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Angola: Minister calls for more Chinese investment
- LUSA
- 01 September 2022
Angola wants more Chinese investors to grow agricultural products in the African country that can be exported to China, says Angola’s minister for economy and planning.
Farming out: China's overseas food security quest
- NIkkei
- 01 September 2022
As the Ukraine war sparks shortages, China looks to invest abroad to secure food supplies
“The rich are untouchable”: Uganda’s struggles to protect its wetlands
- African Arguments
- 01 September 2022
Around the same time security forces were destroying markets and shops on Lubigi, two flower farms belonging to Uganda’s richest man, Sudhir Ruparelia, could be seen extending their reach into wetlands outside Kampala.
Sonoma County slates $125 million for agriculture fund
- Pensions & Investments
- 31 August 2022
The $3.4 billion pension fund of Sonoma County, California committed up to $125 million to Fiera Comox Global Agricultural Fund to complement its investment in UBS AgriVest Farmland Fund
Veripath Farmland Partners’ R-Fund acquires 4,588 acres in Saskatchewan
- GAI
- 31 August 2022
Calgary-based Veripath has rapidly grown, operating on the conviction that global demand for agricultural products make farmland – particularly Canadian farmland a prime long-term investment.
Zeder Investments unbundles Zeder Africa due to troublesome Zambian operation
- Food Business Africa
- 30 August 2022
The Zambian farming company, backed by Norfund and the World Bank's IFC, has been sold by South Africa's Zeder Investments to a group of businessmen.
Dangote says new sugar project will cut imports by 40%
- Premium Times
- 30 August 2022
The Nigerian firm says it is embarking on Phase II of its sugar project, which will cover over 100,000 hectares to make the sugar plant, the largest in Africa.
Okowa inspects N25bn oil palm plantation
- This Day
- 28 August 2022
The project, which is a joint venture between Northsworthy Farms, and Allied Industries Limited and Nigeria's Delta State Government had planted over 250,000 oil palm trees in over 1,400 hectares of land.
Lao villagers told to vacate their farms by month’s end
- RFA
- 25 August 2022
About 100 families from two villages in southern Laos were forced to give up 190 hectares of farmland to a company that will build a cassava processing plant after Lao soldiers threatened them if they did not comply.
RSPO verification mission shows Socfin certifications are unjustified
- FoE Netherlands
- 25 August 2022
Organisations call upon the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil to undo certifications to Socfin, Africa's biggest plantation company.
Town Chief remanded over theft at SOCFIN
- Politico Sierra Leone
- 24 August 2022
The Town Chief of Henai Village in Malen Chiefdom was remanded at the Pujehun Correctional Centre in Southern Sierra Leone after he was accused of stealing palm kernel from the plantation of SOCFIN Agricultural Company.
US Senator introduces bill to prohibit Chinese investment in agribusiness
- Krishi Jagran
- 22 August 2022
Senator Rounds noted on his website that this new legislation will also bar investment in US agribusiness from Russia, Iran, and North Korea.