A South African company says it has filed for arbitration against Democratic Republic of Congo’s government, seeking to recover nearly $20 million it says it is owed from a failed agriculture project.
Communities in Papua New Guinea's West Pomio District will suffer more than $US73 million worth of damage due to Special Agriculture Business Leases, according to a local advocacy group Act Now.
Report finds that Golden Veroleum Liberia violated the rights of communities to the customary ownership of their lands, violated the Liberian laws and international standards, and even breached its own policies.
- FrontPageAfrica
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03 July 2018
A new report uncovers how international pension funds, foreign investments and institutions are tearing down any future for rural communities in Northeastern Brazil.
Each family agreed, with mixed feelings, to accept two hectares of land and $3,000 to end the years-long land dispute between villagers and sugar companies
Investment Fund Al Dahra Holding took over Agricola Braila, the largest agricultural producer in Romania, in a deal estimated at over EUR 230 million euros and involving some 57,000 ha.
- Business Reveiw
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02 July 2018
The UK remains the largest foreign owner of Australian farmland, followed by China and the US, according to the Foreign Investment Review Board 2016–17 Annual Report.
- Grain Central
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02 July 2018
Dutch-based ABN AMRO, ING and Rabobank are structurally involved in scandals concerning destruction of rainforest and land-grabbing in Asia and Africa. Milieudefensie is calling on the banks to cease financing the industrial palm oil sector.
- Milieudefensie
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02 July 2018
Les parts de l’entreprise qui possède 3 sites d’exploitations agro-industrielles reparties sur 7 500 ha seront cedées au groupe Financial BC
- Commodafrica
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29 June 2018
The number of foreign buyers pulling out of New Zealand farm purchases has more than doubled since the Government tightened rules for overseas investment.
Ingleby group is owned by the Swedish billionaire family of Hans Rausing. The group exploited over 100,500 ha of land worldwide, of which 81,500 ha farmland and 7,261 ha forest.
- Romania Insider
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29 June 2018
Hassad, a subsidiary of Qatar Investment Authority, announces its intention to invest $500mn in the Sudanese agricultural and food sectors over the next three years.