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Insight Investments taps head of farmland team
- P&I
- 10 May 2016
Tom McKeon was most recently CEO of Hassad Australia, the Doha-based Qatar Investment Authority’s food and agribusiness subsidiary.
Pack your bags to cash in on China’s dairy demand
- Farm Weekly
- 10 May 2016
In partnership with Indonesian agribusiness Japfa and Cargill’s Black River, AustAsia has built five free stall dairy farms in the province of Shandong, plus another in Inner Mongolia, to milk 30,000 Holsteins in total.
New Zealand: Overseas Investment Office unsure who owns Onetai Station
- Stuff
- 10 May 2016
The 1317 hectare farm was sold in 2014, on the advice of the Overseas Investment Office, to Ceol & Muir, a company established with the help of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.
On Jokowi’s announcement to ban new oil palm permits, AGRA and APC reaffirm call to stop oil palm plantations
- APC
- 10 May 2016
Aliansi Gerakan Reforma Agraria and Asian Peasant Coalition welcome Indonesian President's announcement to ban new oil palm permits but reiterate call to stop oil palm plantations.
Karuturi boss laughs off sale of his flower farm, calls the business ‘air’
- Standard
- 10 May 2016
Ramakrishna Karuturi has mocked plans to sell off his Naivasha-based flower farm, saying the liquidation procedure will not affect his ownership of the land, which is held through separate subsidiaries.
China and Brazil in African agriculture
- World Development
- 10 May 2016
Special issue of World Development suggests a key feature of Brazilian and Chinese engagements in African agriculture is the role of state–business relations in shaping and steering development, suggesting new forms of developmentalism.
Philippines; Duterte open to lifting cap on foreign ownership of firms
- Rappler
- 09 May 2016
While Duterte intends to liberalize the entry of foreign investments in the country, he said he does not want to touch the constitutional limit on foreign land ownership.
Madagascar: Lettre ouverte du Collectif TANY au Premier Ministre
- Collectif TANY
- 09 May 2016
Un projet de loi sur les propriétés privées titrées en cours de discussion au niveau ministeriel contient un article qui cherche à donner les mêmes droits d’accès à la propriété foncière aux Malgaches et aux étrangers.
Capitalismo selvagem à brasileira
- Publica
- 09 May 2016
Empresas que se instalaram em Moçambique através de projetos exportados pelo Brasil avançam sobre as terras dos camponeses enquanto o país, em crise, se afasta dos programas de cooperação.
Unprecedented deforestation in old Herakles plantation, now under new management
- Mongabay
- 09 May 2016
The development of an oil palm plantation, which was thought to have been pretty much abandoned by the American company that ran it, has resumed in the Southwest Region of Cameroon, according to satellite data released by Greenpeace.
What price palm oil?
- BBC
- 09 May 2016
A group of community leaders from Colombia, Liberia, Indonesia and Peru have been raising awareness in Europe of the human and environmental impact of palm oil plantations on their communities. Radio interview with Ali Kaba of Liberia's Sustainable Development Institute.
La Socfin menace toujours les forêts africaines
- Greenpeace
- 09 May 2016
Des investigations récentes de Greenpeace montrent que les forêts camerounaises et libériennes sont elles aussi menacées par les activités de la Socfin.