Una noticia de la semana pasada daba cuenta de la inversión creciente de grandes multinacionales en compra de tierras en Colombia. Específicamente señalaba la compra de 90.000 hectáreas por la empresa norteamericana Cargill, la mayor comercializadora del mundo de materias primas agrícolas.
Hace algunos meses, Cargill emprendió en la altillanura colombiana un proyecto de producción de cereales que involucra 90.000 hectáreas en el departamento del Meta, y ya invirtió 100.000 millones de pesos en la compra de tierras.
Cargill's hedge fund acquires major stake in company acquiring plantations in Mindanao, the Philippines to produce rice, corn, banana and vegetables.
Black River Capital Partners Fund (Food) LP, a fund managed by the private equity arm of US agribusiness and trading giant Cargill, has offered to acquire 28.11 percent of Philippine fruit and vegetable grower AgriNurture Inc. for $30.4 million.
Cargill CEO says he's "concerned" about foreign farmland grabs and says "no company's big enough to be a police force onto itself".
Newly uncovered customs data unearthed by Rainforest Action Network links agriculture trading giant Cargill to recent acts of violence, intimidation and home demolition against Indigenous villagers on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Australians do realise the value of what is being sold, a land agent and rural property specialist said, "but their hands are tied because they can't raise the money".
Black River's investment pipeline includes a Chinese pork producer and distributor, a duck farming firm in northern China, a fish producer in Costa Rica and a frozen fish processor in Singapore.
Corporations and bankers do not believe in farming as a way of life; they believe in farming as a very profitable business that they control. Their goal is not to improve family farming in Africa, but to eradicate it.
Foreign investment in Australia's food chain is increasing at a rate that is causing concern, and not just for people on the land.
Experts meeting at the World Bank in Washington, DC, discuss how best to assist African smallholder farmers to transition from subsistence to commercial farming.
Land deals, whether as direct purchases or long-term leases, are being brokered in poor countries by advanced capitalist countries and their TNCs
