Brazil

Fonterra in Brazil land purchase
- NZ Herald
- 12 May 2011
The New Zealand dairy giant has signed a deal to buy an 850 hectare farm in the Brazilian state of Goias.
Curbing land purchases by foreign investors
- IPS
- 11 May 2011
The governments of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay are drafting laws to curb acquisition by foreigners of extensive tracts of their fertile agricultural land.
Brasil à venda. E há quem compre
- ALAI
- 10 May 2011
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!
Freno a la invasión extranjera
- IPS
- 10 May 2011
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 mulls leasing farmland to foreigners
- Reuters
- 09 May 2011
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.
Arrendamento de terra pode ser opção para estrangeiro, diz Rossi
- O Globo
- 09 May 2011
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.
Galtere targets $1 Billion in Brazil rice, Australia beef assets
- Bloomberg
- 04 May 2011
“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?”
Abu Dhabi's Mubadala studies billions of investment in Brazil
- The National
- 02 May 2011
Company's chief operating officer expected to return next month to look at agriculture investments.
Brazil farmers back foreign land buy ban
- Progressive Farmer
- 29 April 2011
"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.
How the land lies
- Knight Frank
- 27 April 2011
Agricultural land is once again attracting global investors but the sector is far from risk free.
Farm private investment seen doubling in two years
- Reuters
- 26 April 2011
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.
Brasil en riesgo de contrarreforma agraria
- IPS
- 22 April 2011
"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)