2017
WRM talked with Nina Cynthia Kiyindou Yombo at the Congolese Observatory for Human Rights about what she saw during her visit to the ATAMA operations in the Sangha region of the Republic of Congo.
SOCFIN’s plantations in Africa: Many places of violence and destruction
- WRM
- 24 September 2017
There is a large gap between SOCFIN's “responsible management” policy and the reality of violence and destruction around its plantations, where, with the complicity of national governments, the company attempts to suppress people’s resistance.
Feronia in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Harassment, violence and oppression
- RIAO
- 24 September 2017
Oil palm plantations managed by the Canadian-based agribusiness company FERONIA Inc have been opposed by local residents ever since they were established
Farmland investments are finding their way to international arbitration
- IISD
- 23 September 2017
Swedish investor EcoDevelopment registered a claim at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes against the Tanzanian government on September 11, 2017 for revoking a land title amid concerns over the impact on local communities and a wildlife sanctuary.
Sustainable investments are not always what they seem
- SSIR
- 22 September 2017
Experience in Mozambique with agribusiness investments shows Investors need to better educate themselves about the local context in which their funds are deployed.
Game over for Flora EcoPower
- Africa Intelligence
- 22 September 2017
One final straw for the German company which owns 70,000 ha of land in Oromia has put a definitive end to its Ethiopian adventure.
Infographic: Economic land concession sugarcane plantation and sugar industry, Oddar Meanchey Province, Cambodia
- The Mekong Butterfly
- 21 September 2017
Around 2006, Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation., Ltd. One of major sugarcane and sugar companies in Thailand began to expand their production base to neighboring countries. This infograhpic solely looks at the case of sugarcane plantation investment in Oddar Meanchey, Cambodia.
Karuturi demands compensation from Ethiopia for failed land deal
- Bloomberg
- 21 September 2017
Karuturi Global Ltd., an Indian flower grower, demanded compensation from the Ethiopian government for a series of failed land deals as it prepares to exit the Horn of Africa nation.
Bindaree’s Chinese investors plan to develop northern WA cattle assets
- Beef Central
- 20 September 2017
Hong Kong based investors who recently took a 51 percent stake in northern NSW export beef processor, Bindaree Beef have plans to further develop their Western Australian grazing property investments, purchased in April last year.
COFCO goes global to grow grain security
- China Daily
- 20 September 2017
COFCO Corp, China biggest agricultural products supplier by revenue, plans by 2020 to see 60 percent of its revenue contributed by overseas markets and control up to 50 million metric tons of foreign grain resources.