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Global X files for Global X Farmland & Timberland ETF
- ETF Daily News
- 01 August 2011
Global X has filed paperwork with the United States' Securities and Exchange Commission for a “Global X Farmland & Timberland ETF.”
Punjab farmers to grow multiple crops in Ethiopia
- Business Standard
- 01 August 2011
Karuturi Global is hiring Punjabi farmers to leave India and farm its large holdings in Ethiopia
Corporate farming: Fair trade? Well, not really because we’re giving our land away
- Express Tribune
- 01 August 2011
Experts urged the Sindh government to consider a few policies, which included supporting small growers, giving state land to landless women and men haris and an immediate end to leasing out land to other countries.
Nation feeds Gulf's appetite for ownership
- SMH
- 01 August 2011
Hassad plans to spend $US350 million ($318 million) in Australia to secure food supplies for Qatar, which imports 95 per cent of its food.
Shut the gate: why cash-strapped landowners are selling the farm
- SMH
- 01 August 2011
Australians do realise the value of what is being sold, a land agent and rural property specialist said, "but their hands are tied because they can't raise the money".
Govt cautioned against giving foreigners large pieces of land
- The Guardian
- 01 August 2011
“This notion of saying that we have enough land is untrue, as the land we have now does not only belongs to us but also to our future generations,” Dr Damian Gabagambi of Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania says.
Green revolution or Green plunder?
- Guardian
- 31 July 2011
While Serengeti Advisers and their partners as well as the Tanzanian government thought theirs was a move to attract Foreign Direct Investment in commercial farming, to critics the deal is another land grabbing done by the pimps of globalization.
Italian firm buys high country stations
- Otago Daily Times
- 31 July 2011
The Italian-based Reda Holding SpA owns 16,660 ha in the Waitaki Valley
Land tenure and international investments in agriculture
- HLPE
- 31 July 2011
The Committee on World Food Security at its meeting of October 2010 requested the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition to conduct a study on land tenure and international investments in agriculture and to present the findings at its next session in October 2011
Foreign investors sow deep roots in food bowl
- SMH
- 30 July 2011
Community agitation grows as farmers feel threatened in New South Wales
China rejects claims of Africa land buy-ups
- SAPA
- 29 July 2011
China rejected claims by a German official that it has been buying up land in the drought-ravaged Horn of Africa, saying the allegations are "completely unfounded" and have "ulterior motives".
Russia: Kellner’s promised land – and soil
- CzechPosition.com
- 29 July 2011
PPF entry into Russian farming via Rav Agro-Pro acquisition affirms Czech billionaire Petr Kellner’s confidence in his position there