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Nigeria: Osun partners Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina on agric
- This Day
- 25 November 2014
Osun State Government signed agriculture partnerships over the weekend with investors from Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.
Kohlberg Kravis, Bunge Agribusiness express interest in Golden Plantation
- Reuters
- 24 November 2014
KKR and Bunge have expressed interest in buying 88% of PT Golden Plantation, which owns 49,000 hectares of oil palm plantations in Kalimantan, Riau and Sumatra, Indonesia
Deforestation, "development" connected to spread of Ebola in West Africa
- TruthOut
- 24 November 2014
"In a country like Liberia, it is not possible to do large-scale sustainable plantations". Silas Siakor explains the link between the Ebola epidemic and the ruthless exploitation of forest resources in the region.
Land grabbing, still a huge problem in Eastern Europe
- EurActiv
- 24 November 2014
The EU is currently witnessing a massive land grab, which has a direct impact on 25 million of its citizens, changing the way lands are being managed and how food is being produced.
Zambia: TALMED to invest $7m in Mpongwe farm
- Zambia Daily Mail
- 24 November 2014
TALMED International Zambia Limited has set aside about US$7 million to establish a commercial farm on 5,272 hectares in Mukumpu area to produce soya beans, maize and wheat .
Congo plantation improvement plan follows TRF investigation
- Reuters
- 21 November 2014
One of Africa’s largest palm oil investors announces plans to improve social infrastructure, a week after a Reuters investigation found that its poorly paid plantation workers were living in dilapidated homes with poor social services.
Terra Firma to sell Aus beef stake
- Financial Review
- 21 November 2014
London-based private equity titan Terra Firma is mulling a partial sale of Australia's largest privately owned beef producer, after being approached by several Chinese companies.
Why Wall Street investors and Chinese firms are buying farmland all over the world
- Vox
- 21 November 2014
A new study in Environmental Research Letters finds that at least 126 countries are now involved in purchasing or selling global farmland.
Canada: Gov’t must address land investment deals
- Western Producer
- 21 November 2014
The aggressive attempts of investment concerns to acquire large tracts of Saskatchewan farmland should be among the issues addressed in the fall sitting of the Saskatchewan legislature.
Hard Facts, episoe 8 "HM"
- TV4
- 21 November 2014
Sweden's TV4 investigates the multinational retail clothing company H&M's possible involvement in landgrabbing in Ethiopia.
Salim preempts San Miguel, ties up with Malaysia’s Kuok
- Manila Standard
- 20 November 2014
First Pacific's partnership with Kuok may have virtually killed San Miguel’s planned $1-billion joint agriculture project with the Malaysian tycoon.
MoU signed for agricultural investment fund
- SUNA
- 20 November 2014
Sudan signs an MOU for the establishment of an agriculture investment fund with a Lebanese company owned by Fras Badra that is pursuing an 87,000 ha alfalfa project.