Australian Liberal senator Bill Heffernan warns that sovereign wealth funds need to be watched because some were "already acquiring other sovereigns' wealth to protect their own food security tasks".
- Stock & Land
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16 August 2010
A delegation of Korea experts is expected to arrive in the country to sign a $50 million pact covering an initial 15,000 ha in the Rufiji River Basin.
- Tanzania Daily News
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16 August 2010
States and mega-corporations are snapping up cheap land to produce food and making money at the expense of people in host countries.
It is not too late for equitable partnerships to flourish between foreign investors and local communities.
Macquarie Group's agricultural division has launched a new cropping fund that will buy large-scale grain properties in Australia and Brazil.
- Stock & Land
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16 August 2010
Singapore-based Olam will develop a palm-oil plantation covering as much as 300,000 hectares in the southeast of the country.
Study reveals that over 50 million hectares are currently assigned in land deals or under negotiation in 27 African host countries – an area equivalent to France.
- Global Land Project
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14 August 2010
Joint-venture farms that have China's financial and technical support are the future of China-Africa agriculture cooperation says China State Farms Agribusiness Corporation manager.
- China Daily
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12 August 2010
With the surge of corporate farms in Argentina and Brazil over the past two to three years, I thought it would be useful to compile a list of the biggest groups with a short description of each.
- Progressive Farmer
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12 August 2010
L’ennui, reconnaît la Banque mondiale, c’est que ces investissements, loin d’être une aubaine pour le continent noir, finissent par nuire à des populations déjà pauvres et à des économies précaires.
- Tribune de Genève
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12 August 2010
Feasibility study to invest in a large scale agro-industrial project in the land designated as the Katumba and Mishamo refugee settlements
- The Oakland Institute
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11 August 2010
ASSOCHAM, India's apex industry body, has sent a proposal to the external affairs ministry offering to act as facilitator to help Indian farmers get farmland in Africa.