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Gulf Merchant Bank set to drive forward investment in Moroccan aquaculture industry
- AME info
- 30 January 2011
Gulf Merchant Bank launches aquaculture fund and acquires 400ha land concession.
Indian company given Oromia land twice the size of Singapore
- Jimma Times
- 30 January 2011
Chadha Agro Plc, one of India’s giant operators in agro business, is set to receive 100,000 ha of Oromian land (an area nearly twice the size of Singapore country) in addition to the 300,000 ha of land given to various other Indian investors recently.
Farmers eye fertile land in African countries
- TNN
- 29 January 2011
The lure of cheap land and the promise of making big money are making local farmers and NRIs invest in African countries like Liberia and Ethiopia, whose economies were wrecked by the civil wars.
Concessional Funding Key to Unlock Africa’s Agriculture
- World Bank
- 29 January 2011
Experts meeting at the World Bank in Washington, DC, discuss how best to assist African smallholder farmers to transition from subsistence to commercial farming.
[Viewpoint] Korea’s inflationary challenges
- Joong Ang Daily
- 29 January 2011
Building overseas food production bases, developing overseas food resources and vitalizing direct overseas transactions and diversification of import sources are crucial for Korea
Soros-backed Adecoagro raises $314 million in IPO
- Bloomberg
- 29 January 2011
Investing in Adecoagro is “a way to play the potential global shortage of food, especially in emerging markets,” says Francis Gaskins, president of IPOdesktop.com
Wikileaks: African leaders in Ethiopia land grab
- afrol News
- 28 January 2011
Several African leaders have bought lands in Ethiopia to develop agricultural projects or tourism resorts. They are let to bypass a 2007 ban on export of cereals, still in place for other investors.
Funds buy Great Southern land
- Dow Jones
- 28 January 2011
Alberta pension fund pays $415 million for more than 1500 square miles of forest in Australia to be converted to timber plantations and agriculture.
Malaysia’s ECER eyes GCC market
- Arab News
- 28 January 2011
The ECER has abundant land, which could fulfill the needs of Middle East countries that are looking for their food security program, says Malaysian official.
La Via Campesina at the World Social Forum in Dakar
- Via Campesina
- 28 January 2011
Stop land grabbing, defend food sovereignty and say no to violence against women farmers!
The 21st century goldrush – African arable land grabs
- Guardian
- 28 January 2011
Lester Brown from the Earth Policy Institute reveals how rich countries worried about their future food supplies – along with investment banks – are buying up arable land in Africa, yet are failing to deliver any benefits to local people.
How land grabs in Africa could herald a new dystopian age of hunger
- Guardian
- 28 January 2011
Africa is up for sale by the acre to the highest bidder. But how can rice exports from Ethiopia to Saudi Arabia be justified?