Sentences with phrase «biggest agribusiness group»
Wilmar International, a Singapore - based company that bills itself as Asia's biggest agribusiness group, has come under fire for several of its plantation projects in Nigeria.
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goFArm, which manages a development portfolio of over 21,000 ha of prime agricultural land in the Riverina and Sunraysia is run by agribusiness investor Liam Lenaghan and chaired by Robert Costa, co-founder of the country's biggest fresh fruit and veg group.
Conflicts over mining, hydropower and agribusiness are the biggest drivers of deaths, with most victims from indigenous groups and rural communities.
The reason Gibbs cites the transition from most of forest clearing being done by small - scale farmers (as was the case in the 80s) to agribusiness (from the 1990s onward), is that «Big agribusiness tends to be more responsive to global economic signals as well as pressure campaigns from advocacy organizations and consumer groups than individual small farmers.»