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Iowa State receives criticism for involvement in potential land grabbing
- Iowa State Daily
- 06 December 2011
Iowa State University has landed in some hot water regarding its involvement with an international land development project in Tanzania.
GRAIN llama a terminar con el acaparamiento de tierras en el Parlamento sueco
- GRAIN
- 06 December 2011
GRAIN recibió el “Premio Nobel Alternativo” y aprovechó la oportunidad para exigir que se detenga de inmediato el acaparamiento de tierras y que se le restituyan sus tierras a las comunidades locales.
Ethiopia: Saudi Star gets ex-State Minister as new chief
- 05 December 2011
Saudi Star Agricultural Development Plc, perhaps the biggest agro industry firm in Ethiopia, has added a big name to its roaster: Fikru Desalegn, former state minister for Capacity Building,
Palm oil 'at dawn of new era of expansion'
- Agrimoney
- 05 December 2011
The palm oil industry is "at the dawn of a new period of expansion" in part thanks to increasing interest from food groups, which are moving into production to ensure supplies of an increasingly important commodity.
New solutions needed to improve food security in Gulf
- Arab News
- 05 December 2011
Under agreements with exporting countries in Africa, Europe and East Asia, GCC countries can cultivate large areas, which will pave the way for stabilizing food prices on the one hand, and reducing inflation on the other.
British combing for cotton
- The Land
- 05 December 2011
UK-based investors are planning a $400 million rural land fund to buy cotton and wheat properties in eastern Australia.
Ramakrishna Karuturi: Man behind Karuturi Global - world's largest producer of cut roses
- Economic Times
- 04 December 2011
“We have finalised deals with four big agro companies in India for joint ventures for different crops that we are looking at growing – rice, maize, oil palm and sugarcane,” says Karuturi.
UAE to cultivate agri goods in Pakistan
- Daily Times
- 03 December 2011
United Arab Emirates is interested to cultivate agricultural goods in Pakistan and is also ready to make small dams for irrigation on the condition agricultural goods from Pakistan should not be stopped exporting to UAE.
Africa's farmland in demand: 'Is there a better place than this?'
- Toronto Star
- 03 December 2011
The 19th century had the Great Scramble for Africa, when developed nations raced for several decades to lay claim to new territories and their riches. This century may yet be known as the Great Selloff of Africa.
Huge interest in US and farmland investment
- Ag Professional
- 02 December 2011
"There's a lot of money chasing the grow-out of agricultural land right now," says Gary Thien of Thien Farm Management.
Olam to set up US$49m rice farming and milling facility in Nigeria
- Business Times
- 02 December 2011
The 6,000 hectare farm in Nasarawa, one of Nigeria's main rice growing belts, is expected to yield 36,000 tonnes of milled rice annually at its peak.
Nyéléni, Mali : A global alliance against land grabbing
- FIAN
- 02 December 2011
Report from FIAN on the international conference against land grabbing which took place in Mali in November 2011