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Olam to spend $250 million on Gabon palm-oil project
- Bloomberg
- 23 January 2012
Funding will be used to develop 50,000 hectares in the central African nation and is part of $250 million in total spending
New Hope and Marubeni join for overseas expansion
- All About Feed
- 23 January 2012
China's biggest manufacturer of animal feed and Japan's biggest grain trader sign a letter of intent to expand in Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and South America.
Bonduelle acquires CECAB's Russian ops
- Just Food
- 23 January 2012
Bonduelle is set to acquire the Russian operations of French rival CECAB, including its 6000-hectare 'kolkhoze' farm.
High connections: David Miliband joins Pakistani private equity firm
- Express Tribune
- 21 January 2012
Indus Basin Holdings, a private equity firm incorporated in Mauritius that invests in rice production and dairy farms in Pakistan, has managed to get Britain’s former foreign secretary David Miliband on board as a senior adviser.
A Nobel laureate’s problem at home
- New York Times
- 20 January 2012
Unbeknown to many outside Liberia, Mrs. Johnson Sirleaf’s government may now be sowing the seeds of future conflict by handing over huge tracts of land to foreign investors and dispossessing rural Liberians.
Sierra Leone : Agric Ministry receives $1.2bn investment for rice and rubber productions
- Awoko
- 20 January 2012
One of China’s biggest agriculture investment companies, the Hainan Co Ltd for International Economic Corporation, have announced that they have approved the sum of US$ 1,231,986,200 for the production of rubber and rice on 40,000 ha of land in Sierra Leone
Human Rights Watch flags Indian agri-company Karuturi’s Ethiopia operations
- Livemint
- 20 January 2012
“There is no villagization programme,” Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi, founder of Karuturi Global, told Mint via telephone. “This is a completely jaundiced western vision. They assume anything in Africa has to be done by the whites and the Chinese and Indians should have businesses only in their own countries.”
Fay group threatens judicial review if Chinese get nod to buy farms
- Stuff
- 20 January 2012
The inner workings of one of the NZ Government's most secret agencies, the Overseas Investment Office, could be blown open if it consents to a Chinese company buying the big Crafar dairy farming estate.
Senyerang Farmers successfully get back their land, says APC
- Asian Peasant Coalition
- 20 January 2012
The Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) and the Aliansi Gerakan Reforma Agraria (AGRA) strongly expresses it support to the Senyerang farmers for successfully taking back their land at Senyerang village in Tanjung Barat regency.
ETF may stand for exchange-traded farmland
- Financial Post
- 19 January 2012
Canada could soon get its first exchange-traded farmland management stock.
West Africa: The downside of foreign land acquisitions
- IRIN
- 19 January 2012
Population growth and rising consumption by a minority of people around the world are fuelling global land acquisitions and Africa is a “prime target”, says the International Land Coalition.
Foreign ownership report a whitewash: Cobb
- Stock & Land
- 19 January 2012
A new report from ABARES which indicates little change in the level of foreign ownership of Australian farm land since the 1980s has been described as a "whitewash" by Shadow Agriculture and Food Security Minister, John Cobb.