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15 minutes with .... the founders of Perita Capital Management
- GAI
- 01 May 2020
Boston-based Peritia Capital Management invests in hard assets or agribusiness companies via debt, equity, or joint-venture structures.
Legalização do grande roubo de terras públicas no Brasil: agronegócio, desmatamento e o caldeirão de futuras pandemias
- GRAIN
- 30 April 2020
Esta ampliação da apropriação privada sobre os espaços públicos de proteção socioambiental pode intensificar ainda mais a vulnerabilidade social diante de epidemias e intensificar crises sanitárias.
Russia's VTB finds partners for growth of grain business
- Reuters
- 30 April 2020
The largest operator of Russia’s grain export infrastructure and a major grain trader sells stakes to Agronova, which develops farm projects in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, and the Marathon Group financial company
FirstFarms A/S signs Head of Terms about sale of 1,675 hectares of land in West Romania
- First Farms
- 30 April 2020
The Danish company's West Romania operations constitute 5 percent of FirstFarms’ total turnover and the company says it has not delivered satisfactory operating results the latest years.
L’impact nocif du secteur de l’huile de palme une fois de plus dévoilé, dans une investigation sur des investissements - soit disant - “éthiques”
- FIAN Belgium
- 30 April 2020
Salaires en-dessous du minimum légal, pollution de cours d’eau, travail d’enfants dans les plantations. Voici quelques-unes des révélations, incriminant le groupe SOCFIN, divulguées dans l’émission #Investigation
Olam secures a US$176 million term loan from IFC and JICA
- Olam
- 30 April 2020
The funds will be used for the procurement of specific agri-commodities from smallholder farmers in Vietnam, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea and Uganda as well as the expansion of Olam’s cocoa processing facility in Indonesia.
Banques : sur les routes cachées de notre argent
- RTBF
- 29 April 2020
Enquête de la télévision belge sur les plantations Socfin au Cameroun
We demand justice and safety for workers on Socfin’s rubber/oil palm plantations during the Covid-19 pandemic
- ARD et al
- 29 April 2020
Letter from African community organisations to SOCFIN regarding the unsafe conditions for plantation workers and neighbouring communities during the current Covid-19 pandemic.
Zelensky enacts law on farmland sale in Ukraine from July 2021
- UNIAN
- 29 April 2020
The law allows for the phasing in of private farmland sales in Ukraine
Saudi Arabia makes first wheat purchase from overseas farmland investment
- Reuters
- 27 April 2020
Saudi Arabia’s state grain buyer SAGO on Monday said it bought 60,000 tonnes of Ukraine wheat from investment firm SALIC, marking its first purchase from agricultural investments overseas aimed at enhancing the country’s food security.
Minister of Agriculture jeopardises relationship between Sierra Leone and Israel.
- NightWatchSL
- 22 April 2020
Sierra Leone’s Minister of Agriculture has blocked a large-scale poultry farm project covering 10,000 acres promoted by two Israeli companies citing “critical commercial risks” that need to be resolved.
Brasil: Em meio à pandemia de Covid-19, MP que pretende legalizar o maior roubo de terras públicas da história do país pode ser votada na Câmara
- Carta de Belem
- 21 April 2020
Em tempos de crise sanitária e econômica devido à pandemia do coronavírus, um novo massacre contra o povo brasileiro está prestes a ser votado na Câmara Federal: a Medida Provisória 910/19, que pretende anistiar crimes de invasão de terra pública praticados até o final de 2018, favorecendo o desmatamento ilegal.
UAE's Al Dahra signs crop deal with Bulgaria-based AJD Agro
- Reuters
- 21 April 2020
Abu Dhabi-based agriculture firm Al Dahra Holding has signed a crop supply deal with Bulgarian agribusiness group AJD Agro Ltd,
Ukraine: Opening the land market
- Lexology
- 20 April 2020
On 31 March 2020, the Ukrainian Parliament adopted the new Law No. 2178-10, which opens the Ukrainian agricultural land market. This article breaks down the new law involves.
Japfa to sell stake in China dairy business to Meiji for $254m
- Foodbev
- 17 April 2020
Japfa’s AustAsia operates seven farms in China with roughly 80,000 cows and is a major supplier of raw milk to Meiji’s dairy business.