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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.
Sime Darby has contingency plan prepared for Indonesian cap on foreign ownership
- Sun Daily
- 01 September 2014
Sime Darby Bhd has a contingency plan ready for a possible change in legislation on foreign ownership of plantation land in Indonesia.
Burma: Big farmers' protest over govt failure to resolve land grab problems
- Eleven
- 01 September 2014
Over 1,000 farmers staged a protest on Saturday over the government’s failure to prevent or adequately resolve land grabs.
Africans’ land rights at risk as new agricultural trend sweeps continent
- IPS
- 01 September 2014
The need for private sector investment in Africa is manifest, but the quality of those inflows of capital is vital if it is to enhance the livelihoods of millions of food producers in Africa.
After prolonged protest, villagers win back land
- Cambodia Daily
- 01 September 2014
Cambodia's Land Management Minister intervened in a high-profile land dispute between villagers and a South Korean agribusiness firmn, announcing that the lands would be taken back from the company and awarded to local residents.
Egypt pledges 10,000 acre irrigation project for Wau
- Radio Tamazuj
- 01 September 2014
Egypt’s government has pledged to implement a model farm project occupying 10,000 acres in Wau in South Sudan’s Western Bahr el Ghazal state
A seat at the table? Ensuring smallholder farmers are heard in Public-private partnerships
- Fairtrade International
- 01 September 2014
Study of agricultural PPPs in Ghana, Malawi and Kenya, identifies examples of PPPs failing to engage effectively with smallholder farmers.
Arabs participate in Brazil-Africa integration
- ANBA
- 29 August 2014
A project with Algerian investment in Brazil and another with Brazilian investment in Sudan were presented at the Brazil-Africa Forum this Friday in Fortaleza, Ceará.