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Food security - Unlocking Africa’s vast agricultural potential
- AfDB
- 25 October 2010
In lead up to Tunis Conference, African Development Bank calls for reforms to African land laws to facilitate private investment in agriculture.
Land rent contractual agreement made between Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Karuturi Agro Products PLC
- Ethiopian Government
- 25 October 2010
50yr lease agreement between Ethiopian government and India's Karuturi covering an initial 100,000 ha in Gambela. Contract enables Karuturi to extend concession by another 200,000 ha.
The struggle to prevent land grabbing and forest destruction in Indonesia
- TNI
- 25 October 2010
Interview with Elisha Kartini of the Indonesian Peasant Union
Río Negro, Argentina: Saiz signed with China to provide food for 20 years
- La Nación
- 25 October 2010
Río Negro's governor has signed off 320,000 ha to China's Beida Yuang for the production of soybean, wheat and rape, for shipment to China, over the next 20 years
Funds: Up on the farm
- BNE
- 25 October 2010
GAIA and others see the most leverage for investment returns coming from emerging market regions like Brazil, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan due to low valuations, low costs of production and low land values.
India billionaires go on buying spree in 'last frontier' Africa
- Bloomberg
- 24 October 2010
“I got in on the ground floor, others got in on the second floor, but there’s a lot of floors left to go in Africa’s economic cycle,” says farmland investor Sai Karuturi.
Chinese investors acquire a taste for Napa Valley wineries
- USA Today
- 24 October 2010
A growing number of Chinese businessmen are looking at California vineyards for sale, to sell US wines to the booming China and Hong Kong markets.
Unpacking a Chinese company's land grab in Cameroon
- GRAIN
- 22 October 2010
China's IKO ltd intends to produce rice and cassava on over 10,000 ha of lands it has acquired in Cameroon.
Laos and the Resource Curse
- Asian Sentinel
- 21 October 2010
China and other nations are making Laos an industrial farm, to the detriment of its ecology
Civil society communiqué on large scale land acquisitions in Zambia
- ZLA
- 21 October 2010
Land is too important to be left to the whims of international commercial interests to overrun the land rights of the ordinary people of Zambia.
Lawsuit aims to annul Saudi prince's Toshka land deal
- Daily News
- 21 October 2010
Groups consider land deal "treason", saying its aim is to steal Egyptian water and create a state inside the state.
Prime farmland in Argentina costs almost as much as in United States
- MercoPress
- 21 October 2010
There is a growing interest from buyers, a greater number of requests to visit potential acquisitions and the best farmland is specifically targeted.