Brazil

The New Zealand dairy giant has signed a deal to buy an 850 hectare farm in the Brazilian state of Goias.

The governments of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay are drafting laws to curb acquisition by foreigners of extensive tracts of their fertile agricultural land.

Em 2010, a NAI Commercial Properties, transnacional do ramo imobiliário, presente em 55 países, adquiriu no Brasil, para estrangeiros, 30 fazendas nos estados de GO, MT, SP, PR, BA e TO. Ao todo, 96 mil hectares!

Los gobiernos de Argentina, Brasil y Uruguay comienzan a proponer leyes para poner coto a la avidez extranjera por sus codiciadas y extensas tierras aptas para la producción de alimentos.

Brazil may start leasing farm land to foreigners to find a way around new legal restrictions on land sales and attract more foreign investment, the agriculture minister said.

O Brasil pode adotar uma política de arrendar terras agrícolas para estrangeiros, no que seria uma forma de driblar restrições legais à venda de propriedades para empresas do exterior e fomentar investimentos no setor, afirmou o ministro da Agricultura, Wagner Rossi.

“We are looking at rice farmlands as it is the main food crop,” said Renatto Barbieri, Galtere's portfolio manager. “Have you heard of anyone dying because of not eating sugar or corn or soybeans?”

Company's chief operating officer expected to return next month to look at agriculture investments.

"Brazil has the land and the technology to produce 50 percent of the world's (exported) food in the future. It's right that we stop and debate how best to exploit this opportunity to create wealth and jobs for Brazilians," said Fabio de Salles Meirelles, vice president of CNA, Brazil's largest farmer group.

Agricultural land is once again attracting global investors but the sector is far from risk free.

Inflows of private capital in agriculture worldwide are expected to more than double to around $5 billion to $7 billion in two years as rising food prices spur investments in farm land and production facilities.

"La crisis internacional del capitalismo tuvo un efecto contrario en Brasil puesto que, para protegerse, los capitalistas internacionales corrieron a Brasil para invertir en la compra de tierras y en proyectos energéticos," dijo João Pedro Stédile, dirigente del Movimiento de los Trabajadores Rurales Sin Tierra (MST)