Answers to the global food crisis

• YouTube
• 18 November 2010

Anuradha Mittal talks about land grabbing

Via Campesina action against land grabbing

• Via Campesina
• 17 November 2010

Video of Via Campesina action at the FAO headquarters in October 2010

Sojitz plans to start producing soybeans in Argentina

• Bloomberg
• 17 November 2010

Sojitz will lease 11,000 hectares of farmland cultivating soybeans, corn, wheat and other crops in the Pampas region and may expand to 200,000 hectares.

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.