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Algeria cancels plan to offer farmland to foreign investors-official
- Reuters
- 22 May 2018
The president of the republic is said to have intervened to cancel the plan aimed at opening up farmland concessions to foreign investors.
Land Ministry sending work group to Koh Kong
- Phnom Penh Post
- 21 May 2018
Around 486 local families who have been embroiled in land disputes with Koh Kong Sugar Industry and Koh Kong Plantation have requested intervention from Cambodia Ministry of Land Management.
Proposed Chinese agriculture project, ‘very troubling’
- Observor
- 20 May 2018
Aspiring politician Gameal Joyce says he does not understand why 4,000 acres of land in Antigua and Barbuda are required for the proposed agricultural development project with China.
“There isn’t any”: Tanzania’s land myth and the brave New Alliance
- African Arguments
- 18 May 2018
Tanzania claims to have abundant unused land to attract investors. But as tensions over resources grow, farmers, pastoralists and experts beg to differ.
Is Pakistani agriculture ready for CPEC?
- The Diplomat
- 18 May 2018
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor could see Chinese produce grown in Pakistan exported to Chinese markets, with little benefit whatsoever to Pakistan’s economy.
Nicoletti farming business hits the market
- The Land
- 16 May 2018
“I’ve got strong interest from Canada, the United Kingdom and Dubai and they want to come out now and have a look around," says the owner of the largest semi-contiguous cropping aggregation to be offered in Australia’s history.
Chinese entrepreneurs to invest in grapefruit production in Mozambique
- Macauhub
- 16 May 2018
A group of Chinese businesspeople under the umbrella of the Jiangsu Huaxi Group consortium plan to invest US$6.2 million in a 2,000 ha grapefruit agricultural project in the central Mozambican province of Manica.
The NCH agribusiness story
- 16 May 2018
The collapse of the Soviet Union opened up incredible opportunities for investment in farmland in the Ukraine and Russia, says NCH Capital in this promotional video.
Liberia: River Cess community rejecting oil palm plantation
- FrontPageAfrica
- 15 May 2018
Residents of Kahnkaye Chiefdom in Nyorwein District have selected new chiefs to lead a rejection of Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) from expanding its plantation on their land.
Investment Corporation of Dubai-created a partnership with farming company Optimum Agriculture to invest into the Agro business sector
- PR Newswire
- 15 May 2018
Once one of Florida's iconic ranching dynasties has sold the balance of its Osceola County land holdings to a global agribusiness firm Optimum Agriculture and the government of Dubai for $136.5 million.
Terra Firma seeks premium for "Project Ribeye" Australian farm sale
- Reuters
- 15 May 2018
The hefty mark-up for the 5.5 million ha property could leave foreign bidders in the box seat, testing the government's appetite for foreign ownership less than two years after it rejected China-led bids for an energy grid and agricultural company. energy grid and agricultural company.
Agric Minister seeks investment in avocado
- Business Ghana
- 14 May 2018
Ghana's Minister of Food and Agriculture tells Israeli businessmen that his government has set aside large hectares of land for the cultivation of avocados and urges them to take advantage of the opportunity.