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Sino Agro Food engages Burnham Securities Inc. as investment banker & financial advisor
- PRNewswire
- 07 April 2015
Leading Chinese "farm to table" agribusiness, with livestock and plantation operations in China, retains New York investment firm
Ethiopia: Sugar production to begin at former Pakistani-owned plant
- Addis Fortune
- 06 April 2015
In addition to these ongoing seven sugar factories, there is also an ongoing private initiative, Hiber Sugar S.C. which will operates on 25,000ha of land in Amhara Regional State at Tana Beles Basin.
Caraga eyed for oil palm amid 1-M-hectare target for Mindanao
- Business World
- 05 April 2015
Mindanao authorities are looking at developing about a million hectares for oil palm farming and nine companies from Malaysia and Indonesia have signaled their intention to invest.
Agricultural Development Fund to invest in agriculture projects - KazAgro
- Kazakhstan 2050
- 02 April 2015
During a visit by the Prime Minister of Hungary, KazAgro and the Export-Import Bank of Hungary agreed to establish a 50:50, $40 million Development Fund to invest in Kazakhstan agriculture.
World Bank funding 'shrouded in darkness and riddled with abuse'
- Guardian
- 02 April 2015
NGOs launch collective call for revamp of World Bank’s private sector arm amid accusations it has ‘lost control of the way money is spent’ and is funding land grabs in Honduras and Cambodia.
Harmful social and environmental impacts of Liberia palm oil project exposed
- FPP
- 02 April 2015
Golden Veroleum and Golden Agri-Resource’s palm oil operations in Liberia are compounding poverty and food insecurity by taking land without community consent and making hollow promises of development benefits, says new report.
In Indonesia, local communities lose out as oil palm expands
- CIFOR
- 01 April 2015
Oil palm, billed as a way to improve local economic opportunity and reduce poverty in the tropics, may not live up to that billing, a recent report shows. On the front lines of oil palm expansion, the indigenous forest-dwelling Arfak people of West Papua Province, Indonesia believe they are not the beneficiaries of the palm’s promise.
True Milk opens 1 billion USD plant in Moscow
- Vietnam+
- 01 April 2015
Vietnamese dairy firm TH True Milk will open a US$1 billion dairy in a Moscow suburb that will produces its own animal feed and breed its own cows
UAE’s food imports to rise to $400b in 10 years
- Gulf News
- 31 Mar 2015
The UAE import 85 per cent of its food, and the government plans to develop farmland in other countries — due to the lack of arable lands in the UAE — to secure food supplies amid increasing demand.
Soros ‘ready to invest’ in Ukraine
- EurActiv
- 31 Mar 2015
George Soros is ready to invest $1 billion in agriculture and infrastructure projects in Ukraine if Western countries help private investment there.
Land grabbing in Romania
- Eco Ruralis
- 31 Mar 2015
The Romanian NGO Eco Ruralis has published several fact sheets on foreign companies grabbing farmland in Romania, including Padova Agricultura, Riso Scotti, Generali, and Bardeau.
AAF ESG Annual Report 2014
- Phatisa
- 31 Mar 2015
African Agriculture Fund Environmental, Social and Governance Annual Report 2014