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Land conflicts in Tete and Gaza
- Joseph Hanlon
- 14 December 2012
The NGO FONGA claims that 80,000 people will be thrown off the land by Wanbao, a Chinese company that signed a concession for 20,000 ha in Gaza Provice Mozambique for rice production.
Cameroon: Campaigners oppose industrial palm oil plantation
- IRIN
- 14 December 2012
Campaigners opposed to a large palm oil plantation in a rainforest covering part of the Korup National Park in southwestern Cameroon say up to 45,000 people risk losing their livelihoods if the project proceeds.
Sime Darby’s response to report by Basta! and Friends of the Earth Liberia
- Sime Darby
- 14 December 2012
"If the populace objects, we will not develop the land," says Sime Darby
Why Africa’s agribusiness sector holds potential for private equity
- HowWeMadeItInAfrica
- 13 December 2012
Ander Einarsson, a partner at Phatisa and the team leader responsible for the Feronia deal, answered a few of How we made it in Africa’s questions.
Interview with GRAIN on the ProSavana project
- EJOLT
- 13 December 2012
Imagine a land of 14 million hectares, bigger than Switzerland and Austria combined. Populated by millions of farming families that together practice shifting cultivation. Now imagine a foreign consultant saying that all of these are abandoned lands.
Swedish fund stokes Australia farm-buying spree
- Agrimoney
- 12 December 2012
A Swedish pension fund has become the latest of a series of purchasers of Australian farmland, a buying spree which has fuelled public concerns, and raised discussion over curbs on foreign ownership.
The controversy of land deals in Liberia
- BBC
- 11 December 2012
From a a palm oil plantation run by a Malaysian company, Sime Darby, the Today programme's Evan Davis looked into whether lands deals are a route into better life, or a signing away of the nation's wealth.
African Agricultural Growth Corridors: Who benefits, who loses?
- EcoNexus
- 11 December 2012
Governments, IFIs and corporations are collaborating in major new projects to reorder land and water use and create industrial infrastructure over millions of ha in Africa to ensure sustained supplies of commodities and profits for markets.
Mercy Corps planning $10 million private-equity fund in Ethiopia
- Bloomberg
- 11 December 2012
Mercy Corps, a non-governmental aid agency, plans to set up a $10 million private equity fund in Ethiopia to encourage foreign investment, primarily in agriculture.
Land Rush: How do you feed the world
- Why Poverty?
- 11 December 2012
Documentary film examines the experience of Mali with large-scale farmland grabs.
US farm fund buys Elliott's old station
- The Australian
- 10 December 2012
TIAA-CREF's Westchester group buys 17,200 ha Cobran Station, once Australia's largest rice farm, while Sweden's Forsta AP-fonden buys the 16,000 ha Merri Meric farm near Henty.
Feronia Inc. announces strategic investment from Phatisa's African Agriculture Fund
- Feronia
- 10 December 2012
Feronia Inc. announced that it has entered into a share subscription agreement with the African Agriculture Fund managed by Phatisa Fund Managers Limited