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German investment funds involved in land grabbing
- FIAN
- 25 October 2010
Report provides detailed information about investment opportunities in land grabbing offered to German private and institutional investors.
Food security - Unlocking Africa’s vast agricultural potential
- AfDB
- 25 October 2010
In lead up to Tunis Conference, African Development Bank calls for reforms to African land laws to facilitate private investment in agriculture.
Land rent contractual agreement made between Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Karuturi Agro Products PLC
- Ethiopian Government
- 25 October 2010
50yr lease agreement between Ethiopian government and India's Karuturi covering an initial 100,000 ha in Gambela. Contract enables Karuturi to extend concession by another 200,000 ha.
The struggle to prevent land grabbing and forest destruction in Indonesia
- TNI
- 25 October 2010
Interview with Elisha Kartini of the Indonesian Peasant Union
La sécurité alimentaire dans la péninsule arabique
- Momagri
- 25 October 2010
Les pays du Golfe cherchent à stimuler la production alimentaire dans d'autres pays pour soutenir leurs populations croissantes.
Río Negro, Argentina: Saiz signed with China to provide food for 20 years
- La Nación
- 25 October 2010
Río Negro's governor has signed off 320,000 ha to China's Beida Yuang for the production of soybean, wheat and rape, for shipment to China, over the next 20 years
Funds: Up on the farm
- BNE
- 25 October 2010
GAIA and others see the most leverage for investment returns coming from emerging market regions like Brazil, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan due to low valuations, low costs of production and low land values.
Río Negro, Argentina: Saiz firmó con China para proveer alimentos por 20 años
- La Nación
- 25 October 2010
La provincia de Río Negro le asegurará a China la provisión de alimentos durante 20 años con una de las mayores empresas de alimentos, la estatal Beida Yuang
Uruguay busca limitar el avance de extranjeros en la compra de terrenos agrícolas
- Cronista
- 25 October 2010
Según la Asociación Rural de Uruguay (ARU), en los últimos nueve años 60% de las áreas comercializadas pasaron a manos extranjeras un total de aproximadamente 3,5 millones de hectáreas
Uruguai busca limitar avanço de estrangeiros
- Valor Economico
- 25 October 2010
Nos últimos nove anos, segundo a Associação Rural do Uruguai (ARU), 60% das áreas comercializadas passaram às mãos de estrangeiros
India billionaires go on buying spree in 'last frontier' Africa
- Bloomberg
- 24 October 2010
“I got in on the ground floor, others got in on the second floor, but there’s a lot of floors left to go in Africa’s economic cycle,” says farmland investor Sai Karuturi.
Land Grabbing -- Wettlauf um Ackerland
- SWR
- 24 October 2010
Immer mehr Länder, Nahrungsmittelkonzerne, Banken und Investmentfonds pachten langfristig Ackerland in den afrikanischen und asiatischen Entwicklungsländern.