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Nigeria: Red card for land grabbers
- This Day
- 22 August 2017
Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has issued an edict warning all local chiefs and traditional rulers to desist from land grabbing or face dethronement.
China's COFCO Capital draws new state, private shareholders
- Reuters
- 22 August 2017
A group of state and private companies will invest a total of 6.9 billion yuan($1.04 billion) in COFCO Capital, a subsidiary of state-run agribusiness COFCO Group.
AreaOne Farms Fund III reaps harvest in $130 mln close
- PE Hub Network
- 21 August 2017
AreaOne Farms Fund III exceeded its target by signing up more limited partners, including three Canadian institutions — an endowment, an insurer and a pension fund
Iran to launch agricultural cultivation in Uruguay
- MNA
- 21 August 2017
Deputy Iranian agriculture minister, while pointing to imports of rice from Uruguay, said Iran had made an overseas farming plan for cultivating rice in the South American country.
China's 'richest chicken farmer' front of brood for Moy Park
- The Telegraph
- 19 August 2017
Liu Yonghao, chairman of China’s agrichemical business New Hope has joined a brood of bidders for a £1bn takeover of Northern Irish poultry giant Moy Park.
China's COFCO forms U.S. grain supply partnership with Growmark
- Reuters
- 19 August 2017
China's state-owned COFCO International Ltd (CIL) and U.S. farm cooperative Growmark Inc will partner in a deal that gives China more direct access to the food it imports.
Dangote turns to Nigerian agriculture
- African Business Magazine
- 18 August 2017
Nigeria’s biggest private sector company, the Dangote Group, has decided to turn its attention to agribusiness. Dangote will pay the state government N1.2bn ($3.7m) for 16,000 hectares of land and give it an equity stake in the company.
Indians win key land rights victory in Brazil’s Supreme Court
- Mongabay
- 17 August 2017
Brazil’s Supreme Court made two key decisions that strongly favored the country’s indigenous communities last Wednesday, against the claims of Mato Grosso state.
South Korea to build $10bln integrated agricultural city in Egypt
- Arab Finance
- 16 August 2017
Egypt and the Korea-Arab Society (KAS) signed a cooperation protocol to build a $10 billion integrated agricultural city in the North African country. The city will be stretched over an area of 300,000 feddans (126,000 ha) in the southeast part of the Qattara Depression.
Angola: Companies invest over USD 300 million in agro-industry
- All Africa
- 16 August 2017
A USD 310 million investment contract signed between private companies for Agro-industrial Complex of Capanda (PAC) in northern Malanje province, Angola. The Agro-industrial Park occupies an area of 411.000 hectares.
Global NGOs call for the release of Cambodian land rights activist Tep Vanny
- Global Voices
- 16 August 2017
65 civil society organizations (CSOs) and non-government organizations (NGOs) from across the world signed a unity statement urging Cambodian government to release land rights activist Tep Vanny, who has been in detention for the past 12 months.
Can big money fix a broken food system?
- Civil Eats
- 15 August 2017
Financial services firms are increasingly directing investor dollars into regenerative agriculture and other systemic food projects in the US, although not without risks