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Chinese covet cattle stations
- The Land
- 27 October 2014
China's ravenous demand for Australian beef could soon lead to some major cattle station purchases, with one of several Chinese importers, Snow Dragon Group, looking to buy land.
Lufwanyama headed for edible oil boom
- Zambia Daily Mail
- 27 October 2014
Wilmar subsidiary says it is targeting a total investment of US$100 million on 20,000 hectares of farmland to produce 100,000 metric tonnes of edible oils per annum.
UAE firm set to produce 300,000 tonnes of wheat in Egypt's Toshka
- Reuters
- 27 October 2014
UAE-based Al Dahra Agriculture aims to pump water from the country's Aswan High Dam reservoir and deliver it via a 50-kilometre canal to 100,000 acres of reclaimed farmland 60 km from the border with Sudan.
Harvest of hardship: Yala Swamp land grab destroys Kenyan farmers' livelihoods
- GRAIN
- 27 October 2014
A June 2014 interview with farmer Erastus Odindo about his community's struggle to defend their lands from US-based Dominion Farms
Tanzania seeks Omani investment in agriculture and minerals
- Times of Oman
- 26 October 2014
The Tanzanian food industry that Omani business companies can tap into is not only confined to what is grown on the field but the fishing industry as well, says speaker of the National Assembly of Tanzania, Anne Makinda.
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.