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UNCTAD report makes the case for development-led globalization
- UNCTAD
- 07 February 2012
The report outlines elements of a Global New Deal including developing principles for responsible agricultural investment.
Behind African ‘land grabs’ by US institutions and universities
- WBEZ
- 06 February 2012
Entities such as USAID, the World Bank, and major U.S. universities are often the architects behind these land deals, which promise benefits for Africans but can often deliver food insecurity and displacement.
Australia: Foreign-owned farmland prediction
- Latrobe Valley Express
- 06 February 2012
Half of Gippsland's farmland could be foreign owned in a decade if current interest in the region continues on the same trajectory, two industry leaders have predicted.
PPF to set up farmland and timberland panel
- Professional Pensions
- 06 February 2012
The £9bn Pension Protection Fund is set to add specialist farmland and timberland fund managers to its investment manager panel to assist its alternative investment programme.
Funds focus on farming fortunes
- Financial News
- 06 February 2012
Farming is a sector that Insight Investment, a UK asset manager best known for its expertise in investing in corporate bonds and government debt, has begun to target.
Madhvani wins Amuru land case
- Monitor
- 05 February 2012
Thousands of residents of Amuru District community, in Uganda, could soon lose their land after Gulu High Court ruled that over 40,000 hectares be given to Madhvani Group of companies to grow sugarcane.
Kwara’s N70b rice deal sparks row
- Nigerian Compass
- 04 February 2012
A few hours after it was announced with fanfare, the N70 billion agriculture deal between Nigeria's Kwara State government and a Spanish consortium is generating controversy.
The land of Stronach: Canadian businessman has become Florida county's third-largest land holder
- Ocala
- 04 February 2012
The Canadian–based businessman has increased his Marion County land holdings in the past two years nearly sixfold, making him the largest private property owner in the county with 29,000 acres.
Tillers seek probe of $300 M land lease deal with Bahrain
- KMP
- 03 February 2012
The militant peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) today called on the House of Representatives’ committees on agrarian reform and agriculture to conduct a probe and shoot down a $300-million land lease deal the government entered into with Bahrain.
Don't sell off our farms
- Stock & Land
- 02 February 2012
On his farm at Coleambally, NSW, John Ward admits he is feeling emotional about how foreign investment into Australian agricultural land has been handled.
China should build grain processing plants overseas, says official
- Dow Jones
- 02 February 2012
China's pursuit of agricultural land overseas should be supplemented by building more grain processing facilities as part of the country's push for global expansion in the farming sector, says Chen Xiwen, general director of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group.
China plants bitter seeds in South American farmland
- Washington Times
- 02 February 2012
China increasingly is buying farmland and agricultural companies in South America to feed its ever-growing population.