• Inversión extranjera pone el ojo en el campo
    • El Tiempo
    • 14 January 2012

    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.

  • Singapore-based firm acquires 28.11% stake in AgriNurture
    • Business World
    • 02 January 2012

    Cargill's hedge fund acquires major stake in company acquiring plantations in Mindanao, the Philippines to produce rice, corn, banana and vegetables.

  • Cargill unit offers to buy 28% of AgriNurture
    • Manila Standard
    • 04 October 2011

    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.

  • BBC viewers' questions put to Cargill boss
    • BBC
    • 29 September 2011

    Cargill CEO says he's "concerned" about foreign farmland grabs and says "no company's big enough to be a police force onto itself".

  • Cargill supplier linked to violence and home demolition in Indonesia
    • RAN
    • 29 August 2011

    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.

  • Shut the gate: why cash-strapped landowners are selling the farm
    • SMH
    • 01 August 2011

    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".

  • Cargill unit Black River plans $400 mln Asian food fund
    • Reuters
    • 20 April 2011

    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.

  • The war on Africa’s family farmers
    • Pambazuka
    • 06 April 2011

    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.

  • Who's really buying the farm?
    • The Age
    • 06 Mar 2011

    Foreign investment in Australia's food chain is increasing at a rate that is causing concern, and not just for people on the land.

  • Concessional Funding Key to Unlock Africa’s Agriculture
    • World Bank
    • 29 January 2011

    Experts meeting at the World Bank in Washington, DC, discuss how best to assist African smallholder farmers to transition from subsistence to commercial farming.

  • Global land grabbing: Eroding food sovereignty
    • PAN AP
    • 14 January 2011

    Land deals, whether as direct purchases or long-term leases, are being brokered in poor countries by advanced capitalist countries and their TNCs

  • South America tops farmland investors' wish-list
    • Reuters
    • 10 November 2010

    Private equity and fund managers name South America a top place to buy, lease and manage agricultural lands for profit.

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