Under the terms of the agreement, Bunge will acquire 35% of PT Bumiraya Investindo, a subsidiary of TPS Food, which has 25,000 ha in palm oil concessions in Indonesia.
- PR Newswire
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02 November 2011
Pension funds and other corporate owners have spent only a tiny fraction of the billions of dollars they could invest in farmland, but they are definitely kicking the tires on potential purchases.
Radio programme investigates housing conditions for workers on Sime Darby's plantations project in Liberia.
Foreign interests into the South Sudan pie have managed to secure some 5.74 million hectares of land for agribusiness concerns namely agriculture, forestry, biofuels, eco-tourism and carbon trading.
- Norwegian Aid
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31 October 2011
Karuturi Agro Products Plc has refuted reports that the company subleased farm land to Indian farmers, claiming instead that the Indian farmers were hired solely for consultancy services.
- Addis Fortune
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31 October 2011
The adoption by the UN Committee on World Food Security of international guidelines to regulate land grabs has been pushed to next year
It concerns 5000 acres of the Somawathiya National Park in Sri Lanka being cleared for a large-scale banana plantation by an international agribusiness company, Dole.
Fanaye Diéry, commune rurale située dans la vallée du fleuve Sénégal, a été le théâtre d’affrontements meurtriers le 26 octobre.
- Slate Afrique
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28 October 2011
The National Coordination of Farming Organizations in Mali and the Via Campesina invite the press to cover the first international farmers’ conference whose objective is to strengthen the fight against global land grabs.
- CNOP/Via Campesina
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28 October 2011
Ethiopia's state project to make it into one of the world's top sugar producers requires the resettling of semi-nomadic herders in permanent villages, where they can work on sugar plantations.
Land grabs essentially allow other regions of the world to export their food insecurity to Africa, or for Western investors to profit from a decade-long trend of steadily increasing global food prices.
- Al Jazeera
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27 October 2011
A disputed biofuels project in northern Senegal which triggered violent clashes between villagers claimed its second victim Thursday after a man died from his injuries.