• Oil palm production: Ministerial committee inspects sites in SW
    • Cameroon Online
    • 13 February 2015

    An inter-ministerial fact-finding committee from Yaounde has inspected the palm nurseries and other investment sites of the Sithe Global Sustainable Oils Cameroon Limited (SC-SOC) located in the South West Region of Cameroon.

  • Land ownership just the start in foreign investment debate
    • The Conversation
    • 13 February 2015

    The foreign ownership debate in Australia needs to evolve to – or be merged with – a broader debate about the future of the agricultural sector.

  • Qatari businessmen to visit Ukraine in May to explore investment opportunities
    • Gulf Times
    • 13 February 2015

    There are a number of “pending agreements” between the two countries aimed to build grain silos and lease of agriculture land in Ukraine to Qatari investors.

  • Sen Huile licencie plus de 80 employés !
    • Actunet
    • 12 February 2015

    Cette multinationale établie à Dakar depuis le 26 juillet 2011, avec une mission “d’obtenir des concessions dans un espace de 20 000 ha à Gnith pour la production de graine de tournesol destinées à l’exportation vers l’Italie”, vient de se séparer de 83 de ses employés pour des “motifs économiques” .

  • Zuma speaks out on foreign land owners #SONA2015
    • Times Live
    • 12 February 2015

    Foreigners will not be allowed to own land in South Africa, President Jacob Zuma said during his state-of-the-nation address to Parliament on Thursday. He said they would instead be eligible for long-term leases.

  • Romania: El Dorado for farmland dealers
    • Nine O'Clock
    • 12 February 2015

    The land market in Romania is left to chance, any occasional businessman being free to trade arable or forest land as long as they have a good lawyer or are up to paying a bribe to some civil servant.

  • New Hope targets Moxey dairy
    • Financial Review
    • 12 February 2015

    China's largest privately owned agribusiness company and the Perich family from Sydney are looking to buy a $100 million dairy in western New South Wales.

  • Polish farmers to continue protests against new land sale laws
    • Fresh Fruit Portal
    • 12 February 2015

    "The core of the protest is about preventing the sale of Polish agricultural land that might happen from 2016 if the current law continues. This will expose Polish land to be bought by foreign buyers and will threaten small farmers."

  • Cancellation of flawed Papua New Guinea land leases halted
    • ABC
    • 12 February 2015

    The cancellation of controversial flawed land leases in Papua New Guinea has been halted, leaving traditional landowners unsure of when they will get their land back.

  • Amatheon Agri expands grain production
    • The Herald
    • 12 February 2015

    Amatheon Agri, a Berlin based agribusiness and farming company, is set to embark on a countrywide expansion of grain production in Zimbabawe after a successful pilot maize farming project

  • Foreign farm buys above $15m will need FIRB approval
    • The Australian
    • 11 February 2015

    Australia's new threshold on foreign investment in agriculture would be cumulative, so someone with a $14m investment would have to seek approval before trying to purchase an ­additional $1m property.

  • How much of Australia’s farmland is owned by foreign companies?
    • Guardian
    • 11 February 2015

    The Coalition has increased scrutiny of foreign purchases of rural land, but how much is currently owned overseas and are the concerns valid?

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