• Kuwait firm eyes farmland in Southeast Asia
    • Reuters
    • 07 October 2009

    "Our proposition to the governments is that we can help them develop the infrastructure and develop the farmland and we will then take a share of the produce," says KCIC

  • K S Oils acquires more land in Indonesia
    • Commodity Online
    • 07 October 2009

    K S Oils, one of India’s leading integrated edible oil food companies Wednesday announced further acquisition of 53,000 acres of land for palm oil plantations in Indonesia. This brings the company’s land bank in Indonesia to 1,38,000 acres [56,000 ha], the largest owned by any Indian company.

  • Le contrat d’agribusiness de VARUN doit être annulé
    • Collectif pour la Défense des Terres Malgaches
    • 07 October 2009

    Le contrat de Varun est fortement défavorable aux paysans malgaches. Suspendu depuis plusieurs mois par le pouvoir central, il doit d’urgence être annulé.

  • Vita Grain says priority is to support stock-piling of rice in Singapore
    • Business Times
    • 06 October 2009

    Vita Grain Group, which is backed by US $60 million of funding, owns more than 20 different strains of hybrid rice seeds. Vita Grain is looking for funding to expand its seed production beyond Africa to Asia, the US and South America. The company is also setting up a rice mill in Mauritius and is in talks with partners in Botswana, Madagascar and Mozambique to develop rice production units.

  • Españoles que cultivan fuera
    • El País
    • 06 October 2009

    Empresas alimentarias españolas apuestan por producir en el exterior para abastecer el mercado nacional y los de terceros países

  • Japan ready to fund agriculture activities in Merauke
    • Tempo Interactive
    • 05 October 2009

    Several companies like Mitsubishi Corporation are interested in promoting Merauke as a new rice barn in Asia.

  • Funds: Eastern Europe the focus for "Green Revolution II" investors
    • Business New Europe
    • 05 October 2009

    It isn't often you sit down with a fund manager and begin the interview by discussing their new film.

  • This asset is like gold, only better
    • Stockhouse
    • 04 October 2009

    Almost half the farmland bought in Britain last year was snapped up by banks and funds.

  • Zardari regime grappling with its credibility
    • Dawn
    • 04 October 2009

    The Zardari government is on trial with respects to three developments, of which the possible lease of land to Saudi Arabia and some other Arab countries, because they are of historical significance for Pakistan.

  • Grabbing land
    • The News
    • 04 October 2009

    A significant percentage of the manual labour force on arable land in Pakistan is female. If we lease this land to Saudi Arabia -- a country where women are not allowed to drive cars, vote, work in public places with a namehram -- to do with as it pleases -- will there still, across the proposed acreage reportedly twice the size of Hong Kong, be room for them?

  • "Madagascar ne doit pas vendre son eau douce"
    • Courrier International
    • 02 October 2009

    Le parti vert malgache n'est pas contre l'accès à la terre des étrangers, mais il faut que l'Etat s'occupe des Malgaches d'abord.

  • Speaking freely: China's eye on African agriculture
    • Asia Times
    • 01 October 2009

    China's agricultural investments strategies in Africa are not as self-serving as some critics argue.

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