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Agrarian mirage: Gulf foreign direct investment in Pakistan’s agricultural sector
- MEI
- 02 October 2014
How did such a promising idea (which appeared to offer a textbook example of a win-win situation) fail?
Farmers accuse North Kordofan governor of land grabs
- Radio Tamazuj
- 01 October 2014
Street protests could erupt at any time in El Obeid town in North Kordofan due to a dispute over agricultural land between local farmers and the state governor, an activist said.
Noble, COFCO complete agribusiness joint venture
- World Grain
- 01 October 2014
COFCO, Hopu Investment, Temasek, IFC and Standard and Chartered announce that the transaction to acquire Noble Agri through a holding company has gone through.
UAE-Al Dahra to Egypt's Mahlab 'We pumped EGP750mn in Toshka Project'
- Amwal Alghad
- 01 October 2014
Egyptian PM Ibrahim Mahlab met with UAE Minister of State Ahmed Al Jaber and officials of Al Dahra Agriculture to assure them that the Egyptian government is removing obstacles to the company's projects in Toshka.
Richest African Dangote says Dubai deals may be billions
- Bloomberg
- 01 October 2014
Investment Corp. of Dubai in tie-up with Nigerian businessman Aliko Dangote that "could run into billions of dollars" and involves ventures in agriculture.
Farmers protest at ANZ Bank against land grabs
- Yahoo!
- 01 October 2014
Farmers held a demonstration at a branch of the ANZ Royal Bank in Phnom Penh on October 1, 2014 to protest against the bank’s financing of sugar plantations.
Thousands of hectares taken back from concessions
- VOA
- 30 September 2014
Cambodian authorities have taken back thousands of hectares of land concessions from eight private companies, in order to create a national park
Chinese investors eye fruit plantations in Saravan
- Vientiane Times
- 29 September 2014
Chinese investors are eying the potential of multi-million dollar investments in banana and other tropical fruit plantation projects in Saravan province, according to the provincial deputy governor.
Indonesia’s oil palm dilemma
- The Star
- 27 September 2014
Indonesia’s attractiveness for being the preferred destination of Malaysian oil palm planters has been shaken by reports of the country’s plan for a plantation bill that will limit foreign ownership to 30% from the present 95%.
How financialisation influences the dynamics in the food supply chain
- SOMO
- 26 September 2014
Discussion paper for the workshop ‘Mapping the State of Play on the Global Food Landscape’ Waterloo, 25-27 September 2014.
Qatar increases its investments in Turkey's agribusiness sector
- Daily Sabah
- 24 September 2014
Officials from Hassad Food arrived in Turkey to make investments aiming to slake the country’s basic agricultural requirements as the small peninsula lacks sufficient arable land
Planet palm oil: peasants pay the price for cheap vegetable oil
- GRAIN
- 24 September 2014
Over the past fifteen years, foreign companies have signed over 60 deals covering nearly 4 million hectares in central and western Africa for the development of oil palm plantations, reports GRAIN.