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United Cacao responds to bid to remove company from London Stock Exchange
- Mongabay
- 13 May 2016
The company defends its Peruvian plantations amid uproar over alleged environmental and social impacts.
Namibia: Russian landlord in Panama Papers
- Namibian
- 13 May 2016
Russian billionaire Rashid Sardarov, who bought large tracts of land in Namibia, is among the long−serving clients of Mossack Fonseca, a disgraced law firm known for aiding the rich to hide their wealth in tax havens
Kazakh government invites opponents to discuss land reform
- Reuters
- 12 May 2016
Kazakhstan's government, facing a wave of unrest over farmland privatisation plans, invited some opponents of the reform to join a commission set up on Thursday to review it.
Companies run by ex-cricketer Phil Edmonds 'paid bribes to officials'
- Guardian
- 12 May 2016
Companies co-founded and run by Phil Edmonds, founder of leading African farmland investor Agriterra, paid “bribes” to African officials and have bought assets owned by secretive offshore structures, a campaign group has claimed.
Insight Investments taps head of farmland team
- P&I
- 10 May 2016
Tom McKeon was most recently CEO of Hassad Australia, the Doha-based Qatar Investment Authority’s food and agribusiness subsidiary.
Pack your bags to cash in on China’s dairy demand
- Farm Weekly
- 10 May 2016
In partnership with Indonesian agribusiness Japfa and Cargill’s Black River, AustAsia has built five free stall dairy farms in the province of Shandong, plus another in Inner Mongolia, to milk 30,000 Holsteins in total.
New Zealand: Overseas Investment Office unsure who owns Onetai Station
- Stuff
- 10 May 2016
The 1317 hectare farm was sold in 2014, on the advice of the Overseas Investment Office, to Ceol & Muir, a company established with the help of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.
On Jokowi’s announcement to ban new oil palm permits, AGRA and APC reaffirm call to stop oil palm plantations
- APC
- 10 May 2016
Aliansi Gerakan Reforma Agraria and Asian Peasant Coalition welcome Indonesian President's announcement to ban new oil palm permits but reiterate call to stop oil palm plantations.
Karuturi boss laughs off sale of his flower farm, calls the business ‘air’
- Standard
- 10 May 2016
Ramakrishna Karuturi has mocked plans to sell off his Naivasha-based flower farm, saying the liquidation procedure will not affect his ownership of the land, which is held through separate subsidiaries.
China and Brazil in African agriculture
- World Development
- 10 May 2016
Special issue of World Development suggests a key feature of Brazilian and Chinese engagements in African agriculture is the role of state–business relations in shaping and steering development, suggesting new forms of developmentalism.
Philippines; Duterte open to lifting cap on foreign ownership of firms
- Rappler
- 09 May 2016
While Duterte intends to liberalize the entry of foreign investments in the country, he said he does not want to touch the constitutional limit on foreign land ownership.
Unprecedented deforestation in old Herakles plantation, now under new management
- Mongabay
- 09 May 2016
The development of an oil palm plantation, which was thought to have been pretty much abandoned by the American company that ran it, has resumed in the Southwest Region of Cameroon, according to satellite data released by Greenpeace.