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Karuturi Global on Ethiopian plans
- NDTV
- 07 June 2010
"Personally, I believe that in five years or in ten years time I would like to be seen and compared with peers such as Cargill or the Archer Daniels of the world or the Bunges of the world."
London International Oromo Workshop: The scramble for land, ‘investment’ and environmental degradation in Oromia
- Gadaa.com
- 06 June 2010
This one-day multidisciplinary workshop will examine the scale of the problem and the environmental degradation, economic, social and health problems facing the Oromo people as the result of the farmland wholesale to foreign investors and will aim to formulate a consensus on how to mitigate its burden on the Oromo people.
Responsibly destroying the world’s peasantry
- Project Syndicate
- 04 June 2010
World Bank and UN's seven Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment are "woefully inadequate" says UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food.
SilverStreet Fund focuses on agriculture in Africa
- Institutional Investor
- 04 June 2010
SilverStreet is scouting for commercial farms in five countries — Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
Unlocking Sub-Saharan Africa’s agricultural potential
- World Bank
- 04 June 2010
World Bank's MIGA provides political risk insurance for Chayton Capital's $50 million farmland investments in southern Africa.
“Food estates” in West Papua raise fears of systematic marginalization
- WPAT
- 04 June 2010
These planned food estates will deprive Papuans of their traditional resources for hunting and fishing and destroy the very basis of their livelihoods.
Land investments are wholesale sell-outs for women farmers
- Pambazuka
- 03 June 2010
With the emerging land investments a new set of challenges emerges for the woman farmer.
Russia fights for world dominance—in wheat
- Bloomberg
- 03 June 2010
By 2008 global grain prices were reaching record levels, and Swedish, British, Chinese, and Korean investors were piling into Russian farmland.
Abu Dhabi looks to Sudan to secure food supply
- Financial Times
- 03 June 2010
Abu Dhabi is preparing to launch a large-scale agricultural project in Sudan to develop more than 70,000 acres of land as part of the oil-rich Gulf emirate's efforts to secure food supplies.
Greens claim conflict of interest in Crafar sale
- NZ Herald
- 03 June 2010
A lawyer advising the NZ Government how to make it easier to sell assets overseas is working for the Chinese company wanting to buy the Crafar farms, the Green Party says.
Qatar: Hassad to meet half of wheat requirement
- Zawya
- 02 June 2010
Hassad Food says it would soon begin meeting at least 50 percent of Qatar's wheat requirements and later 20 percent of its poultry needs.
France sets up $120 million Africa agriculture fund
- Reuters
- 02 June 2010
France has announced the establishment of an investor fund destined to support the development of farming projects in Africa and the distribution of food stuffs