• China's sovereign wealth fund ready to spend $6b in NZ
    • NZ Herald
    • 26 May 2011

    China's enormous sovereign wealth fund, the China Investment Corporation, may have set aside up to 1.5% or about $6 billion of its massive foreign exchange reserves to invest in New Zealand assets, including potentially dairy farms.

  • Q+A: Palm oil, growth and Indonesia's forest clearing ban
    • Reuters
    • 26 May 2011

    Indonesia, the world's No.1 palm oil producer, signed into law a 2-year freeze on new permits that may prompt palm oil firms to seek new ways to grow supply to meet rising demand from India and China, such as buying more land in Africa

  • Growing demand for SA’s agricultural skills
    • Business Day
    • 26 May 2011

    SA’s commercial agricultural skills are a sought-after currency on the continent, with Nigeria and Sierra Leone the latest to announce bold plans to recruit South African farmers to their countries.

  • No Indian land grab, says Ethiopian PM
    • IANS
    • 25 May 2011

    Amid some misgivings about India’s acquisition of vast stretches of land, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi Wednesday rejected charges of land grab as “loose talk” and welcomed Indian investment for development.

  • Come and farm our virgin lands, Ethiopia tells India
    • The Hindu
    • 25 May 2011

    Mr. Zenawi said it was possible that land-grabbing was going on elsewhere in Africa but not in Ethiopia, adding, “I want to reassure Indian companies that they are welcome here. We want them to come and farm what is virgin land.”

  • India: Food crisis an outcome of failed agrarian reforms
    • CounterCurrents
    • 25 May 2011

    We must not suffer with a false ‘nationalistic’ sentiment because the same companies are disinheriting our own people from their land and using it for non agricultural purposes and then procuring huge land abroad to get it imported to India.

  • AP2, TIAA-CREF partner in agriculture venture
    • Global Pensions
    • 25 May 2011

    Swedish pension buffer fund AP2 and US pension fund manager TIAA-CREF have formed a joint venture to invest at least US$500 million in farmland in the US, Australia and Brazil.

  • Mali: un million d'hectares toujours en friche
    • Jeune Afrique
    • 25 May 2011

    Faute d’investissements suffisants, moins de 10 % des terres gérées par l’Office du Niger, plus grand projet d’aménagement hydroagricole de toute l’Afrique de l’Ouest, sont exploités. Pour développer la zone, Bamako tente, tant bien que mal, de faire appel aux capitaux privés.

  • La terre roumaine, un paradis pour les étrangers
    • Le Petit Journal
    • 25 May 2011

    L'agriculture roumaine intéresse de plus en plus les investisseurs étrangers. Les autorités sont en train de s’en rendre compte et souhaitent prendre la situation en main.

  • Le « sucre du sang » au Cambodge
    • L'Usine Nouvelle
    • 25 May 2011

    En visite privée dans le Pays des Khmers, la parlementaire européenne Cecilia Wikström a constaté de nombreuses violations des droits humains et d’accaparement des terres des villageois par les sociétés sucrières

  • Karuturi and the conquest of the African mind space
    • Financial Express
    • 24 May 2011

    Ram Karuturi says he is targeting to acquire up to a million hectares of land in Ethiopia and other parts of Africa to build an integrated global agri-product company.

  • Ukraine to lift ban on sale of farmland in 2012, Le Monde says
    • Bloomberg
    • 24 May 2011

    Ukraine plans to lift a ban on the sale of farmland next year, Le Monde reported, citing an interview with Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk.

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