Video about the US agribusiness Dominion Farms in Kenya.
Foreign ownership of Australian land and agribusiness will soon be monitored.
Vast tracts of farmland in poor nations being gobbled up by foreign investors could undermine small farmers' rights and food security in the host countries
President says a Gulf State company is expected to invest $80-100 million in the country's agriculture in the near future, citing a 400,000 ha rice project.
- All About Feed
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30 Mar 2011
Protocol portant accord de principe de la mise à la disposition pour Fanaye à Senethanol (Italie) d'une surface cultivable de 20,000ha destiné à la culture de patates doueces et à la production d'éthanol et d'aliments de bétails.
Ethiopia is on sale. Everybody is getting a piece of her. For next to nothing. The land vultures have been swooping down on Gambella from all parts of the world.
The move comes after two fact-finding missions led by the foreign secretary last year found farming in the so-called dark continent "exceedingly lucrative" for Bangladeshi investors.
- Financial Express
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30 Mar 2011
First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration Iryna Akimova said that foreign nationals should be eligible for the privatization of agricultural land in Ukraine.
President Jose Mujica said that private land sales will be honoured but under no conditions will sovereign funds or foreign countries be allowed to purchase land in Uruguay as is happening in Africa.
In Nigeria today, foreign acquisition of arable agriculture land has become a hot and widely discuss issue.
Higher land prices are here to stay; an additional inflationary tailwind for the already rising cost of food.
- Wall Street Journal
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29 Mar 2011
Lee Woo-chang set up a farming company called KomerCN in Cambodia in December 2008 to grow corn for export to Korea on 21 ha. He now wants to expand the farm to 13,000 ha.
- Joong Ang Daily
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28 Mar 2011