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Young Je Ha, presidente da AT Korean Agro-Fisheries, visitou fazendas de milho e soja na região Oeste da Bahia (Fonte: Novoeste)
Robert Louis-Dreyfus, ex-CEO do Louis-Dreyfus Group, faleceu em 2009, legando o reinado da fortuna da família para ...
Both Abraaj and Citadel have been actively pursuing investments in farmland in recent years. In 2009, the Financial Times reported the Abraaj had acquired over 300,000 ha of land in Pakistan. Citadel owns an 11,000 cow dairy farm in Egypt (see photo above) and 200,000 ha of farmland in Sudan. (Photo: Ronald de Hommel)
Del Monte's cantaloupe melon production facilities in the Sierra de las Minas, Guatemala – most of which are exported to the United States (Thomas Kern)
Foreign firms are snapping up farming land in Africa, a new report saysIn a report, the Oakland Institute said hedge funds and other foreign firms had acquired large swathes of African land, often without proper contracts.
In India, the state forcibly acquires land from farmers and hands it over to private speculators, real estate corporations, mining companies and leisure industries [EPA]
Addax Bioenergy, società svizzera che produce canna da zucchero in Sierra Leone (su gentile concessione di Yvan Maillard Ardenti, Pain Pour le Prochain)
US universities are reportedly using endowment funds to make deals that may force thousands from their land in Africa. (Photo: Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Beidahuang State Farms Business Trade Group officials visiting Río Negro (Photo: Actualidad Río Negro)
Moçambique é o segundo país no continente em apropriação de terra arável por investimentos estrangeiros
Bruce Rastetter, CEO of Pharos Ag and co-founder of AgriSol Energy, pictured with former New York City mayor and potential Republican candidate for the 2012 presidential election Rudy Giuliani. The Oakland Institute says that Rastetter's company AgriSol is in the process of acquiring 325,000 hectares of land in Tanzania populated by Burundian refugees who have been farming the land since 1972. (Photo: AP)
Dr. Zeremariam Fre of the University College London spoke about the land grabbing phenomenon, with specific references to Ethiopia, Sudan and Eritrea. Photo: Yoshie Oya/UNU-IAS
“We looked about a year ago ... about a deal together in farming in Australia,” says Mohamed al-Husseiny, Aabar chief executive, about partnering with Glencore to buy assets.
Le rassemblement contre la conférence «Jetfin GRO 2011» s'est déroulé hier devant le Grand Hôtel Kempinski à Genève. (Photo: Laurent Guiraud)
The CEO of Calyx Agro, Axel Hinsch, describes his fund as "a vehicle that allows investors to participate in the South American land play.” (Above: worker cutting sugar cane in Brazil.)
Deforestation in Caazapa, Paraguay. Calyx Agro operates a 2,800 ha farm in the area. (Photo: Alex Noce)
Robert Louis-Dreyfus, former CEO of the Louis-Dreyfus Group, died in 2009, leaving the reins over the family fortune to his widow Margarita Louis-Dreyfus.
