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Striving to secure rights for 89,000 land users
- NPA
- 06 June 2012
In South Sudan, between 2007 and 2010, about 9% of the total land surface was leased or in the process of being leased for large-scale land investment.
Cargill plans palm-oil plantations in Ivory Coast, ministry says
- Bloomberg
- 06 June 2012
The company may invest as much as 200 billion CFA francs ($380 million) to develop industrial palm-oil plantations and processing facilities in Ivory Coast within five years.
Cevital of Algeria seeks Ivory Coast land for rice, sugar
- Bloomberg
- 06 June 2012
Cevital, Algeria’s biggest sugar producer, asked Ivory Coast’s government to make land available for the production of rice, sugar, maize and vegetable oil, according to a company official.
Invest in agriculture, Veep urges private firms
- Zambia Daily Mail
- 06 June 2012
Zambia's Vice-President Guy Scott calls on private companies in the country to invest in agriculture and commercialise the sector to boost production of more maize for export.
Presentation entitled "Nacala Corridor Prosavana Program"
- FGV
- 05 June 2012
Presented by FGV at JICA's ProSAVANA Seminar, "Fourth Opinion Sharing Meeting on Agriculture Development of Northern Mozambique: reporting from the triangular joint mission to promote agriculture investment in the Nacala Corridor", June 5, 2012.
81pc reject foreign farm buyers
- Australian Financial Review
- 05 June 2012
The government's plans to make northern Australia into an Asian food bowl with the help of Chinese investment may run into trouble, after a new poll confirmed opposition to foreigners buying the farm.
Coffee colonialism: Olam plantation displaces Lao farmers
- CorpWatch
- 04 June 2012
Between the farmers and Olam lies one of Lao’s most powerful, and some allege, corrupt families, the Siphandones.
Land deals in Sierra Leone involving Kevin Godlington
- 03 June 2012
A collection of leases for farmland in Sierra Leone in which Kevin Godlington of the UK was involved.
An overview of industrial tree plantations in the global South: Conflicts, trends and resistance struggles
- EJOLT
- 03 June 2012
Over the past two decades, industrial tree plantations increased their area in the global South about fourfold.
Indian farmer’s African safari
- Business World
- 02 June 2012
Karuturi, which has 300,000 ha in Ethiopia, is now targeting the DRC, Tanzania, Mozambique, Senegal and Sierra Leone.
Conflict of interest claims in China farmland deal
- ABC
- 01 June 2012
There are unconfirmed reports that former Labor prime minister Bob Hawke is representing a Shanghai-based company wanting to farm all 15,000 hectares of the land being developed as part of the Ord irrigation project in Western Australia.
Los Grobo says Brazil expansion to spur revenue
- Reuters
- 01 June 2012
Los Grobo plans to expand its cultivation in Brazil to 90,000 hectares in the 2012/13 crop year from 60,000 hectares today.