The corporate take-over of African food security
      There is a new, but deceptive, foreign drive to end hunger in Africa through large-scale agribusiness.
      • Pambazuka
      • 08 November 2012
      The future of finance is in... farming. For real.
      A new report by PRI offers some really useful information for investors interested in accessing farmland opportunities, with five case studies of funds making farmland investments.
      • Institutional Investor
      • 08 November 2012
      The faces of land grabbing: from Laos to Romania
      Romanian authorities have a history of giving up fertile agricultural land to foreign companies or Romanian “fat-cats”, all to the detriment of small scale, diverse, economically sustainable and environmentally sound agriculture.
      • Arc2020
      • 08 November 2012
      Land grabbing, foreign investment and Nigerian agriculture
      By virtue of Dominion Farms’ responsibility to train young students in farming techniques in Kenya and then absorb them into the enterprise or equip them for owning their own enterprises, this is not your typical land-grabbing project, writes Tukeni Obasi
      • Business Day
      • 08 November 2012
      International civil society warns nations of ‘resource grabbing’
      The Asia-Europe People’s Forum has urged the 51 state leaders of the Asia-Europe Meeting Summit to protect the tenure rights of small-scale food producers and to ensure a more equitable governance of natural resources.
      • Inquirer
      • 08 November 2012
      Business models for foreign investment in agriculture in Laos
      Study estimates that foreign investors have acquired between 10–14 per cent of the total agricultural land in Laos.
      • IISD
      • 07 November 2012
      Disease costs FirstFarms last hope of dodging loss
      The eastern Europe farm operator ditched its last hopes of avoiding a return into the red after disease at its dairy herd added to the pressure on profits from poor weather for its arable operations.
      • Agrimoney
      • 07 November 2012
      Foreign ownership register consultations begin
      A consultation paper on Australia's foreign ownership register for agricultural land is now available for public comment.
      • The Land
      • 06 November 2012
      How Africa could feed the world
      Former Nigerian president Obasanjo calls on African Union to develop a framework for managing foreign investment in agriculture, and says governments should consider a moratorium on large-scale land deals pending legislation to protect smallholder farmers.
      • CNN
      • 06 November 2012
      China buys Japan water rights on two-decade land price slump
      A two-decade slump in Japan’s real estate prices, an incomplete land registry and lax rules on buying forest with water rights are attracting investors led by China.
      • Bloomberg
      • 06 November 2012
      Ekosem to sell E60m in bonds to support land deals
      Ekosem-Agrar stoked a run of debt issuance by corporates by unveiling plans for raising E60m through bonds to support its growth plans, including expansion of its sizeable Russian land bank.
      • Agrimoney
      • 05 November 2012
      Colombia seeks to regulate foreigners’ land acquisitions: Tiempo
      Colombia’s executive branch will send a bill to Congress regulating foreigners’ farmland acquisitions, El Tiempo said, citing an interview with Agriculture Minister Juan Camilo Restrepo.
      • Bloomberg
      • 04 November 2012

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