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New Hope asks Chinese govt to stop blocking DDGS
- Reuters
- 08 Mar 2011
Company says it is "difficult to acquire land or farms overseas" but aims to set up 15 to 20 feed mills in South Asia and Central Africa over the coming five years.
Brazil on brink of new soy boom, easing food fears
- Reuters
- 08 Mar 2011
"We don't invest in commodities; the trend is for them to fall. The value is in owning the land ... And we are not investing in land anywhere else in the world, except Brazil," says Daniel Ward of the Virginia Tech endowment
Standard Chartered takes 30 per cent stake in Afrifresh Group
- Bernama
- 08 Mar 2011
Afrifresh manages 14 farms across South Africa, with over 3,000 hectares under irrigation, in addition to its export agency business.
Clarity and UAE investors launch first agricultural project in Macedonia
- Zawya
- 08 Mar 2011
The company is currently looking at concluding another deal in Africa as well as other opportunities on behalf of regional investors for large scale production of crops in areas such as Africa, Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
Parliament checking reports of Gaddafi renting farmland in Ukraine
- Interfax-Ukraine
- 08 Mar 2011
The Verkhovna Rada's committee on agricultural policy and land relations is checking reports that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is renting farmland in Ukraine
La soja desembarca en la Patagonia
- Página 12
- 08 Mar 2011
Se entregarían 240 mil hectáreas para el cultivo a la empresa estatal china Heilongjiang Beidahuang. Antes de cosechar soja, el acuerdo ya cosecha críticas de parte de organizaciones comunitarias y ambientalistas.
En pleine croissance, Sifca dope sa présence au Liberia
- Jeune Afrique
- 08 Mar 2011
Le géant agro-industriel ivoirien Sifca a réalisé à quelques semaines d'intervalle deux opérations majeures dans le caoutchouc (22 000 ha) et l’huile de palme (8 800 ha).
Felda in talks to buy 90,000ha land to grow rubber and oil palm
- The Star
- 07 Mar 2011
Felda Holdings, the world's largest estate owner, is in talks to buy up to 90,000ha of land across South-East Asia
Agribusiness boom threatens key African wildlife migration
- Yale e360
- 07 Mar 2011
Karuturi's 15 John Deere tractors plough 500 hectares a day on its 300,000 land concession in the Gambella region of Ethiopia. This is land clearance on a gigantic scale.
'Accaparement des terres' à la mode péruvienne
- ILC
- 07 Mar 2011
L‘accaparement des terres dans certains pays, y compris le Pérou, est mené par les investisseurs domestiques, encouragés par les marchés agricoles internationaux avec le soutien de leurs propres gouvernements.
'Accaparement des terres' à la mode péruvienne
- ILC
- 07 Mar 2011
L‘accaparement des terres dans certains pays, y compris le Pérou, est mené par les investisseurs domestiques, encouragés par les marchés agricoles internationaux avec le soutien de leurs propres gouvernements.
Al wok. China saltó al tercer puesto en la inversión extranjera en la Argentina
- La Nación
- 06 Mar 2011
En 2010, China pasó de ser el 29° inversor extranjero en Argentina a ubicarse posiblemente como el tercero.