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Land laws block private equity flow into region’s agribusiness
- East African
- 13 December 2013
Differing land ownership laws in East Africa are hurting the growth of agribusiness as the sector is unable to attract needed private equity funds.
Canada's CPPIB to buy farmland portfolio in Saskatchewan
- Reuters
- 12 December 2013
Last year, CPPIB launched its agriculture investment program which is initially focusing on farmland opportunities in Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil.
Latvian farmers advised to exercise caution in signing land lease contracts with foreigners
- Baltic Course
- 12 December 2013
Several farmers in Latvia report incidents with foreign entities that offer farmers highly complex land rental agreements where, should farmers fail to meet certain contractual provisions, they can lose the land.
Land as a matter of human rights
- The Broker
- 12 December 2013
Land grabbing is an expression of the dominant development model based on production and consumption patterns in which financial capital reigns.
Former Blackstone unit exec Bruce Wrobel dies
- CNBC
- 12 December 2013
Wrobel was CEO of Herakles Farms, which had sought to build palm oil farms in Cameroon.
Land conflicts in Argentina: From resistance to systemic transformation
- Food First
- 12 December 2013
Peasant movements are resisting this assault on their lands and fighting to transform the system.
CapMan Russia fund exits Russian Baltic Pork Invest ASA to international agro-food conglomerate
- GlobeNewswire
- 12 December 2013
Fund sells large scale pork farm in Russia to Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Foods.
CPPIB buys Saskatchewan farms in $128-million deal
- Globe and Mail
- 12 December 2013
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is buying a portfolio of Saskatchewan farms, with the $128-million purchase of Assiniboia Farmland LP.
South-South land grabbing: what the case of Egypt and its southern neighbours reveals
- Pambazuka
- 12 December 2013
Emerging regional powers’ in the South have produced powerful finance capitalists such as the Egyptian firm, Citadel Capital. Allied with global governance institutions, such firms represent greater control over vital resources and distribution routes for private wealth accumulation
Colombian rebels seen blocking farmland overhaul
- Bloomberg
- 11 December 2013
Bloomberg reports that a Colombian government plan to help Cargill and other investors acquire farmland was possibly killed by the FARC, meeting with officials for peace talks 1,400 miles away in Havana.
Sierra Leone police open fire during anti-palm oil protest
- Reuters
- 10 December 2013
Police in Sierra Leone opened fire on Tuesday on an armed protest against the expansion of palm oil plantations operated by the international agro-investor Socfin Group, a police chief said.
Police attack palm oil protestors in Sierra Leone
- CorpWatch
- 10 December 2013
Sierra Leone police opened fire on a group of protestors who were demonstrating against a palm oil plantation being developed by Socfin, a French agri-business giant.