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COFCO buys 51% of Nidera
- World Grain
- 24 Mar 2014
COFCO's purchase of Dutch trader and farm operator Nidera is the largest ever international acquisition in the history of the Chinese agricultural industry.
The best long-term real estate investment: Farmland
- CNBC
- 24 Mar 2014
As in many emerging markets, farmland investing in Bulgaria is essentially a consolidation play.
Ucrania, ni europea ni rusa… china
- El País
- 24 Mar 2014
China acaba de sorprender al mundo al comprar un 5 % de Ucrania para usos agrícolas, superficie equivalente a Galicia, y que supone el 9 % de toda su tierra agraria útil.
Olam boosts rice farming
- This Day
- 24 Mar 2014
Olam's Nigerian subsidiary has completed arrangements to expand its rice plantation in Nasarawa State from 3,000 ha to 6,000 ha.
Conférence de presse de la Convergence malienne contre les accaparements de terres
- CMAT
- 24 Mar 2014
La CMAT a décidé d’initier une marche suivie d’un sit-in dénommé « Village des Sans terres » à Bamako à partir du 31 mars 2014 qui mobilisera l’ensemble des zones urbaines, péri-urbaines et rurales touchées par l'accaparement des terres au Mali
Philippines: Malaysian firm to turn land around Maguindanao massacre site into plantation
- Inquirer
- 22 Mar 2014
Univex will invest $10 million to convert lands around the site of the 2009 Maguindanao massacre into a banana plantation and agricultural complex
Odebrecht em tribunal por violações em Angola
- Voz da América
- 22 Mar 2014
Trabalhadores acusam companhia de retê-los em Malanje em péssimas condições de trabalho e habitação.
Por qué China compró Nidera
- Perfil
- 21 Mar 2014
China ha decidido abandonar su plan de autosuficiencia en el abastecimiento de soja incrementando la importación de este y otros granos.
Las guerras agrarias ya han empezado
- Palabre-ando
- 21 Mar 2014
Permítanme que, con tres informaciones, les exponga un nuevo y poco conocido argumento para explicar (o ayudar a explicar) la desestabilización de Ucrania y los acontecimientos derivados.
Is Liberia's president going cold on the palm oil industry?
- Reuters
- 21 Mar 2014
Does a recent decision by Sirleaf signal a change of heart for a leader who has signed 30% of Liberia’s land over to foreign investors - with 1.5 million acres for palm oil companies?
Governing the land rush in Africa
- The Broker
- 21 Mar 2014
CIFOR scientist argues that failure to accept large-scale farmland investments as a new economic reality in Africa will hold back the development of effective institutional and regulatory frameworks.
Three companies to be split-off from Lithuanian Invalda
- Baltic Course
- 21 Mar 2014
17 companies owned by NASDAQ traded Invalda LT, holding about 3,000 ha to be transferred to new company INVL Baltic Farmland.
African govts give away continent’s natural heritage, acre by acre
- East African
- 21 Mar 2014
A look at recent mega land deals in Africa reveals a trend dubbed a ‘dangerous grab’ of the resource upon which the continent’s poor people depend for survival.
Les peuples des forêts réclament leurs droits
- VOA
- 20 Mar 2014
Des représentants des peuples des forêts, peuples autochtones et communautés locales de tous les continents se sont retrouvés à Palangka Raya en Indonésie pour faire le point des menaces pesant sur leur environnement.
Brazilian multinationals accused of 'slave labour' in Angola
- Africa Review
- 19 Mar 2014
Odebrecht notified by the Brazilian Public ministry of allegations of slave labour conditions at its 32,000 ha Biocom sugarcane operation.