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Hedge funds muck in down on the farm
- Financial Times
- 25 April 2008
Hedge funds and investment banks are swapping their Gucci for gumboots as they bet on rising food prices by buying farms.
Lee to Seek Steady Grain Supply From Overseas
- Korea Times
- 16 April 2008
President Lee Myung-bak said that one possible way to secure grain supplies from overseas would be to sign a long-term land lease. The President specifically pointed to the Russian Far East.
Wikileaks: Mozambique's agricultural sector ripe for US investment
- Wikileaks
- 18 Mar 2008
"Only 12 percent of Mozambique's arable land is under cultivation. Mozambique's agriculture minister is actively courting international agricultural investment," reports the US Embassy in Maputo
Funds swoop on farmland as commodities boom
- Reuters
- 13 Mar 2008
Soaring agricultural prices, growing demand for biofuels and the growth of the Chinese and Indian economies are leading top global investment banks to buy farmland in a bid to embrace the physical commodities market.
Cresud busca US$ 300 millones para expandirse en la región
- La Nación
- 05 Mar 2008
La firma de IRSA ampliará su capital para llegar a Uruguay, Paraguay y Bolivia
Food Crisis Looming Over Korea
- Chosun Libo
- 04 Mar 2008
Japan has steadily prepared for food security by buying 12 million hectares of croplands around the world, from Southeast Asia and China to South America. By comparison, the amount of Korea’s overseas croplands is negligible.
Chinese workers seek fortunes in Africa
- The Telegraph
- 17 February 2008
Liu Jianjun, a former Chinese government official who runs the Baoding-Africa business council, has contracts to farm 10,000 acres in Uganda, to build a cornflour processing factory in Kenya and for a farm project in the Ivory Coast.
A new national strategy for agriculture
- Oxford Business Group
- 12 January 2008
The Moroccan government has pursued a strategy of leasing state-farms previously under the management of Société de Développement Agricole (SODEA). A large number of bids were made by agricultural businesses from France, Egypt, Spain and the United Arab Emirates.
Ingleby Company in New Zealand for the long haul
- Country Wide
- 04 January 2008
Since 1999, The Ingleby Company has bought about 17 farms. The company runs just under 20,000ha of land with 130,000 stock units, most of which are sheep and cattle.
Indian firms scout for farms overseas
- The Hindu Business Line
- 02 December 2007
The Solvent Extraction Association, currently visiting South America, will come up with a techno-feasibility report on carrying out contract farming by Indian companies either in Argentina, Paraguay or Uruguay.
China's long march to Africa
- BBC
- 29 November 2007
“There’s no harm in allowing [Chinese] farmers to leave the country to become farm owners [in Africa],” the head of China’s Export-Import Bank, Li Ruogu, says.
Libya Eyes Cultivating Wheat in Ukraine
- Alarab Online
- 21 November 2007
Libya plans to invest in the production of wheat in Ukraine on a surface of 100.000 hectares, in order to provide for the totality of its requirements