Farmers have urged the state government to establish a register that would list Victorian farms that have been bought by foreign owners. The call comes as concerns grow over the level of foreign ownership of Australian farms and over the control of productive food resources.
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".
Villagers vow to resist as wildlife vanishes and they are driven from their land to make way for water-thirsty crops.
- The Guardian
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02 July 2011
leading experts in Canadian farmland investment and agri-business investment will meet at the Canadian Farmland & Agri-Business Investment Seminar.
La Coalition pour l’avenir du Québec propose diverses mesures pour protéger les terres agricoles québécoises de la convoitise des investisseurs étrangers.
Investors are thinking big when it comes to farmland purchases, reports Andrew Shirley in Knight Frank's Wealth Report 2011
- Knight Frank
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02 June 2011
Brewster Kneen discusses what, in the West, is largely overlooked in discussions about land grabbing: how we conceptualize and think about land and our relationship to it.
Agricultural land is once again attracting global investors but the sector is far from risk free.
- Knight Frank
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27 April 2011
Foreign investors are buying large tracts of land in Southern Sudan that add up to an area larger than Rwanda, threatening food supplies and stability in the region.
Four months before South Sudan becomes an independant nation nine percent of the country has been targeted by investors, a Norwegian People's Aid report reveals.
Investors are buying Canadian agricultural land, betting that rising food prices, a ballooning global population and growing worldwide scarcities in farmland will mean a payoff for them.
Alberta pension fund pays $415 million for more than 1500 square miles of forest in Australia to be converted to timber plantations and agriculture.
- Dow Jones
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28 January 2011
