Hong Kong-listed Fosun International, a conglomerate with investments in businesses ranging from holiday resort chain Club Med to upmarket circus show Cirque de Soleil, is to buy 9% of German farm-operator KTG Agrar.
Peter Sondakh, the Rajawali Group chairman and chief executive officer, has set his sight on making his company a global giant in the palm oil business and sees PNG as the game changer for the industry.
The collaboration of the two companies is part of the overall development of Amatheon’s already 40 000 hectares titled farm block.
The China-based company PT Thian Yuan Agriculture Technology Trading has submitted an application to operate a cassava plantation in Ketapang, West Kalimantan.
State-controlled Felda Global Ventures Bhd (FGV)said it needs more land bank and has been looking outside Malaysia for some time to boost its portfolio, including Africa, Myanmar and Indonesia.
- The Malaysian Insider
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26 June 2015
a villager from Cambodia's Tbong Khmum province accused of injuring a worker and his translator of Chinese investor’s Hameniven Investment in a long running dispute over 600 hectares of farm land.
This joint IISD, World Bank and UNCTAD discussion paper seeks to show how investment contracts can be set up to promote sustainable development
Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi plans to invest an additional $5 billion in Ethiopia's agriculture and agro-processing sectors over the 2016-2021 period.
Mozambique Agriculture Company (Mozaco) of the João Ferreira dos Santos group has requested 2,000 acres in the Malema district of Nampula for soybean cultivation.
Building on the so-called “Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles”, social movements and grassroots organizations from across West Africa will gather to discuss land and water issues in the region.
Around 150 villagers in northwestern Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province have blocked a Chinese concession holder from clearing land they say was reserved for grazing their cattle.
The IFC will invest $20m for a 19.7% stake in Zambian farmland operator Agrivision, with existing equity partner Norfund and Zeder topping up their respective investments.
- Business Day
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24 June 2015