Agri-Vie, a private equity fund focused on food and agribusiness investments - including farmland - in subSaharan Africa, closed its first fund with participation from Kellogg Foundation, NorFund, IFC and AfDB.
More than $9 billion of prized agricultural assets have been sold to offshore interests in the past two years alone.
- Daily Telegraph
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15 November 2010
Enquête de la chaîne de télévision française M6 sur les activités économiques des Chinois au Cameroun y compris dans les domaines de la peche et la riziculture (4ème partie)
Investors have found a new target -- farmland in eastern Germany. As a result, the price of agricultural land there has soared by up to 100 percent. Many farmers are concerned about their survival after their current lease agreements run out in two years.
- Deutsche Welle
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12 November 2010
Entretien avec Ndjoya Dieudonné, membre du Comité de développement de la région de Ndo (CODEN)
- GRAIN et CODEN
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08 November 2010
Wie sich DWS-Fonds der Deutschen Bank am "Land Crapping" beteiligen
Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, and Smita Narula, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, discuss land grabbing on Democracy Now!
- Democracy Now!
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28 October 2010
Entretien avec Camille Bethoux, de Peuples solidaires, en partenariat avec la Semaine de la solidarité internationale, du 13 au 21 novembre 2010
- Alternatives Economiques
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26 October 2010
Immer mehr Länder, Nahrungsmittelkonzerne, Banken und Investmentfonds pachten langfristig Ackerland in den afrikanischen und asiatischen Entwicklungsländern.
Ramesh Krishnaswamy of Karuturi Global in an exclusive interview with CNBC-TV18
Joining ABN from Lagos on the implications of the World Bank report's findings is Dennis Aliga, CEO of DMA Capital Group.
Presentation to the CTA Rural Development Briefing in Central Africa