Saudi and UK investors will travel to the Philippines in October to discuss "the possibility of food production in southern Philippines, with the government providing them the needed land".
Agreement covers 82,500 acres of land for palm oil production.
The UK-based EPO has almost 170,000 ha of land suitable for sustainable crude palm oil cultivation and its aim is to be a 100,000 ha producer with output totalling 250,000 tonnes per annum.
- Proactive Investors
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28 July 2010
Le projet -- un partenariat entre Illovo Sugar, entreprise sud africaine, et le gouvernement malien -- concerne l'aménagement d'une zone irriguée de 14,132 ha pour la création des plantations de la canne à sucre
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22 July 2010
Après l'achat de 241 000 tonnes de fèves de cacao, Anthony Ward veut aller à la conquête des terres arables d’Afrique.
- Les Afriques
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20 July 2010
Many Ukrainians now prefer to lease their land rather than work it themselves.
- The Guardian
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20 July 2010
Anthony "Chocfinger" Ward, the commodities trader whose group Armajaro Holdings has just cornered the cocoa market, is planning his next move into food.
Nombre d'Ukrainiens préfèrent louer leurs droits fonciers plutôt que d'exploiter leur parcelle.
Sir Bob Geldof has warned UK pension funds they are missing out on the “last great investment opportunity left” by not placing money in Africa -- including its arable lands.
- Financial Times
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20 June 2010
Farmland, whose $5,000bn value equates to about 7-10% of the value of world equity markets, could be worth 15-25% of share values by 2020, Hardman & Co analysts say
"The ONLY place where agriculture businesses and investors come together to discuss farmland investment" says the promoters
The Journal of Peasant Studies, in collaboration with the Land Deal Politics Initiative, is organizing an international academic workshop on ‘Global Land Grabbing’ to be held on 6-8 April 2011 at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
