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Palm oil company efforts to slow deforestation not sustainable
- FPP
- 17 February 2014
A new report explores how one of Indonesia’s largest palm oil companies, Golden Agri Resources, is piloting its new Forest Conservation Policy in West Kalimantan.
China investors eye Undabri
- The Land
- 17 February 2014
Chinese buyers are in negotiations to buy another well-known south-west Queensland cropping property of 11,935 ha for more than $36 million.
Investors assured of state support
- Tanzania Daily News
- 16 February 2014
Tanzania's Minister for Agriculture says land to be used for investments would be acquired through proper channels. "Send this message to all that Tanzania's government has no plans to grab land."
Karuturi going down? A summary of recent developments
- TJN et al
- 14 February 2014
Background document accompanying the 14 February 2014 media release issued by Tax Justice Network, GRAIN, Anywaa Survival Organisation, Forum Syd Kenya and the South Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers Movements.
Karuturi, the iconic landgrabber, flops
- TJN et al
- 14 February 2014
Karturi Ltd, the Kenyan flower production unit of Karuturi Global, is in financial collapse and been put under receivership. One of the world's most infamous landgrabbers is in its deepest trouble yet.
Ferrero looks to make Serbia "hub of hazelnut production"
- Tanjug
- 13 February 2014
Italian confectionery group Ferrero signed with the Serbian Minister of Agriculture an agreement on the purchase of 1,000 hectares intended for the production of hazelnuts.
Olam's $211m almond deal
- The Land
- 13 February 2014
Olam international has concluded a $211 million sale for its vast Victorian almond orchards on the Murray River at Mildura and Robinvale as part of a minimum 18-year lease-back deal.
Here's why foreign investors are trying to buy American farmland
- Takepart.com
- 13 February 2014
“Farmland has now become the latest scarce ‘hot’ commodity for all sorts of speculators who have absolutely no interest in agriculture,” says John Peck of Wisconsin-based Family Farm Defenders.
PNG's land scandal inquiry names an Australian-led company
- ABC
- 12 February 2014
A Commission of Inquiry in Papua New Guinea has recommended an Australian-led company involved in obtaining leases over more than two million hectares of traditional land be investigated for criminal misconduct and conspiracy.
The Matru Jong Palm Oil Production Project …The debate rages on
- Global Times
- 12 February 2014
Luke Marriott’s Gold Tree is presently fighting tooth and nail to take over the Matru Jong 7,008 acre oil palm plantation but industry experts say that Gold Tree does not have the capacity (money).
Berlin film festival features We Come As Friends, a documentary on South Sudan
- The National
- 12 February 2014
The film shows a contract worth just US$25,000 (Dh92,000) for 600,000 hectares of land, with full exploitation rights, made out to Howard Douglas, a former United States ambassador and coordinator for refugee affairs.
Fleurette commits further funding for Kitoko Food, bringing total investment to $14 million
- PRNewswire
- 11 February 2014
The Fleurette Group, controlled by Israeli businessman Dan Gertler, announces a further financial commitment of $1.5 million for 2014 its 1,482-acre Kitoko Food Farm in the DR Congo.