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Sierra Express | 26 Aug 2015
China has confirmed the continuation of a $1.2 billion rubber and rice investment deal in Sierra Leone, covering 135,000 hectares, that was signed in 2012. |
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Bangkok Post | 25 Aug 2015
A leader of a group trying to seize a 1,400-rai oil palm plantation run by Thai Pattana Co, a joint operation of a foreign investor and his Thai business partner, was shot dead while leaving the farm on motorcycle. |
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Macauhub | 25 Aug 2015
Cattle ranching company Beira Boi Limitada seeks to eventually establish a cashew plantation on 500 hectares to ensure a supply of raw material to feed a nut processing facility in Sofala Province. |
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Agfunder News | 25 Aug 2015
Map Of Agriculture says it is well positioned to serve the comparative farming system benchmarking needs of farmland investors. |
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Act Now | 24 Aug 2015
PNG’s Minister for Trade, Commerce and Industry sign a Heads of Agreement that would make KLK an equity partner in development of 37,000 ha oil palm project in East Sepik’s Special agriculture Economic Zone(SEZ). |
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World Ark | 23 Aug 2015
As climate change, population growth and environmental damage shrink the amount of arable land on the planet, wealthier countries and corporations look to developing countries for land. |
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Farm Weekly | 21 Aug 2015
First State Super follows US and Canadian super funds with major investment in Australian almond plantations. |
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unquote | 20 Aug 2015
A substantial payout could be in store for private equity firms willing to take on the risk and plough capital into the farming business. |
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Reuters | 20 Aug 2015
Investors have poured tens of millions of dollars into a war torn landscape in northern Uganda now dotted with tracts of maize, rice, sunflower, sesame and commercial forests. |
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AVCJ | 19 Aug 2015
If Black Soil Capital Partners gets its way, the fields of Heilongjiang will be consolidated under long-term leases from farmers, giving way to a modern, industrialized US-style business model. |
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RFA | 18 Aug 2015
Hearing in the US will examine how land grabbing has significantly impacted the lives of Filipinos and Cambodians and the involvement of U.S. officials charged with promoting development in these countries. |
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Mongabay | 18 Aug 2015
Norway’s central bank is divesting the country’s $870 billion pension fund of its holdings in four Asian multinationals for palm oil in Southeast Asia. POSCO and Daewoo were excluded for the activities in Merauke, Indonesia’s Papua province. |
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Reuters | 17 Aug 2015
Global food giants and international NGOs have drafted a framework to prevent land grabs just as hedge funds, companies and plantation owners race to acquire new territory. |
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Deal Street Asia | 17 Aug 2015
Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (FGV) aims to enter into a definitive agreement for its proposed acquisition of Indonesian palm oil company PT Eagle High Plantations Tbk by October 31 this year. |
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HRW | 15 Aug 2015
Arrests in Karen State target those assisting farmers fighting land grabs, says Human Rights Watch. |
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Equal Times | 14 Aug 2015
The so-called ‘Blood Sugar crisis’ may be over. But representatives from the Clean Sugar campaign their there is no end in sight for their problems. |
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MSNBC | 13 Aug 2015
"We have a decent pipeline of anything between 200 and 400 million dollars in opportunities in Africa," says Craig Chambers, Old Mutual Investment Group’s Director of Strategic Projects. |
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US NCP | 28 Jul 2015
This Final Statement concludes the Specific Instance submitted on June 13, 2013 by CED and RELUFA with regards to the alleged conduct of Herakles Farms’ affiliate SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SGSOC) in Cameroon. |
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Independent | 27 Mar 2015
An Oxford University boxing blue, a former Shell chairman, and an ex-SAS commanding officer are looking to raise $26.6m to build the biggest food company in Ebola-scarred Sierra Leone. |
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