Land grabbing – a killing blow to the fight against poverty in Africa

• APA
• 27 October 2010

Oxfam concerned that land grabbing not being addressed adequately and with enough of a sense of urgency.

The 40-year food outlook

• Daily Reckoning
• 27 October 2010

Farmland is a compelling way to capitalize on the coming bull market in agricultural commodities, but it’s a high-risk proposition.

Ethiopia plans to rent out Belgium-sized land area to produce cash crops

• Bloomberg
• 26 October 2010

“If we get money [from renting out our land] we can buy food anywhere. Then we can solve [Ethiopia's] food problem,” says Abera Deressa, minister of state for agriculture

Defending the commons, territories and the right to food and water

• LRAN
• 26 October 2010

LRAN briefing paper series, October 2010

German investment funds involved in land grabbing

• FIAN
• 25 October 2010

Report provides detailed information about investment opportunities in land grabbing offered to German private and institutional investors.

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.