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BrasilAgro shares soar as land sale flags rising values
- Agrimoney
- 10 June 2015
Brazilian agriculture company BrasilAgro sold its Cremaq farm in Piauí for more than seven times what was paid for it nine years ago.
Zhejiang firm to help agriculture in eastern Russia
- China Daily
- 10 June 2015
Zoje Resources Investment has obtained a 49-year land lease from Russia's Transbaikal regional government to develop agriculture and livestock farms on 115,000 hectares of uncultivated land.
EU investors, land grabs and deforestation: case-studies
- FERN
- 10 June 2015
European banks and investors are a major source of finance for large-scale destructive agriculture; forestry; and pulp and paper projects.
Trying to follow the money: Tracing investments to actual places in SE Asia
- CIFOR
- 10 June 2015
Following the many paths of where investment dollars go to fund agricultural commodities in SE Asia can be a challenging but not impossible prospect.
UAE corporation to invest $10 billion in agricultural land in Sudan
- Sudan Tribune
- 09 June 2015
Government agency announces that Al-Dahra Holding has expressed a desire to acquire 2.4 million acres of land in one of the largest valleys extending from Sahl al-Batana in the east to the River Nile state in northern Sudan.
Mozambique: People's appeal for an immediate invalidation of the 'Public Hearing of ProSavana's Master Plan"
- 08 June 2015
Appeal reflects and expresses our profound indignation and discontent regarding the public hearing process, especially regarding the way these meetings were planned, convened and held.
Global land grabbing: some new resources
- Zimbabweland
- 08 June 2015
The ‘land grab’ debate continues to evolve and today there is much more empirical data, as witnessed by the veritable explosion of publications.
Coordinated protests hit Socfin plantations in four countries
- Mongabay
- 05 June 2015
Since April, communities and activists in Cameroon, Cambodia, Liberia and the Ivory Coast have also staged direct protest actions against subsidiaries of Socfin, one of the world's largest independent plantation owners with 150,000 hectares of rubber and oil palm in several African and Southeast Asian countries.
UK development finance arm accused of bankrolling 'agro-colonialism' in Congo
- Guardian
- 05 June 2015
Report claims workers of palm oil company part-owned by DFI earn a pittance, live in harsh conditions and have had their land taken illegally, though DFI says it is trying to improve pay and conditions for workers.
An agricultural revolution by Amtaar Investment
- World Folio
- 05 June 2015
As a joint venture between the UAE based Jenaan Investment and the Republic of the Sudan, Amtaar is today Sudan's largest scale agricultural investment.
Reports surface of ‘massacre’ of Hamar tribespeople in Ethiopia
- Survival International
- 05 June 2015
Hamar pastoralists are being evicted to roadside villages without their consent, and their ancestral grazing lands are being sold off to investors for commercial plantations.
ADFD extends AED183.6 million loan to Montenegro to support agriculture
- Zawya
- 05 June 2015
Phase two of the agreement involves the procurement of services relevant to machinery, factories, warehouses, and agricultural land.