Agrowill ups share capital €18 mln

• Baltic Reports
• 23 August 2010

In an extraordinary shareholder’s meeting Lithuanian agribusiness conglomerate Agrowill agreed to increase the company’s share capital by €18 million to fund new projects.

Phone running 'red hot' says anti land-sales campaigner

• NZPA
• 23 August 2010

Auckland lawyer Tony Bouchier says his telephone has been ringing red hot with support for a campaign to stop New Zealand farms being sold to overseas owners

Political risks to Saudi farm investment abroad

• Emirates 24/7
• 23 August 2010

New study urges Kingdom to forge strategic alliances with global food giants to facilitate access to land or to final products.

PM says investment ad campaign goes too far

• ONE News
• 22 August 2010

Nationwide advertisements have been placed in newspapers today, calling for an end to foreign ownership of New Zealand farmland.

ZDA, Chinese firm seal agro deal

• Times of Zambia
• 21 August 2010

Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) has signed an agreement with Yuan Longping High-Tech Agriculture Company of China for the development of an agriculture farm bloc.

Uganda offers farmland for Indian investment

• IANS
• 20 August 2010

As India looks at avenues beyond its shores to deal with food security, Uganda, which has nearly half the arable land in east Africa, has laid the red carpet for inward investment from India Inc.

What’s the new global source for fresh, shiny produce? Famine-ridden Ethiopia

• Macleans
• 19 August 2010

Africa, where one in three people is malnourished, is now growing tomatoes and butter lettuce for export.

Lower Ruvu intruders won’t be compensated

• Daily News
• 18 August 2010

Government of Tanzania will not compensate villagers who have moved onto land of the proposed irrigation farming project with Korea.

Foreign investment fears unfounded: report

• NZ Herald
• 18 August 2010

Fears foreign interests have been mounting a major land grab in New Zealand, have been shot down by global accountancy firm KPMG.

Asian interest boosts Liberia palm oil hopes

• Financial Times
• 17 August 2010

Singapore-listed Golden Agri Resources said it was “actively evaluating” taking a share in a 220,000-hectare project being offered by the government of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.

Emirates seek overseas feed supply

• Al Dahra
• 16 August 2010

Abu Dhabi’s Al Dahra Agricultural Company is halfway through a plan involving more than 60,700 hectares of farmland in Europe, the US, south Asia and north Africa to boost the UAE’s food security.

Alarm bells at sovereign funds' farmlands foray

• Stock & Land
• 16 August 2010

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".