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Farmland investment booming in Africa
- AltAssets
- 08 September 2011
"As investors we always want to be on the correct side of global macro trends, and whatever China needs or is buying lots of, we want to own as investments."
Etiopia, la rapina delle terre da parte di investitori indiani avanza nonostante la siccità e la fame.
- Il Fatto Alimentare
- 08 September 2011
Il Corno d’Africa è afflitto dalla più grave tragedia umanitaria che la sua storia ricordi. Siccità e fame, 12 milioni di persone senza cibo né acqua. Ma il “neocolonialismo agricolo” procede indisturbato.
US company looking to farm rice in Nigeria and Tanzania left trail of devastation in Kenya
- GRAIN
- 07 September 2011
The people living on the lands now being targeted by US-owned Dominion Farms can learn a lot from the film Good Fortune, which provides a behind-the-scenes account of the struggle of a local community in Kenya to defend their lands from this company.
Simmering tension over forest give-away
- IRIN
- 07 September 2011
A plan to replace a large swathe of protected rainforest in Uganda with sugarcane could lead to further civil unrest in a year when nine people have been killed during strikes and protests against the rising cost of living.
AEW Capital launches unit to acquire farmland
- Boston Business Journal
- 07 September 2011
AEW Capital Management of Boston is launching a new investment division to acquire farmland in the United States and Canada.
Making investment work for Africa: A Parliamentarian response to “land grabs”
- PAP
- 07 September 2011
Report from the seminar on foreign investment in agricultural land and water, organized by the Pan African Parliament
Ibrahima Coulibaly, président de la CNOP Mali
- IPAR
- 07 September 2011
Ibrahima Coulibaly est le président de la Coordination Nationale des Organisations Paysannes du Mali. En marge de la rencontre organisée en juillet 2011 par l’Alliance Internationale Terre Citoyenne, où la question de l’accaparement des terres et des ressources naturelles était au cœur des débats, il a accepté de se confier à l’IPAR.
Foreign bid for slice of sugar
- Daily Mercury
- 07 September 2011
While foreign investment is nothing new in the Australian sugar industry, the rate at which foreign companies have been pouring money into the industry has caused some concern among canegrowers.
Pension funds launch Principles for Responsible Investment in Farmland
- UNPRI
- 06 September 2011
A group of institutional investors representing US$1.3 trillion in assets have today launched the Principles for Responsible Investment in Farmland (the “Farmland Principles”).
Afrique de l'Est : terres en vue
- Jeune Afrique
- 06 September 2011
En proposant d’injecter 2,5 milliards de dollars (1,7 milliard d’euros) dans le secteur agricole du continent noir, les géants indiens de l’agroalimentaire s’apprêtent à battre le record des deals agricoles signés en Afrique au cours des cinquante dernières années.
Agronegocios o derechos humanos
- Blog de Darío Aranda
- 06 September 2011
El 27 de abril al mediodía, en la Casa de Gobierno, la presidenta Cristina Fernández de Kirchner anunció el envío al Congreso de un proyecto de ley para regular la venta de tierras a extranjeros.
Karuturi to plant 20,000 hectares by November
- Capital Ethiopia
- 06 September 2011
Karuturi Global plans to plant 20,000 hectares of land with Sorghum, rice, maize, sunflower and soybeans in Bako area of Oromia regional state and Gambella regional state, by November 2011