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Abu Dhabi moves to secure food supply
- Zawya.com
- 17 November 2010
Abu Dhabi Sources will be going up against well established trading houses, including Glencore, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus.
Agri-Vie, with Herman Marais
- ABN
- 17 November 2010
Agri-Vie, a private equity fund focused on food and agribusiness investments - including farmland - in subSaharan Africa, closed its first fund with participation from Kellogg Foundation, NorFund, IFC and AfDB.
Farmers want register of overseas buyers of Oz farmland & water licences
- ABC
- 16 November 2010
New South Wales Farmers Association is calling for a register of all overseas purchases of Australian agricultural land and water licenses.
Sierra Leone: Koroma gives 50,000 acres to CHICASON
- Concord Times
- 15 November 2010
"I will give [Nigeria's] CHICASON not less than 50,000 acres of land anywhere in the country," says the President of Sierra Leone.
Olam invests US$1.5b in Gabon
- Channel News
- 15 November 2010
Olam CEO says his company utilises political risk insurance from the World Bank and other sources for its agri-investments in Africa.
Olam to invest USD236 mln in palm oil plantations in Gabon
- Olam
- 15 November 2010
Gabon committs a land bank of 300,000 hectares to Olam for palm and rubber plantation development.
Foreign land grab on Aussie farms and brands to secure local food supply
- Daily Telegraph
- 15 November 2010
More than $9 billion of prized agricultural assets have been sold to offshore interests in the past two years alone.
Karuturi Global eyes East African markets for crops grown on Ethiopia land
- Bloomberg
- 12 November 2010
Karuturi has an agreement to provide 40,000 tons of rice to neighboring Djibouti.
Aquino urged to review farmlands lease to foreign investors
- Inquirer
- 12 November 2010
Groups in the Philippines call on the government to review agreements with foreign investors allowing a lease of agricultural lands for food and biofuel production.
The investor takeover of farmland
- Deutsche Welle
- 12 November 2010
Investors have found a new target -- farmland in eastern Germany. As a result, the price of agricultural land there has soared by up to 100 percent. Many farmers are concerned about their survival after their current lease agreements run out in two years.
S.Korea to farm Tanzania site in early 2011
- Reuters
- 11 November 2010
Tanzania expects South Korea to begin farming 15,000 hectares of land in the east African country early next year for food production and processing, a senior official said on Thursday.
Land Grabbing and Right to Food Workshop
- NGO Forum
- 11 November 2010
Proceedings of the November 2010 workshop bringing together a wide range of NGO representatives from around Cambodia and overseas.