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Interview: Fonterra CEO Theo Spierings
- NBR
- 26 October 2014
Fonterra boss Theo Spierings is "not worried” about sales of NZ productive land to foreigners so long as we are “working together” with foreign owners.
Senegal : Message from the Collective of the 37 villages of the Ndiael region to the President of the Republic
- Ndar Info
- 25 October 2014
The concession of 20,000 ha of Senegal River delta land occupied by poor farmers and herders to the Senhuile Company is continuing to cause social and environmental harm in the Ndiael.
Kuwait's Tijaria plans Turkish farmland investment
- Arabian Business
- 24 October 2014
The main objective of this investment is buying and developing pre-targeted farmlands in an area of 1,000 ha.
Investors pour cash into large-scale agricultural projects
- VietNamNet
- 24 October 2014
With the Economic Large-Scale Production (ELSP) model being implemented more frequently in Vietnam, more companies are looking to invest in agricultural production as it becomes more profitable and efficient.
Romania farmland costing fraction of UK lures investors
- Bloomberg
- 24 October 2014
"Land consolidation is the only way,” Peter Beerents, chief executive officer of Dutch farmland investment firm Cibus Land Management Srl.
EBRD provides loan to major agribusiness in Ukraine
- World Grain
- 24 October 2014
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is taking part in a $230 million syndicated loan facility for Warsaw-listed Kernel Group, one of the largest farming companies in the Ukraine.
French firm in row over land
- APA
- 24 October 2014
French agricultural firm, Socofin, which has a huge investment in Sierra Leone, has denied involvement in a recent controversial trip by a leading member of a pressure group challenging its activities in the country.
Fiagril negotiates sale of minority stake to Chinatex
- Valor Econômico
- 24 October 2014
Fiagril, a Mato Grosso company operating in the trading and processing of grains, is negotiating the sale of a minority stake to Chinese agribusiness company Chinatex for R$400 million to R$500 million
Mozambique: More than 1,000 people displaced from their lands in Lioma
- @Verdade
- 24 October 2014
More than a thousand sustenance farmers were removed from their lands by the Brazilian company AGROMOZ, to make way for soybean production in an area of some 3,000 hectares.
Land & resource grabs in the United States: Five sites of struggle and potential transformation
- Food First
- 24 October 2014
Briefing identifies five strategic “nexuses” to help understand how land converges with historically embedded power relations in the United States.
CSOs walk out of World Bank "consultation" on Safeguards policy
- Safeguardcomments
- 24 October 2014
Civil society groups walk out of World Bank "consultation" on their Safeguards policy. The Safeguards are supposed to set best practice for the World Bank and protect people's rights, but the new draft allows the bank and companies to go ahead with projects that affect land rights without consent of affected communities.
In the midst of the ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, SOCFIN poised the capture Malen Chiefdom
- Standard Times
- 23 October 2014
As the ebola epidemic rages on, Socfin continues to grab land from the people of Malen in league with some chiefdom authorities.