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An Indian dynasty betting on Romanian agriculture
- Black Sea Group
- 29 May 2015
Gupta family, one of the most powerful business dynasties in India alongside that of Lakshmi Mittal, bought two farms with a total of 2,500 hectares of land in Teleorman.
Deforestation, exploitation, hypocrisy: no end to Wilmar's palm oil land grabs
- The Ecologist
- 29 May 2015
While Wilmar spins green rhetoric, its bulldozers are still destroying vast swathes of forest and farmland.
African land is a profitable but potentially dangerous investment
- NGO Pulse
- 29 May 2015
Foreigners mostly seek agricultural land and land for tourism developments, but all foreigner-owned land in Africa holds the potential to prompt violence from displaced people.
Kuwaiti group to invest in sugar cane plantation in southern Mozambique
- Bernama
- 29 May 2015
Kuwait's Al-Badel International Development Company said it will launch a US$1.5 billion project to grow sugar cane in southern Mozambican province of Gaza within the next three months.
Brookfield said to raise $300 million for Brazil farmland fund
- Bloomberg
- 28 May 2015
Brookfield Asset Management Inc., Canada’s largest alternative asset manager, has raised $300 million for a new agricultural fund targeting Brazilian farmland, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
Bunong threaten to fell firm’s rubber trees
- Cambodia Daily
- 28 May 2015
About 100 ethnic Bunong protested outside the local office of French-owned rubber firm Socfin KCD in Cambodia yesterday, threatening to cut down its rubber trees if their ancestral lands were not returned.
Deforestation, exploitation, hypocrisy: no end to Wilmar's palm oil land grabs
- The Ecologist
- 27 May 2015
While Wilmar spins green rhetoric, its bulldozers are still destroying vast swathes of forest and farmland.
Angola’s $750 million sugar-to-fuel project to start in June
- Bloomberg
- 26 May 2015
A $750 million project to produce ethanol and sugar in Angola will start next month after a year of delays as costs rose 50 percent on a plantation larger than Montreal.
Ukrainian agro-businesses urge gov't to lift ban on farmland sales
- Xinhua
- 26 May 2015
The Ukrainian Agriculture Business Association on Tuesday urged the government to lift its ban on farmland sales so as to spur the development of the agro-food sector.
In Luxembourg, Bolloré and Socfin count their profits while conflicts persist in their African and Asian plantations
- ReAct
- 26 May 2015
On 27 May, Socfin shareholders meet in Luxembourg while local communities deprived of their lands from Cambodia to Côte d'Ivoire mobilise for their rights.
Koreans offer food expertise to UAE
- The National
- 25 May 2015
A South Korean food security office will open in Abu Dhabi next month to help the UAE in its agricultural and fishery sectors, says the country’s ambassador to the UAE.
Qatar announces readiness for further investments in Sudan
- Sudan Vision
- 25 May 2015
Al Bashir affirmed Sudan’s warm welcome to Qatari investors to invest in the projects of Arab food security as Sudan has currently availed more than two million acres appropriate for cultivation and free from prohibitions.