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Chinese entrepreneurs visit Tonga
- Matangi
- 31 August 2015
The Chinese delegation was interested in setting up businesses in Tonga that could process cassava into starch as well cultivating mushrooms for export.
Kingfisher locks in gains as funding hits triggers
- Pensions Expert
- 31 August 2015
Last year trustees added a global farmland fund managed by Insight Investment Management to the Kingfisher pension scheme.
Large-scale agricultural investments threaten right to food of small-scale farmers in Tanzania’s Southern Highlands
- 31 August 2015
New report published by Misereor is based upon first-hand interviews with farmers in four villages of Tanzania’s Southern Highlands utilizing a right to food framework.
Ag pays off for super-backed fund
- Financial Review
- 31 August 2015
The Sustainable Agriculture Fund, backed by Australia's biggest superannuation funds, has delivered a $4.7 million full year profit and recorded a small rise in the value of its rural property holdings
Les conflits fonciers en Afrique, une bombe à retardement ?
- RFI
- 31 August 2015
Les litiges concernant les terres, dans les zones rurales ou urbaines sont-ils de plus en plus nombreux ? Quels sont les recours pour les citoyens qui s’estiment spoliés ?
Pengxin may buy 2 cattle farms in Australia
- China Daily
- 29 August 2015
Chinese conglomerate Shanghai Pengxin Group Co Ltd is set to become the largest farmland owner in Australia if it is successful in the acquisitions of two cattle farms for A$1 billion ($720 million).
Iran launches first overseas farming plan
- Press TV
- 28 August 2015
Iran has launched agricultural cultivation in Kazakhstan, marking its first farmland investment overseas as the Middle Eastern country seeks to secure food supplies amid a lingering drought.
Implementation of extra-territorial culture in Ukraine
- ILNA
- 28 August 2015
Iranian institute confirms that Ministry of Agriculture is responsible for overseas farm production programme
Understanding land grabbing, land rights in the 21st Century
- Focus
- 28 August 2015
It is critical for farmers and advocates of land rights as well as the general public to understand how and why land grabbing is happening to make a more effective, strategic campaigning to address and stop it.
Investors are grabbing a Japan-size chunk of the developing world for food and water
- Take Part
- 28 August 2015
Activists tracking these deals say rich countries are buying up land—93 million acres—and displacing local people and wildlife.
PNG: Court rulings confirm SABLs null and void
- Act Now
- 27 August 2015
Since 2007 there have been five reported legal cases in which the validity of Special Agriculture Business Leases (SABL) has been challenged through the Courts, all leases was declared null and void.
Japan's Mitsubishi buys 20% stake in Olam
- Reuters
- 27 August 2015
Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation has bought a 20 per cent stake in global-agri business Olam through two transactions as the companies launch a strategic partnership.