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Draft plantations bill on foreign ownership limit hits presidential hurdle
- Reuters
- 08 September 2014
Indonesia's outgoing president is against a draft bill that would retroactively limit foreign ownership of plantations to no more than 30 percent.
Olam’s rice nucleus program
- World Grain
- 04 September 2014
The commercial farm currently has 3,000 hectares under cultivation and another 3,000 hectares will be developed in 2015, while 3,000 farmers are involved in its outgrower programme.
Cameroon to develop 800 additional hectares of bananas
- blackseagrain.net
- 04 September 2014
A new 800 ha banana plantation is planned in Dehaene in the South region by a subsidiary of France's Compagnie Fruitière.
Edo, 16 investors sign MoU to develop agribusiness
- Business Day
- 04 September 2014
500,000 hectares of new farmlands has so far been identified across the Nigerian state to be allocated to the investors to develop the sector.
Lufthansa helps establish $600m biofuel fund
- PEI
- 04 September 2014
German airline Lufthansa in talks with several investment firms about taking on management of a private equity fund that will invest into farmland in Cameroon and Eastern Europe to grow oil crops.
Agri-business fund seeks $250 mln for neglected market; Washington, Maine pensions on board
- PE Hub
- 04 September 2014
Taking aim at one of the less-traveled areas of private equity, Agriculture Capital Management is targeting $250 million for a debut fund called ACM Permanent Crops.
Forests in Mozambique face extinction
- WRM
- 04 September 2014
The ProSavana agriculture programme is causing environmental degradation and the near extinction of indigenous communities in the savannah regions of northern Mozambique.
China's engagement with African agriculture
- All About Feed
- 03 September 2014
Some experts say that the Chinese engagement in African agriculture is still in the exploratory stage.
25 million dollars will be invested in rural-agricultural sector of west side of Georgia
- Georgia
- 03 September 2014
Georgian government signs MOU with Chinese counterparts for $20-25 million investments in the agricultural sector in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region.
Papua New Guinea must not renew license to deforest due to legal irregularities, social and environmental harm
- Global Witness
- 03 September 2014
Global Witness is urging Papua New Guinea to block a bid by one of Malaysia’s biggest logging companies, Rimbunan Hijau, to renew a license that permits it to flatten over 40,000 hectares of tropical rainforest in order to grow oil palm.
AP Pension deploys half of farmland allocation
- PEI
- 02 September 2014
AP Pension, the €16 billion Danish pension fund, has now invested €40 million into local farms representing half of its farmland allocation for the year.
DGC to launch blueberry investment vehicle
- PEI
- 02 September 2014
DGC Asset Management, a UK-based agriculture investment company, is launching its first farmland investment vehicle, offering investments into US-based blueberry farms, next month.