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Rural agents bet on farmland boom
- Farm Weekly
- 01 June 2015
Competition is growing between Australia's major rural land selling agents as major institutional and private investors seek to gain a foothold in the growth area of agriculture.
Myanmar works for formulating policy framework for foreign investment in agriculture
- Xinhua
- 31 May 2015
"There will be concerns about agriculture investment unless land ownership is opened to foreign investors,' says the OECD's Jan Rielander.
Transnational resistance against land grabbing in Mali
- Afrique-Europe-Interact
- 30 May 2015
Two villages, Sanamadougou and Sahou, in Mali, have been fighting for the past five years against eviction from their land by the large-scale investor Modibo Keita.
Failed harvest
- Business Standard
- 30 May 2015
Many Punjab farmers who went to Africa and Georgia in search of greener pastures are returning home
Mitr Phol growing in Laos
- Bangkok Post
- 29 May 2015
Mitr Phol Group, Asia's biggest sugar producer, has earmarked 3.5 billion baht to double production in Laos, fed by a plantation area in the southern province of Savannakhet.
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.