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DEG: EUR 25m for food production in Paraguay
- DEG
- 31 January 2013
DEG's investment will be used to acquire 5,000 hectares of agricultural land, expanding irrigation systems, cultivating rice for the first time and producing timber sustainably.
The financial risks of insecure land tenure: an investment view
- RRI
- 31 January 2013
The potential for bottom-line financial damage from insecure land tenure risk range from massively increased operating costs – as much as 29 times over a normal baseline scenario, according to our modeling – to outright abandonment of an up-and-running operation.
No land grabbing by Indian firms in Africa: Centre
- The Hindu
- 31 January 2013
Faced with reports of land grabbing by Indian companies in some African countries, especially Ethiopia, the government says the Indian companies have taken land on lease as per rules of the country concerned.
Investors running wild on land: the threats posed by international investment agreements
- Traidcraft
- 30 January 2013
A recent briefing note by Traidcraft discusses the threats posed by current regulation of foreign investment in land highlighting that food security and other human rights concerns often come at the cost of excessive protection of foreign investors’ rights.
Accord stratégique pour Louis Dreyfus à Abidjan
- Africa Intelligence
- 29 January 2013
La patronne du groupe Louis Dreyfus doit profiter de son séjour en Côte d'Ivoire pour signer un accord avec le ministre de l'agriculture autorisant la mise à disposition, par l'Etat ivoirien, de 100 000 hectares de terres au nord du pays.
Study: Israel ranks among world's most harmful land-grabbers
- Haaretz
- 29 January 2013
Wealthy countries, and private companies from those countries, have been increasingly buying up land in poor areas for their own economic purposes, a new study says. And Israel turns out to be one of the leading land grabbers.
Report gives national view of land concessions in Lao PDR
- SDC
- 29 January 2013
"There is currently more land granted in concessions, than there is land being cultivated for rice."
New IIED publications on agricultural investments in Mali and Zambia
- IIED
- 29 January 2013
Two new reports by IIED look at agricultural investments and land acquisitions in Mali Ans Zambia.
Indonesia’s Salim Group enters Brazil
- Jakarta Globe
- 29 January 2013
Indofood Sukses Makmur is planning to acquire a 50 percent stake in a plantation company in Brazil through its subsidiary Indofood Agri Resources, as the company expands its sugar plantation business.
Analysis of the discourse and background of the ProSAVANA programme in Mozambique – focusing on Japan’s role
- 28 January 2013
Report on Japan's role in the ProSAVANA programme in Mozambique by Sayaka Funada Classen.
Investors wary of going back to the land
- Offshore Corporate
- 27 January 2013
Agriculture has scarred some big hitters in the investment world. Many are now wary of a sector that is at the mercy of fickle weather, political risk and quixotic governments.
Chinese firms and Gulf sheiks are snatching up farmland worldwide. Why?
- Washington Post
- 26 January 2013
A slew of countries and investors — from Chinese state corporations to Gulf sheiks to Wall Street firms — have started buying up farmland overseas, in an apparent attempt to acquire as much precious soil and water as possible.