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Land grabs: Trampling human rights and land in Uganda
- International Rivers
- 23 Mar 2012
In Uganda it is the top leadership that initiates the land grabs for global land thieves. Whole communities are being displaced and scattered.
Chinese group expresses interest in WA milk
- Farm Weekly
- 23 Mar 2012
Hangzhou Wahaha Group Co, China's biggest beverage producer, hopes to invest about $220 million in dairy farms in Western Australia in order to expand its import channels for milk.
Citadel touts African infrastructure projects, defends agribusiness investment
- Africa Assets
- 23 Mar 2012
Egypt’s Citadel Capital has been busy defending its work in Africa, such as in South Sudan where it has taken a number of measures to ensure its agribusiness project benefits the local community and doesn’t step on small farmer toes.
Investors observe World Water Day 2012 with focus on land grabs
- Sustainability Investment News
- 22 Mar 2012
The focus of this year's World Water Day is on water and food security, and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility launches a campaign to educate institutional investors on the impacts of large acquisitions of farmland in the global South.
South Sudan: Concord doing good for country
- Nairobi Star
- 21 Mar 2012
To date, Citadel Capital has invested US$ 25 million in the Concord farm project, which makes us by far one of the largest investors in South Sudan outside the oil industry.
Egypt's Citadel to grow crops in South Sudan
- Reuters
- 21 Mar 2012
A unit of Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital plans to cultivate up to 40,000 acres of farmland in South Sudan to sell staple foods such as maize in the newly-independent nation.
Trigon lifts landbank near to 200,000 hectares
- Agrimoney
- 21 Mar 2012
Trigon Agri, in its second acquisition this month , raised its Black Sea landbank nearly to 200,000 hectares, in a deal the farm operator said would "substantially upgrade the quality" of its Russian portfolio.
Sierra Leone: Land deals beginning to stir discontent
- IRIN
- 20 Mar 2012
As more and more companies flock to the country to lease large tracts of land, murmurs of protest and unrest are cropping up among local populations who are unhappy with the way the deals are done.
Selling fertile land to foreign firms to create food insecurity
- Daily Times
- 20 Mar 2012
The Pakistan government should table a bill in the parliament before proposing further selling of agricultural lands in order to have a legitimate regulatory mechanism in place, says economist.
Heffernan slams policy on foreign farm buys
- SMH
- 20 Mar 2012
Australian Liberal senator Bill Heffernan has described as "bullshit" his party's proposed policy for more scrutiny of overseas companies buying into Australian agriculture because it ignored the real threat posed by foreign government-owned funds buying up farmland.
India: 900m hectares of arable land wasted in Africa
- Daily Trust
- 19 Mar 2012
About 900 million hectares of arable land are not properly utilised for agriculture in Africa's rich soil, says Indian Minister of Industry, Commerce and Textile, Mr Anand Sharma.
Sudan sugar maker plans Hong Kong IPO
- Reuters
- 18 Mar 2012
Kenana, Sudan's biggest sugar company, is planning to raise $200 million listing a quarter of its shares in Hong Kong in December, to finance new projects.