This is the "Executive Version" of the 2015 loan agreement between a group of European development banks and the DR Congo oil palm plantation company Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC)
- DEG et al.
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02 December 2015
China aims to build a number of large-scale agricultural groups that it will encourage to step out of the country through establishing joint ventures with foreign firms or conducting mergers and acquisitions.
The expansion of oil palm plantations around the tropical world presents a fierce assault on the climate in the name of corporate profits.
Wanjin Agricultural Development Company operates 10 farms in a venture with Zimbabwe's Ministry of Defense with a total land size exceeding 10,000 ha and it hopes to have acquired 40,000 ha more by 2018.
Vietnamese company Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group has invested in Cambodia so that it could have large areas for mechanized and automatic dairy farming.
A public meeting by the Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles, Paris, December 10.
Study shows that the concentration of agricultural land in Europe constitutes a major threat to sustainable small- and medium-scale agriculture and young farmers
- Maria Heubuch
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30 November 2015
African Agriculture Fund Policy Statement Regarding Tax and Transparency
Canadian oil palm company operating oil palm plantations and arable farming operations in the DRC announces another $5 million placement by the African Agriculture Fund, which is funded by several development finance institutes.
- Marketwired
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27 November 2015
Trans-Oil, Moldova’s largest agribusiness company, will take over the local company Racova, active in agriculture and food industry, in a transaction estimated at over USD 100 million, which should be completed by December.
- Romania Insider
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26 November 2015
An agricultural investment advisor predicts international companies wanting to buy Australian farmland could be scared off by changes to the threshold for scrutiny by the Foreign Investment Review Board.
One Thousand & One Voices (1K1V) — a US-based private capital fund backed by some influential family investors — is on the hunt for opportunities in the sub-Saharan Africa agricultural sector.
- Business Day
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25 November 2015