The company, which has most recently bulldozed the local community's sago palms, is a subsidiary of RSPO member Goodhope Asia Holdings, registered in Singapore and owned by Carson Cumberbatch PLC of Sri Lanka.
The Overseas Investment Office has re-opened its review of the sale of Taranaki farmland to foreign investors after revelations the Argentinian owners were prosecuted for pollution and discharging toxic chemicals into a river in Buenos Aires.
The Panamanian trust set up by Mossack Fonseca to buy the Onetai station in Taranaki, New Zealand has a Uruguayan connection that may not have brought to the attention of ministers who approved its sale.
Treasurer Scott Morrison was accused of playing politics with foreign investment after he decided to stop a Chinese-led consortium buying Australia's biggest private landholder, buying S.Kidman and Co.
The recent swell of enthusiasm for studying large-scale land acquisitions reveals something deeper about how researchers, journalists, and social activists continue to perceive societies south of the Sahara.
28/04/2016: In the land conflict between Sanamadougou and Sahou (Mali) and the company M3-SA a solution has come into reach +++ Afrique-Europe-Interact still calls upon the African Bank of Development to seek exchange with M3-SA +++ Also the Malian government and the civil society have to contribute to a fair solution
Land clearance and water consumption by the massive Rui Feng sugarcane plantation has been blamed to worsen drought in Preah Vihear village, Cambodia.
A group of 24 deputies, most of them from the National Liberal Party (PNL) have initiated a law draft that aims to impose stricter conditions for foreigners who want to buy farmland in Romania.
Several other title deeds for farms with total 549,000 hectares in Morogoro region have been forwarded to the Ministry of Lands and Human Settlement Developments for revocation.
Denmark’s AP Pension is expanding its exposure to agricultural land in a proposed new deal to buy farmland in eastern Romania and lease it back to the Danish company operating farms on the land.
Agri All Africa client-farmers convened to discuss the implementation of agriculture investments in priority destinations: Zambia, Nigeria, DRC, Angola, Mozambique, Malawi, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Namibia and Sudan.
Protest in Kazakh city of Atyrau comes as public fears grow that changes in the Land Code could allow sales of land to foreigners, though the government has said this will not happen.
