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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
International investment blamed for violence and oppression in Sarawak
- Mongabay
- 15 August 2017
NGOs in Sarawak and around the world report failures by the Sarawak government to uphold indigenous land rights, and failures by international banks and investors to ensure their investments are conflict-free.
Samsung: get out of conflict palm oil!
- SumOfUs
- 15 August 2017
Samsung subsidiary announced last week that it will be forming a joint venture with Korean-Indonesian agribusiness company, Korindo which was recently exposed for burning and clearing tens of thousands of hectares of Indonesia's rainforest for palm oil and timber production.
Chinese livestock firm taps up Southeast Asia
- Global meat news
- 14 August 2017
A leading Chinese livestock and meat processing firm wants to tap supply of cattle from south-east Asia, with a cattle quarantine and slaughtering hub planned for the city of Ruili, on the border with Myanmar.
French company relocates investment plant over land dispute
- Addis Fortune
- 12 August 2017
The Oromia Investment Commission faces a challenge in relocating 600 farmers from the 335ha of land leased to European Food and Cattle Plc in East Shoa, Ethiopia.