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Harvard University to buy Otago farmland
- Radio New Zealand
- 07 October 2010
New Zealand's Federated Farmers is welcoming the purchase of a big slice of farmland in central Otago by Harvard University for $34.1 million.
Overseas buyers a blessing to struggling farms
- NZ Herald
- 07 October 2010
Richard Fyers, a commercial lawyer with the NZ China Trade Association, writes about the fuss made over land sales to foreigners.
Sauditas buscam terras no Brasil
- ANBA
- 06 October 2010
A afirmação é do secretário-executivo do Ministério da Agricultura brasileiro, Gerardo Fontelles.
Projet Daewoo: Les raisons de l’abandon sont multiples
- La Gazette
- 06 October 2010
Les expériences de Daewoo et de Varun présentent les ingrédients d’une implantation agro-industrielle condamnée à l’échec. Ces éléments d’une stratégie « perdant-perdant » peuvent se résumer en trois points.
2nd Global Large Scale Farm Forum in Siem Reap, Cambodia
- PR Web
- 06 October 2010
The key highlights of the forum will focus on the rising prospects in the global agricultural business, land utilisation and acquisition policies.
Gobierno busca frenar compra de tierras por extranjeros
- El Espectador
- 06 October 2010
El presidente José Mujica encargó a tres senadores del Frente Amplio la elaboración de un proyecto de ley tendiente a frenar la extranjerización de la tierra en Uruguay.
Ethiopian case study illustrates shortcomings of “land grab” debate
- The New Security Beat
- 06 October 2010
The two months we spent in the Amhara and Oromia regions of Ethiopia, surveying smallholders and profiling large-scale commercial farms, left us with a different impression.
Papua in Merauke reject Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate
- Indigenous Peoples Issues
- 06 October 2010
We support the position adopted by the Ha Nim indigenous people and their sympathisers who reject the MIFEE project on their land because it poses a threat to the right to life of the local communities and urge the Indonesian state – SBY – to repeal the MoU about MIFEE.
Join Spires campaign against Land Grabbing!
- Spire
- 06 October 2010
Please support our demands that the Norwegian Government stops import of commodities from grabbed land, takes initiativ to international cooperation to control investment deals in the agricultural sector, and make sure that Norwegian investments never happens at the expence of peoples food security or participation.
US investors plough cash into farmland
- BBC
- 05 October 2010
Investment managers in the US report rising interest from pension schemes and retail investors in funds that buy and run farmland in developed countries.
Invasion foncière : L’Afrique expropriée de ses terres
- Quotidien Mutations
- 05 October 2010
50 ans après les indépendances, l’Occident et les pays émergents font main basse sur le sol et le sous-sol du continent: l’on estime à des millions d’hectares, les superficies déjà acquises dans plusieurs pays. L’Union africaine en ordre de bataille pour faire barrage.
Saudis to invest $500 million in Brazil agriculture
- QNA
- 05 October 2010
Representatives of Saudi group Agro invest, a public-private agricultural investment company, are now in Brazil seeking partnerships for producing and exporting grain and poultry.