Après l’arrestation de Benjamin Dummai, l’ex directeur de Senhuile au Sénégal, M. Giovanni Tampieri, président du groupe actionnaire majoritaire dans le projet Senhuile, a accepté de répondre à nos questions, par écrit.
- Financial Afrik
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30 May 2014
L’homme d’affaires algérien revient du Gabon où les responsables de Libreville ont mis à sa disposition des terres agricoles et des matières premières pour la pétrochimie.
Investisseurs chinois, russes, fonds de pension: de plus en plus de terres agricoles passent aux mains d'investisseurs et échappent aux agriculteurs français, faisant courir un risque pour la souveraineté alimentaire, s'alarment les Safer.
Panel presentation on agribusiness in Africa at the New York Forum AFRICA 2014 in Gabon, with representatives of the Pan-African Agriculture and Agribusiness Consortium, Amatheon Agri Holding N.V. and the Government of Gabon.
Tim Hornibrook, head of Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management, obtained sensitive details about a competitor's profits, fee structure and returns by posing as a wealthy investor.
- Stock Journal
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28 May 2014
Special agriculture business leases are nothing but a “scam” used by logging companies and will be outlawed immediately, Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says.
Small farmers grow 70% of world's food but the land which they control is shrinking as mega-farms squeeze them onto less than 25% of the world's available farmland, says new analysis by GRAIN
Le 21 mai dernier un contingent de 315 membres de l’armée et de la police ainsi que 40 agents de sécurité privée ont participé à l’expulsion violente des exploitations rurales Trinidad et El Despertar
This report identifies broad trends in farmland investing with the potential to affect countries in the Global North and Global South
Equatorial Palm Oil Ltd risks closure as member of Grand Bassa County legislative caucus lobbies to ensure that the operations of the company be halted due to allegations of land grabs.
"The institutional ‘herd’ will eventually find agricultural investment,' delegates told at the Global AgInvesting Conference in New York.
A Mauritius sugarcane firm Omnicane is set to invest $250 million into sugarcane plantations in northern Ghana
- Africa Report
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27 May 2014
The US public and private sectors are among the leading drivers of a global drive to snap up usable – and often in-use – agricultural land, in what critics say remains a steadily increasing epidemic of “land-grabbing.”
- Mintpress News
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27 May 2014
Greenpeace report reveals how US-based Herakles Farms colluded with government officials in Cameroon to illegally export timber that itself was illegally felled in order to establish a palm oil plantation.
Global corporations are increasingly influencing development policy, resulting in partnership agreements like the New Alliance for Food and Nutrition Security that grow corporate profits while endangering the livelihoods of small-scale farmers.