The $US866 billion financial services giant TIAA expects there will be at least $US100 billion invested in timberland operations and agriculture across the world in the next 10 to 20 years
Concerns over competing countries scrambling for resources such as farmland have decreased recently due to lower commodity and food prices, a World Bank official said.
- Thomson Reuters Foundation
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09 Mar 2016
The agribusiness cluster of the Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East Asean Growth Area (BIMP-Eaga) is targeting a total of 100,000 hectares for expansion of hybrid rice production area in the sub-economic region.
An Australian investment company has joined forces with a leading Chinese bidder for the iconic Kidman pastoral empire.
A new Open Access Special Issue in World Development based on our work on the changing role of China and Brazil in Africa’s agriculture is now available
International and Mozambican organisations and social movements allied in the No to ProSavana Campaign, denounce the current involvement of World Wildlife Fund in the ProSavana agribusiness programme.
- Não ao Prosavana
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07 Mar 2016
Pressure is mounting on Australia's superannuation funds to invest in agricultural land as investors protest about the industry's decision not to try and buy Australia's largest landholder S Kidman & Co.
- Financial Review
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07 Mar 2016
We, organisations of civil society and social movements allied in the No to ProSavana Campaign, denounce the current involvement of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in ProSavana.
- Não ao ProSavana
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07 Mar 2016
China's New Hope is accelerate overseas acquisitions in a bid to become a top supplier of meat and is raising $450 million through Hosen Capital, which counts Temasek and Mitsui as founding investors.
- Deal Street Asia
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06 Mar 2016
Land grabs for megaprojects such as mining, hydroelectric dams, monoculture agribusiness and petroleum extraction continue and even intensify.
On 3 February, President Santos signed the Zidres Law, which actually serves the interest of land grabbers in Colombia
- Contagio Radio
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04 Mar 2016
The Global convergence of struggles for land and water calls on President Koroma to end the criminalisation of MALOA activists resisting Socfin in Sierra Leone.