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You reap what you sow
- Arabian Business
- 13 January 2011
As Gulf states continue to invest in foreign farmland, what are the long term implications
Money talks: Qatar's FIFA bid fits sovereign wealth fund investment strategy
- Bleacher Report
- 13 January 2011
A closer look at Qatar’s successful bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup and the relationship between sports investments by oil-rich nations and acquisitions by their sovereign wealth funds.
In corrupt global food system, farmland is the new gold
- IPS
- 13 January 2011
"We have set up a global food system that supports speculation. And with [such] markets, we can't get speculators out of the food business," said Lester Brown, an agricultural policy expert and founder of the Washington-based Earth Policy Institute.
Has Cambodia become a country for sale?
- BBC
- 13 January 2011
Around 15% of Cambodian land has been signed over to private companies, a third of them foreign, using leases under which they promise to develop the plots and provide jobs.
Multinational eyes farmland
- Sunshine Coast Daily
- 13 January 2011
Is the Sunshine Coast at risk of losing the farm to foreign interests?
Responsible investment in commodities
- onValues
- 13 January 2011
Holdings in productive assets such as farmland can be managed to a high degree of ESG performance, but require a commensurately high degree of investor expertise, says this report sponsored by the Swiss government
Mitsui to pay 40 billion yen for Brazil company, Nikkei reports
- Bloomberg
- 12 January 2011
Mitsui plans to buy 44.2% of Brazilian grain broker Multigrain SA, who owns in excess of 100,000 ha of farmland, equal to 2% of the total cultivated land of Japan
How not to think about land-grabbing
- ILC
- 12 January 2011
Accelerating the shift towards large-scale, highly mechanized forms of agriculture will not solve the problem of hunger: it will make it worse.
Show guts on foreign land ownership, union tells Zuma
- Times Live
- 12 January 2011
Nehawu, the powerful union representing education and health workers, wants President Jacob Zuma to ban or at least limit foreign land ownership in South Africa.
Comment aborder différemment le sujet de l’accaparement des terres
- ILC
- 12 January 2011
Céder des terres aux investisseurs résultera en un type d’exploitation agricole dont l’impact, en termes de réduction de la pauvreté, est bien moindre que si on améliorait l’accès des communautés agricoles locales à la terre
Ukraine’s agriculture companies may raise $1 billion this year
- Bloomberg
- 12 January 2011
Parliament will consider in March a draft law that would open up the possibility of agricultural land sales
Food reserve planned, but imports leave UAE vulnerable
- The National
- 12 January 2011
Several national companies and even the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the capital's sovereign fund, are planning investments in agriculture in countries as diverse as Vietnam, Cambodia, Pakistan, Australia, Romania and the United States.