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Food estate feared to marginalize Papuans
- Jakarta Post
- 09 Mar 2010
A planned large-scale food production system in Merauke, Papua province, aimed at improving national food sustainability, could prove detrimental for locals, an activist says.
Rausing company pays EUR 8.2mn for arable land in Romania
- UkrAgroConsult
- 08 Mar 2010
Ingleby Agricultura, controlled by the Rausing family, paid EUR 8.2mn for purchasing 2,000ha of arable land in Western Romania from Danish company FirstFarms
Qatar agribusiness buys first Australian holding
- Australian Financial Review
- 08 Mar 2010
Qatar-based Hassad Food has initiated its investment in Australian agriculture with the purchase of the prized Kaladbro Estate in far western Victoria.
The Foreign Land Grab Part 1: Food insecurity
- The Casual Truth
- 08 Mar 2010
In the past two years there has been a remarkable increase in purchases of large-scale farmland by foreigners throughout Africa, Latin America, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia.
UK buyout firm launches agriculture fund
- Financial News
- 08 Mar 2010
SilverStreet Capital aims to raise $100m to buy farms in South Africa growing produce including corn, wheat, soya beans, fruit and tea. It will also target aquaculture.
Kuwait hunts for agro-food investments in Turkey
- Reuters
- 08 Mar 2010
Kuwaiti firms and other Gulf Cooperation Council members are looking to invest in agriculture and food in Turkey, and could sign a number of contacts this year, the head of Turkey's investment agency said on Sunday.
How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab
- The Guardian
- 07 Mar 2010
An Observer investigation reveals how rich countries faced by a global food shortage now farm an area double the size of the UK to guarantee supplies for their citizens
Selling off the heart of our nation
- Daily Telegraph
- 07 Mar 2010
Saudi Arabia, along with Abu Dhabi and Kuwait, want to buy more than $1 billion worth of Aussie farmland in a 21st century land grab.
Land grabbing in Latin America
- GRAIN
- 05 Mar 2010
Right now communities in Latin America, as around the world, are suffering a new kind of invasion of their territories
Activists say Papua food estate ‘not the answer’
- Jakarta Globe
- 04 Mar 2010
"If the government wants to eliminate famine, it should give farmers access to more land, and not give it away for corporations"
Saudi Arabia mulls new port for food imports
- Arabian Business
- 03 Mar 2010
Since Saudi Arabia abandoned its wheat cultivation programme two years ago, due to dwindling water resources in the desert kingdom, it became a major buyer of wheat from global markets.
GCC states look abroad to meet food needs
- Emirates Business 24/7
- 03 Mar 2010
Gulf oil producers have abandoned long-standing nationalistic policies of achieving food self-sufficiency and switched to a more realistic approach of using their strong financial muscle to invest in farm projects in fertile countries.