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Moçambique oferece terra à soja brasileira
- IHU
- 14 August 2011
O governo de Moçambique está oferecendo uma área de 6 milhões de hectares - equivalente a três Sergipes- para que agricultores brasileiros plantem soja, algodão e milho no norte do país.
Cameroonian filmmaker unpeels banana inequalities
- VoA
- 13 August 2011
Disputed land rights, food insecurity and pollution caused by large-scale export-based agriculture are main themes of the Cameroonian-made movie "The Big Banana".
Chinese company push for Western Australia farmland
- Farm Weekly
- 12 August 2011
A number of growers in the Great Southern have been approached by a prominent Chinese company with offers to buy farms.
Russia offers agricultural land for Southeast Asian farmers to grow crops
- Bloomberg
- 12 August 2011
Russia is offering agricultural land to Southeast Asian nations to grow crops and help secure reliable food supplies, part of wider efforts to foster trade and investment ties in new markets.
Corne de l'Afrique : pour une agriculture souveraine et durable
- Le Monde
- 12 August 2011
Les terres africaines doivent être protégées de l'accaparement croissant par des investisseurs étrangers.
Les nouveaux accapareurs de terres agricoles
- Le Paysan Breton
- 12 August 2011
Le mot « accapareur » était déjà utilisé avant la Révolution Française de 1789. Il désignait ceux qui entretenaient la famine pour s’enrichir par le marché noir, un des éléments déclencheurs de la Révolution.
Meles Zenawi says no land grab in Ethiopia—not today, not tomorrow
- tramnsformingethiopia
- 11 August 2011
The government has not presented satisfactory and truthful explanations about its actions, let alone credible defense of its role as agency and facilitator of the abominable practices of farmland grabbing.
Nigerian farmer leader talks about resistance to land grabs
- GRAIN
- 11 August 2011
Interview with Olaseinde Makanjuola Arigbede of the United Small and Medium scale Farmers' Associations of Nigeria (USMEFAN)
Land registry law published
- UKRINFORM
- 11 August 2011
The law on the state land cadastre was published in the parliamentary newspaper Holos Ukrainy and will take force on 1 January 2012.
Grantham says farmland will outperform all global assets
- Bloomberg
- 10 August 2011
Farmland and forestry will outperform the average of all global assets long-term, according to Jeremy Grantham, chief investment strategist for Boston-based Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co.
China ready to fight for its pound of flesh
- NZ Herald
- 10 August 2011
Two issues are bound to feature in New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser's talks in Beijing next week: New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra’s market power in the China domestic market and Chinese investment intentions within New Zealand.
Being like Soros in buying farmland lets investors reap 16% annual gains
- Bloomberg
- 10 August 2011
Investors are pouring into farmland in the US and parts of Europe, Latin America and Africa as global food prices soar.