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AXA, BNP, Crédit Agricole, Société Générale : comment faire (aussi) du fric avec le blé….
- Bakchiche
- 16 January 2012
Si la France a perdu son triple A, ses banques et assurances profitent bien de la hausse des cours mondiaux des denrées alimentaires.
Ethiopie : Le début des ennuis pour Karuturi
- Africa Intelligence
- 14 January 2012
Le ministère éthiopien de l'agriculture s'oppose à ce que la compagnie Karuturi installe des milliers de fermiers indiens sur les terres qu'elle loue dans la région de Gambela.
Inversión extranjera pone el ojo en el campo
- El Tiempo
- 14 January 2012
Hace algunos meses, Cargill emprendió en la altillanura colombiana un proyecto de producción de cereales que involucra 90.000 hectáreas en el departamento del Meta, y ya invirtió 100.000 millones de pesos en la compra de tierras.
Les denrées alimentaires de plus en plus chères à cause des spéculations
- RTBF
- 13 January 2012
Après la crise des prix agricoles en 2008, un constat, en 2011, la spéculation reprend. Il y a aussi le problème des achats croissants et massifs de terres dans de nombreux pays, notamment du Sud.
Karuturi’s woes have begun
- Indian Ocean Newsletter
- 13 January 2012
The Ethiopian ministry of agriculture is against the firm Karuturi’s plan to install thousands of Indian farmers in land it has leased in the Gambela region.
Madagascar Future Entreprises
- Indian Ocean Newsletter
- 13 January 2012
The Korean company Daewoo Logistics Corporation has acquired all the shares in the agribusiness company Madagascar Future Entreprises. Its manager Kwon Kim is believed to have begun new negotiations with the present Malagasy government for agricultural projects.
Accaparement de terres : anatomie d’un pillage
- Lot en Action
- 13 January 2012
Aucun aménagement à la marge de ces politiques ne saurait contenir la rapacité des investisseurs, publics ou privés : c’est la logique néolibérale qui les sous-tend qu’il faut combattre, au moyen de mobilisations populaires
Hard assets - Farmland investing Perry Vieth on Bloomberg
- Bloomberg
- 12 January 2012
"The institutional investors are just starting to get into farmland," says Perry Vieth, president of Ceres Partners LLC
Millions of dollars due to be invested in rice production and processing in Mozambique’s Zambézia province
- Macauhub
- 12 January 2012
Starting this year Olam Moçambique plans to invest over US$35 million to make use of the agricultural potential of the Mopeia area to produce large amounts of rice on 227 hectares of land to supply the domestic market.
"The Zambezi Valley: China's first agricultural colony?" Fiction or fact?
- chinaafricarealstory.com
- 12 January 2012
No evidence to support the idea that “China” was intending to create an agricultural colony in Mozambique, or make the Zambezi Valley into China’s rice bowl.
Pigs and protection money: German farmers seek their fortunes in Russia
- Der Spiegel
- 12 January 2012
German farmer plans to expand his operation to 250,000 hectares, an area the size of the state of Saarland, and to float his company on the stock market in Germany, where he pays a portion of his taxes.
Liberia among top 5 countries giving farmland to foreigners
- Liberian Observer
- 12 January 2012
Liberia is one of the top 5 countries in the world whose farmland are under the control of foreign concessionaires, according to a report made by Grain, a non-governmental organization supporting small farms.