Midroc's subsidiary Elfora Agro-industry Plc plans to cultivate alfalfa on 300ha of land at Nettle and Shallo in the Oromia Region with an objective of producing 600 tonnes of forage a month.
- Addis Fortune
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11 May 2015
500,000 people in northern Mozambique will be severely affected if the country's Council of Ministers approves the Lúrio River Valley Development Project (DVRL).
Members of the European Parliament adopted last 29 April a motion calling for mandatory human rights due diligence for corporations. The Council and Commission are not legally obliged to follow through.
This report has been written for emerging market private equity fund managers. It highlights trends in private equity investment in emerging markets agribusiness
“Russia and China’s investment in agriculture will enable the development of large areas of [uncultivated] arable land on the borders between our countries,” RDIF chief Kirill Dmitriev was quoted as saying.
Some estimates now bring the total of Ukrainian farmland controlled by foreign companies to over 2.2 million ha.
- Oakland Institue
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08 May 2015
In this presentation Ward Anseeuw describes the increasing financialisation of food and agriculture, and the impact this has on land and food availability.
Vicstock Grain and its Chinese backers (Beidahuang) have dramatically scaled back their cropping operations in the Wheatbelt three years after a $70 million spending spree on farmland.
- West Australian
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07 May 2015
SigmaBleyzer's company AgroGeneration manages fields of wheat, sunflowers and other crops in five Ukrainian regions and is looking for deals to expand farm operations in the country
There's a saying in Indonesian palm oil industry: Sumatra is yesterday, Kalimantan is today, and Papua is tomorrow. Tomorrow might well have arrived.
A new report sheds light on the industry's rapid expansion in Indonesia's easternmost region and the companies behind the plantation drive.
More than 300 villagers formed a human barrier, blocking bulldozers owned by the two foreign companies, Vietnamese developer Thy Nga and Taiwanese firm PNT who are encroaching ancestral farmland and operating outside of the boundaries set by their concessions.
Asia’s largest sugar producer, Thailand’s Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation, has withdrawn from its three plantations in Oddar Meanchey province in Cambodia following years of criticism over alleged illegalities and human rights abuses at the concessions.