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Feeling hungry, SWFs ramp up food and agriculture purchases
- Institutional Investor
- 05 Mar 2015
Sovereign wealth funds’ appetite for agriculture and fertilizer companies is growing as concerns about stable food supplies rise.
Roundtable on International Responsible Agricultural Investment held in Riyadh
- Agroberichten Buitenland
- 05 Mar 2015
In January 2015, the Dutch embassy in Riyadh hosted a meeting with GCC investors and officials to discuss how to work together on land-based ag investments in Africa in order to achieve GCC food security.
Foreign investment and thirst for capital drives growth in 'sale and leaseback' property deals
- ABC
- 05 Mar 2015
Sale and leaseback agreements were almost unheard of in agriculture five years ago, but a few major deals recently have put them on the map, according to property group Colliers International.
Haiti: signing of an important agro-industrial project
- Haiti Libre
- 05 Mar 2015
Haiti's agriculture ministry has signed an agreement with a consortium of Haitian and Colombian investors to establish a major oil palm project on 4,000 ha over the next 5 years.
(Not) Doing business in Nigeria
- Dominion Farms
- 05 Mar 2015
Calvin Burgess, chairman of Dominion Farms, has issued a letter denying their involvement in a 30,000 hectare landgrab in Nigeria's Taraba State.
RRI condemns the murder of Indra Pelani, land rights activist beaten to death by guards contracted to Asia Pulp and Paper (APP)
- RRI
- 04 Mar 2015
Local and international NGOs condemn Feb 27 killing of a farmer and land rights defender in Jambi, Indonesia.
Africa has potential for CPO output
- Rakyat Post
- 04 Mar 2015
Government-led land deals, micro financing options by regional banks and favourable tax regimes are among the factors contributing to making Africa the new frontier for palm oil plantations.
Joyce stands up for FDI changes
- Farm Weekly
- 04 Mar 2015
Australia's agriculture minister, Barnaby Joyce, has defended the government’s newly tightened foreign investment regime before key agricultural industry stakeholders.
Ugandan farmers take on palm oil giants over land grab claims
- Guardian
- 03 Mar 2015
Farmers evicted to make way for project backed by UN's IFAD say they have received little compensation. They're taking the industrial palm oil producers to court.
Stop #landrights fraud!
- Oakland Institute
- 03 Mar 2015
Civil society rejects the World Bank’s sham Conference on Land and Poverty and denounces the Bank’s role in global land grabs.
Mapping the global battle to protect our planet
- Guardian
- 03 Mar 2015
A new project maps environmental protest across the world, powerfully visualising a growing movement, building new points of convergence unite movements working on issues from food sovereignty to land-grabbing, biofuels and climate justice.
Africa to be the next frontier for oil palm
- The Hindu
- 03 Mar 2015
Olam has embarked on its first palm oil industrial project in Gabon, investing $500 million in 50,000 hectares of plantations in phase I.