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Sime Darby Plantation eyes African markets
- The Star
- 18 September 2009
Sime Darby Plantation Sdn Bhd is exploring opportunities in other African countries besides Liberia for its palm oil business expansion.
Timbercorp sells almond assets for $128m to Olam
- The Age
- 18 September 2009
The Australian almond plantations of agribusiness group Timbercorp have been sold to Singapore-based multinational food giant Olam International for $128 million.
Corporate farming
- Dawn
- 18 September 2009
During Pervez Musharraf’s time, Beijing had proposed that it be leased 2,000 acres of land for a period of 10 to 15 years with the agreement that China would make technological and financial investments in the land, invest in newer forms of seeds and other products and leave the new infrastructure to the state or the owners after the termination of the contract.
Glencore, China's CIC in cooperation pact
- Reuters
- 17 September 2009
China's $200 billion sovereign wealth fund has added privately-held commodities trader Glencore International AG, which also controls around 300,000 ha of farmland, to its roster of approved investment partners as it deepens its access to global raw material markets, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters
Land grabs - Another scramble for Africa
- Fahamu
- 17 September 2009
Civil society, including African farmers unions, need to educate local people that such land deals are not in their interests, however couched in 'win-win' terminology they appear to be.
UN sees rise in land grab for food security
- Financial Times
- 17 September 2009
Unctad’s World Investment Report is the first detailed analysis of FDI flows behind the so-called farmland grab trend, in which countries such as Saudi Arabia or South Korea invest in overseas plots.
Convention between Republic of Cameroon and SGSOC
- Cameroon Veritas
- 17 September 2009
Contract between the government of Cameroon and SGSOC granting the company control over 73,000 ha in Cameroon for 99 years, for the production of plam oil. SGSOC is a subsidiary of Herakles Farms, owned by US venture capital firm HeraklesCapital.
Going gaga over grain
- Dawn
- 17 September 2009
Last May, while Pakistan’s military was waging its offensive in Swat, Islamabad officials were simultaneously launching another offensive in the Gulf: a charm offensive to secure investment in Pakistani farmland.
The business of land
- The News
- 17 September 2009
It is unfortunate that even as deals that involve land which should belong to the people of Pakistan are struck, there has been so little public debate about the plan. We need to be informed of what is planned. Protests need too to be mobilized. In the prevailing political environment of Pakistan, the people who stand to lose the most have almost no spokesmen.
Farm sector seen drawing investment to Africa
- Reuters
- 17 September 2009
Growing demand for farm output is driving African agriculture and the sector could lead the continent's push for investment, an agribusiness manager for South Africa's Absa bank said on Thursday.
COPAGEN preliminary declaration on family agriculture and land grabbing in Africa
- COPAGEN
- 16 September 2009
COPAGEN strongly recommends peasant organisations along with other sectors of the population to mobilise and to challenge the land grab transactions already made and, from the standpoint of food sovereignty, to discuss how to safeguard this land that is their heritage.
Mozambique : Terms of authorization of project "Emvest Limpopo Project (Matuba Farm)"
- The Oakland Institute
- 16 September 2009
Provisional authorization for land exploitation (1 000 ha) in the Gaza province and Terms of authorization of project "Emvest Limpopo Project (Matuba Farm)"