During President Rodrigo Duterte's visit to Malaysia, Malaysian businessmen expressed their interest in investing in palm oil plantations in the Philippines.
The portfolio, once considered a crown jewel in the endowment, is vast with assets including timberland plantations in Central and South America, a dairy farm in New Zealand, and vineyards in California.
The Nigerian government extended an invitation to Russians to take advantage of the country’s arable land to produce and export agricultural products.
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Development Company have confirmed plans for their joint investment in two of Russia's largest agricultural and food companies.
Lagos Food Security Summit and Exhibition was organized to bring together stakeholders in the Agricultural sector to proffer solutions to the challenges militating against the achievement of food security
Despite the numerous irregularities denounced by civil society, the governments of Mozambique, Brazil and Japan are pushing through the process of “redesigning” the Master Plan in the Nacala Corridor.
Malaysian palm oil giant Sime Darby has been called out by a representative of indigenous communities for land-grabbing in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province during the 14th annual Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil meeting, which is taking place in Bangkok.
BTG Pactual undermined the case for investing in Brazilian farmland, saying it offered "negative returns" thanks to blows from lower crop prices, and the South American country's high interest costs.
Meeting notes how land conflicts as a result of agribusiness expansion are proliferating throughout SE Asia and urges pause in the hand out of licenses while community and indigenous peoples’ land rights are secured.
In its letter to the RSPO, Plantaciones de Pucallpa claims to have divested all its palm oil estates, land, related activities and equipment and PdP has no involvement in the Palm oil industry.
PT Nabire Baru plantation encroaches on the customary lands of the Yerisiam Gua peoples, who have written letters and protested peacefully against the project for the last four years. In 2012, the company was reported to have cleared 32,000 hectares in Nabire province.
Olam has started developing a second 13,500 ha fully irrigated paddy farm on a greenfield site in Ondorie, Nasarawa State.
