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Ethiopia: A country for sale
- Pambazuka
- 30 Mar 2011
Ethiopia is on sale. Everybody is getting a piece of her. For next to nothing. The land vultures have been swooping down on Gambella from all parts of the world.
Bangladesh govt prods local investors to farm cotton, food in Africa
- Financial Express
- 30 Mar 2011
The move comes after two fact-finding missions led by the foreign secretary last year found farming in the so-called dark continent "exceedingly lucrative" for Bangladeshi investors.
President's Administration says foreigners should have right to privatize farmland
- ForUm
- 30 Mar 2011
First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration Iryna Akimova said that foreign nationals should be eligible for the privatization of agricultural land in Ukraine.
Uruguay’s farmland price jumped eight times from 2002 to 2010
- MercoPress
- 30 Mar 2011
President Jose Mujica said that private land sales will be honoured but under no conditions will sovereign funds or foreign countries be allowed to purchase land in Uruguay as is happening in Africa.
Ethiopie : Le grand débat sur l’accaparement des terres
- IRIN
- 29 Mar 2011
L’Ethiopie ne supporte guère les critiques concernant sa politique de location de terres à grande échelle.
‘Foreigners own 74 m acres of farmland in Africa’: What will prospective candidates do about this?
- Daily Trust
- 29 Mar 2011
In Nigeria today, foreign acquisition of arable agriculture land has become a hot and widely discuss issue.
Land as a hot commodity
- Wall Street Journal
- 29 Mar 2011
Higher land prices are here to stay; an additional inflationary tailwind for the already rising cost of food.
የሰፋፊ መሬቶች ልማት
- Government of Ethiopia
- 29 Mar 2011
Goverment of Ethiopia webpage on land lease contracts (in Amharic)
Une société de conseil australienne encourage l'huile de palme en Papouasie Nouvelle Guinée
- 24H dans le Pacifique
- 28 Mar 2011
Le groupe malasien Rimbudan Hijau vient d’annoncer son intention de se lancer dans l’huile de palme après l'acquisition de milliers d’hectares de terres coutumières dans la province de Nouvelle-Bretagne orientale.
Capital internacional cada vez mais presente na produção mato-grossense
- Agronoticias
- 28 Mar 2011
Oficialmente, 844 mil hectares estão sob o controle dos “gringos”, seja através de arrendamento ou mesmo de aquisições feitas por empresários rurais, grupos ou corporações internacionais.
Corn on the Cambodian cob suits Korean farmer
- Joong Ang Daily
- 28 Mar 2011
Lee Woo-chang set up a farming company called KomerCN in Cambodia in December 2008 to grow corn for export to Korea on 21 ha. He now wants to expand the farm to 13,000 ha.
Bolivia: Más de un millón de hectáreas en manos de extranjeros
- Bolpress
- 28 Mar 2011
Agroindustriales extranjeros compraron o arrendaron más de un millón de hectáreas de tierra en Bolivia en los últimos años. Los brasileros habrían adquirido cerca de 700 mil hectáreas; los argentinos, 100 mil hectáreas; y menonitas y japoneses, otras 200 mil has.