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Reuters | 18 May 2016
State-backed Russia Direct Investment Fund announced plans on Wednesday to sign an agreement with Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Group on joint investments in the construction of a $1 billion milk and dairy complex in the Ryazan region of Russia. |
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GRAIN | 18 May 2016
Les paysannes en Afrique de l’Ouest travaillent pour protéger la production traditionnelle d’huile de palme face aux accaparements de terres et à l'impact destructeur des plantations industrielles de palmiers à huile. |
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GRAIN | 18 May 2016
New video shows how rural women in West Africa are working to protect traditional palm oil production in the face of land grabbing by industrial oil palm plantations. |
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Fiji Times | 18 May 2016
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Qingdao in China is looking into Fiji's agriculture sector as a potential area of investment. |
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Vientiane Times | 18 May 2016
Saravan provincial authorities in Laos approve a 200 ha land concession to a Korean company which will grow custard apple and moringa for export |
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Reuters | 17 May 2016
Thomson Reuters Foundation today launched Place (Property, Land, Access, Connections, Empowerment), an innovative platform to boost coverage of land and property rights, one of the most under-reported issues worldwide. |
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AFR | 16 May 2016
Australia's cattle station sector is set to reach more than $1 billion-worth of deals in less than a year, with the two biggest sources of investment being the controversial areas of foreign investment and superannuation. |
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Agrimoney | 16 May 2016
Land prices are up across Brazil, with prices in the Northeast up 7.5% over the past 12 month, BrasilAgro said. |
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China File | 16 May 2016
Based on new research in four African countries, Professor Ian Scoones says far from being on a land-grabbing spree in Africa, Chinese immigrant farmers and the deployment of Chinese agricultural technology and training programmes are having a positive impact. |
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| 16 May 2016
We convey our firm solidarity with the people of Kampung Dadap in their struggle against the “PT Tangerang International City” (TIC) – a government backed massive reclamation project in Kampung Dadap, Tangerang Regency in Indonesia, and express our serious concern on the repression reportedly being committed against them. |
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The Conversation | 13 May 2016
Many see the voluntary guidelines as an important opportunity to address wider issues of land inequality, historical dispossession and agrarian change, rather than simply as a route to “responsible investment” |
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Mongabay | 13 May 2016
The company defends its Peruvian plantations amid uproar over alleged environmental and social impacts. |
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Namibian | 13 May 2016
Russian billionaire Rashid Sardarov, who bought large tracts of land in Namibia, is among the long−serving clients of Mossack Fonseca, a disgraced law firm known for aiding the rich to hide their wealth in tax havens |
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Reuters | 12 May 2016
Kazakhstan's government, facing a wave of unrest over farmland privatisation plans, invited some opponents of the reform to join a commission set up on Thursday to review it. |
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Guardian | 12 May 2016
Companies co-founded and run by Phil Edmonds, founder of leading African farmland investor Agriterra, paid “bribes” to African officials and have bought assets owned by secretive offshore structures, a campaign group has claimed. |
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Australian | 06 May 2016
Chinese retailing giant the Dashang Group has snapped up one of Australia’s oldest herds of Wagyu cattle and a second highly productive farm in the prestigious upper Hunter Valley.
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Post | 25 Apr 2016
Agriterra, an Africa focussed agricultural company, announces that Phil Edmonds has stepped down as chairman of the company. |
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