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What you should know about Saudi investment in African farmland
- HowWeMadeItInAfrica
- 04 July 2012
Almost 70% of all concluded and planned Saudi investments in offshore agriculture are in Africa, according to a new report from Standard Bank
Stop the sugar industry from bleeding Cambodian farmers by taking their land
- Clean Sugar Campaign
- 03 July 2012
Statement by Cambodia Clean Sugar Campaign
The SR Fund offers long term SIPP investors a multitude of benefits
- SR Fund
- 03 July 2012
The new Luxembourg-registered Sustainable Resources Fund boasts anticipated potential returns of at least 15% per annum on forestry, agriculture, biomass and land.
European Report on Development 2011/2012
- ERD Report
- 03 July 2012
The European Report on Development 2011/12 covered the nexus between water, energy and land, with several commissioned papers on land grabbing.
New claims of rights abuses in World Bank-funded 'land grabs'
- Bretton Woods Project
- 03 July 2012
As the World Bank held its Annual Conference on Land and Poverty in April, campaigners accused it once again of facilitating and legitimising 'land grabs' that harm local communities.
Growing Africa's land
- This is Africa
- 02 July 2012
"Africa will be more food insecure if these investments go to other parts of the world and Africa has to turn to those places to buy food," according to Dr Ousmane Badiane of IFPRI
Indians decry move to open up retail to foreign investment
- Global Times
- 02 July 2012
Many in India's eastern state of West Bengal worry the central government's decision to allow foreign direct investment in retail trade would incur loss of jobs even farmers' land.
How African politicians gave away $100bn of land
- The Africa Report
- 02 July 2012
With minimal consultation, governments and local authorities are signing away huge tracts of land for lease on the cheap. Now communities are raising their voices in opposition to these projects that bring little local development.
$10m Argentine farming deal mulled
- China Daily
- 30 June 2012
Chongqing Grain Group Co Ltd, one of China's largest State-owned grain companies, is in talks with Molino Canuelas SA, a major agribusiness group in Argentina, about joint investments totaling $10 million in a soybean farm and dairy farms in the South American country.
Activists raise red flag over Tanzania land deal
- East African
- 30 June 2012
The US-based Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement say they want senior government officials involved in the deal investigated and prosecuted for accepting a deal that will be detrimental to the welfare of Tanzanians.
Kiwis' cautious OS investment approach
- Stock & Land
- 29 June 2012
While Australians fret about how much farmland is being snapped up by foreign investors, our New Zealand cousins have adopted a no-nonsense policy on rural land sales to off-shore investors.
New Zealand welcomes foreign farmers
- The Land
- 29 June 2012
Public opinion is generally cool on overseas investment, especially large land sales to corporate interests where the owners are unlikely to work in the country themselves.