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Invitation to participate to the Rangelands Observatory
- 05 December 2012
Invitation to participate to the Rangelands Observatory - to enhance informed and participatory decision-making on land use and investments in rangelands.
Funds’ $40 billion bet on farmland seen as a fraction of market
- Bloomberg
- 05 December 2012
Agricultural land represents an $8.4 trillion market, of which institutional investors own about $30 billion to $40 billion, according to Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management.
Karuturi flower farm workers down their tools
- The Star
- 05 December 2012
As losses from Karuturi's Ethiopian farm operations mount, over 3,000 workers from the company's flower farm in Kenya down their tools to protest non-payment of their salaries and poor working conditions.
Sierra Leone: Local communities vow to stop SOCFIN land grab
- Green Scenery
- 04 December 2012
Aggrieved landowners and land-users in Malen Chiefdom, Pujehun, call on Human Rights Commission to intervene against human rights violations by Paramount Chief and chiefdom authorities in Socfin operation area.
Harvesting opportunities on foreign soil
- China Daily
- 04 December 2012
More Chinese companies and individuals are looking for sources of growth in the rich land of Russia's Far East region.
American and European pension funds seeking place for their money
- Nikkei
- 04 December 2012
The results of pension funds’ alternative investments have been passable so far. In the case of farmland, at the end of last year the average total annual return over a 10 year period was more than 10%.
From Doha to Dakar, food insecurity is the norm
- IPS
- 04 December 2012
As African countries struggle to make use of their vast land resources to improve food production because of climate change, Qatar, like other Gulf States and emerging economies such as China, is leasing and buying land in Africa.
It's 2 am in Africa -- Do you know what your pension fund is doing there?
- Oakland Institute
- 04 December 2012
New report from Oakland Institute looks at private equity funds betting heavily on agriculture
Liberian communities statement on expansion of Sime Darby and Golden Veroleum plantations
- SDI
- 03 December 2012
Over 150 community representatives from four counties in Liberia gathered to discuss their experiences and concerns regarding the impact of oil palm plantations on their livelihoods and communities.
Live or drive, a choice has to be made
- Basta !
- 03 December 2012
A case study of Sime Darby operations in Liberia by Sophie Chapelle
Brazil farmland prices quadrupled over the past decade outpacing inflation
- MercoPress
- 03 December 2012
Prices for farmland in Brazil surged by an average 14% a year to nearly quadruple over the past decade, well outpacing inflation and nearly matching gains made by São Paulo's blue-chip Ibovespa stock index, a new study shows.
Resisting Sime Darby: Oil palm development slammed at Gbarpolu conference
- FrontPageAfrica
- 02 December 2012
Citizens at a conference in Bopolu expressed strong opposition to planned oil-palm development by Sime Darby in Gbarpolu County.