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    • Biggest Buffett targets seen spanning Deere to Henkel
      • Bloomberg
      • 08 May 2012

      Warren Buffett said yesterday that over the next 100 years, farmland will beat gold, which surged to a record in 2011 after increasing more than sixfold in the past decade.

    • Hassad Foods and 250,000 ha of Australian farmland
      • All About Feed
      • 07 May 2012

      Hassad Foods' farmland purchases in Australia are guided by a risk minimising strategy. The lands are distributed across different climes and water regimes over a wide geographic area.

    • Cambodia suspends land consessions after unrest
      • AP
      • 07 May 2012

      Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen temporarily suspended new land concessions to private companies in an effort to ease political pressure over an issue that has triggered social unrest and occasional violence.

    • Assessing New Zealand’s food security
      • Epoch Times
      • 07 May 2012

      New Zealand is one of many countries upon whom China’s entrepreneurs have cast their eyes for opportunities to buy farmland, mineral and power resources to shore up China’s looming food shortage and resource-hungry economy.

    • A new report on peasant and farmer mobilization against land grabbing
      • Via Campesina
      • 07 May 2012

      The National Coordination of Peasant Organizations (CNOP) of Mali and La Via Campesina have today published a new report on the mobilization of social movements against land grabbing.

    • Great resource rush
      • Zawya
      • 07 May 2012

      Saudi Arabia and the UAE are among the top four countries on a massive investment spree to acquire agricultural resources.

    • Ukraine’s foreign investors and the lifting of farmland moratorium
      • Frishberg.com
      • 07 May 2012

      Ukraine has long been called “the bread-basket of Europe,” and for one excellent reason: its fertile, black soil. The estimated value of this treasure is anywhere between 40 and 80 billion dollars. The only problem with investing in such an obviously profitable business was an artificial bureaucratic/legislative barrier commonly known as the “moratorium on alienation of farm land” (the “Moratorium”).

    • Museveni angry over NGO report on land grabbing
      • The Independent
      • 06 May 2012

      Two international organisations, Oxfam and Uganda Land Alliance (ULA), face de-registration for what government calls inciting violence over land issues.

    • World Bank under attack for aiding land grabs in Uganda
      • The Independent
      • 06 May 2012

      BIDCO project wreaks environmental havoc, hunger, and human rights abuse in Kalangala

    • Hedge-fund millionaire Diggle targets $150 million for farm fund
      • Bloomberg
      • 03 May 2012

      Vulpes Investment Management, the Singapore company set up by hedge-fund manager Stephen Diggle, plans to raise as much as $150 million to invest in farms in Africa and Eastern Europe.

    • Sierra Leone: Popular resistance and corporate landgrabbing in Sierra Leone
      • Pambazuka
      • 03 May 2012

      A new report from the Oakland Institute examines a controversial land investment deal in Sierra Leone. Pambazuka News caught up with its Policy Director to find out why the report has attracted so much attention.

    • Pakistan offers mega projects
      • Khaleej Times
      • 03 May 2012

      “We are offering investment opportunities in agriculture farming, livestock, grain-storage project as well as in infrastructure development projects,” says chairman of the Sindh Board of Investment

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