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Triangular cooperation for agricultural development of the tropcial savannah of Mozambique
- JCC
- 28 July 2015
Presentation made by the 3rd Joint Coordination Committee of ProSAVANA on December 3, 2012 in Nampula
Mozambique: Foreign investment in agri-business but not farming?
- Club of Mozambique
- 28 July 2015
No new plantation has succeeded since independence. No new plantation investment has yet been profitable
Fertiliser firm to boost farmers productivity
- Daily News
- 28 July 2015
Yara and Unilever are partnering on a smallholder contract growing programme, connected to Unilever's 3,253 hectare tea plantation in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor (SAGCOT).
Australia: Senator Penny Wong slams Coalition agricultural foreign investment policy
- Weekly Times
- 28 July 2015
Labor’s trade spokeswoman Senator Penny Wong has slammed the Coalition’s agricultural foreign investment policy at today’s premier grains industry event.
« Danger pour l’agriculture familiale » (CES européen)
- France Agricole
- 28 July 2015
Le Comité économique et social européen (CES européen) voit un risque sérieux dans la forte concentration des terres aux mains de grands investisseurs non agricoles et de grandes entreprises agricoles.
With farms, fruit and feed, Vietnam's tycoons explore agribusiness ventures
- Reuters
- 28 July 2015
Some of Vietnam top firms are carving out opportunities in its $37 billion agriculture and seafood sector and looking to expand overseas, helped by free trade pacts.
The palm oil company at the centre of a bitter land rights struggle in Cameroon
- Guardian
- 27 July 2015
Local residents complain expansion plans by Socapalm, Cameroon’s biggest palm oil company, will take over land that belongs to them
Neoliberal Ebola: palm oil, logging, land grabs, ecological havoc and disease
- The Ecologist
- 27 July 2015
The only long term solution to this terrible disease may lie in forest conservation, the restoration of agroecological farming systems, and the exclusion of agribusiness investment.
Uganda's farmers battle palm oil Goliaths for land
- AFP
- 25 July 2015
As land grabs by firms linked to multinationals drive small-holder farmers out of business, a group behind a February bid for compensation by 100 farmers says rights violations and environmental degradation are also at stake.
DPM Somsavat visited a rice production project in Khammuan province
- LNTV
- 24 July 2015
Beidahuang Group is investing US$5 million in the project on a 600 hectare concession located at Nakatang village in Yommalath district of Khammuan province, Lao PDR.
Thai CP Foods to buy $680 mln Russian poultry firm in overseas drive
- Reuters
- 24 July 2015
Thailand's largest meat producer to buy Russian poultry farm from Dutch firm Agro-Invest Brinky B.V. for $680 million in cash through its subsidiary CPF Netherlands, which receives a tax exemption from the Dutch government.
Chinese businessmen invest in Australian agriculture
- Xinhua
- 24 July 2015
Australian farms and cattle stations are becoming increasingly attractive to overseas investors - especially Chinese buyers looking for beef sources in other countries.