India

Agriculture Outsourcing: South America/Latin America farmland investing
- YouTube
- 21 July 2009
Corporate pitch from Uruguay-based private equity firm Allied Venture for Indian investors to go into outsourced agriculture in Latin America
Agriculture Outsourcing: South America/Latin America farmland investing
- YouTube
- 21 July 2009
Allied Venture promo video for Indian investors
Is a recolonization of Africa underway?
- New Vision
- 14 July 2009
I wonder how many other behind-the-scenes transactions are currently underway in the continent that will only be announced when the deals have been signed and perhaps money has exchanged hands.
India joins 'neocolonial' rush for Africa's land and labour
- The Telegraph
- 28 June 2009
India, once the colonial jewel of Britain's empire, has been accused of 'neo-colonialism' in Africa where its business people have joined a race with China, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere to buy up agricultural estates and take advantage of cheap labour.
Food pirates: Indian firms buying farm land in Africa
- Ground Reality
- 26 June 2009
I wonder why the people (and more importantly the political leaders and elite) of the African and Latin American countries are not opposing and driving these companies out from within their national borders. The reason is simple. The rich and elite of every country is the real beneficiary of the process of globalisation.
Other countries could grow their own crops here
- ABC
- 25 June 2009
Greg Mason, from the Queensland Department of Primary Industries, says countries and regions facing 'peak water' like China, India and the Arab states are looking to solve food shortages by growing crops in places like the Ukraine and Australia.
India cultivates Africa
- Mail Today
- 25 June 2009
Indian firms have signed land deals in Ethiopia, Kenya and Madagascar to produce a range of food crops for export to India.
KS Oils acquires additional 14,000 ha of land
- KSNR
- 24 June 2009
KS Oils acquires additional 14,000 HA land for oil palm plantations in Indonesia, owning a total of 34,000 ha.
India outsources agriculture
- Down to Earth
- 17 June 2009
Codes of conduct don’t work, said Devinder Sharma of Forum for Biotechnology and Food Security, Delhi. “It is unethical to grab land in other countries; it will lead to food crisis as investor countries will grow food for profit.”
Interview: India Yes Bank sees 1st Africa farm project start 2011
- Reuters
- 15 June 2009
Yes Bank expects a $150 million Tanzanian rice and wheat project to reach full production by 2011, the first of several large African farms it is funding. "We are looking at a more inclusive model wherein the local farmers can be organised into a producers company, and they would be the suppliers to the processing facility. It's predominantly not to acquire huge tracts of land."
Indian Company launches agro-investment project in Gambella
- Ethiopian News Agency
- 08 June 2009
A multi-million birr investment project by Karuturi Global Limited, an Indian company in Etang Special Woreda of Gambella State was launched on Saturday.
The new kulaks
- Financial Express
- 03 June 2009
Capitalists of the world are cornering land in emerging markets. India need not wait until international agencies start lecturing us on the need for “reforms” (and FDI) in agriculture.