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China's Drex Food 'to invest in Belarus dairy farms'
- just-food
- 04 January 2018
China's Drex Food Group is said to be investing US$400m in dairy farms and milk processing facilities in Vitebsk Oblast in Belarus.
Ukraine’s ban on selling farmland is choking the economy
- Bloomberg
- 04 January 2018
Kiev keeps putting off land reforms, despite pressure from the IMF and investors.
Turkey: 780,000 hectares of land in Sudan to boost agricultural crop
- Daily Sabah
- 04 January 2018
Turkey-Sudan Business Council Chair Mehmet Ali Korkmaz indicated that 780,000 hectares of land leased by Turkey in Sudan would be open to Turkish investors and agriculture production, doubling Turkey's crop.
In early push into Papua, palm oil firms set stage for massive forest plunder
- Mongabay
- 03 January 2018
Nearly 200 square kilometers of forest have been cleared in Merauke, Indonesia's Papua region since 2014 for the plantation, with 10 square kilometers being opened up just since October.
Land conflict records in Indonesia throughout 2017
- ILC
- 29 December 2017
The raising number of the land conflicts highlighting 2017 records in Indonesia. More than six hundred thousand families living in more than five hundred acres of land were impacted. Plantation sector is still dominating agrarian conflict with two hundred and eight cases found.
Ontario Teachers’ acquires Australian Avocado Grower Jasper Farms
- OTPP
- 21 December 2017
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan announces the acquisition of Jasper Farms, Australia's second-largest avocado producer.
How much farmland is owned by foreign interests? It’s hard to know
- WPR
- 20 December 2017
Foreign ownership of farmland has shot up in Wisconsin and across the US but enforcement of the laws that regulate foreign ownership of farmland is lax.
Strong protest to the brutality of Wilmar subsidiary and security forces shooting the farmers in Central Kalimantan
- Pusaka
- 20 December 2017
Two farmers from Central Kalimantan, Indonesia were shot inside oil palm plantation of PT. Bumi Sawit Kencana (BSK), a subsidiary of Wilmar Group. They were shot by police officer assigned to secure the plantation area.
CARITAS Ghana holds two-day dialogue on Land Grabbing
- GNA
- 19 December 2017
Mr John Peter Amewu, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has lamented over the plight of peasant farmers who have lost their lands and thrown into abject poverty as a result of land grabbing.
OIO considers $105.5 mln buyout of Harvard dairy farms
- BusinessDesk
- 18 December 2017
New Zealand's Overseas Investment Office is considering the sale of Harvard University's 5,500-head dairy farms in the South Island to a Singapore-based investor.
Philippines tops year of land-rights killings
- Reuters
- 16 December 2017
“Alarmingly, global and regional developments that create conditions for greater land and resource grabbing continue to emerge and fuel social conflicts and unrest in rural areas.”
Chinese company to invest US$500 million in agriculture sector of Uzbekistan
- UzDaily
- 15 December 2017
Chinese company Wanbang, located in Henan province (China), will invest US$500 million into projects in agriculture sector of Uzbekistan. It is planned to supply 100,000 tonnes of mung been, produced in Uzbekistan, to China.