• Biofuels land grab in Kenya's Tana Delta fuels talk of war
    • The Guardian
    • 02 July 2011

    Villagers vow to resist as wildlife vanishes and they are driven from their land to make way for water-thirsty crops.

  • Asia leads the charge in Aussie land grab
    • ANA
    • 02 July 2011

    Asian investors have overtaken Europeans as the biggest buyers of Australian land, a snapshot of foreign acquisitions reveals.

  • A explosão da soja e do algodão baiano
    • Midia News
    • 02 July 2011

    No início de abril, uma delegação baiana desembarcou na China - aproveitando a visita da presidente Dilma Rousseff à Ásia - para dar encaminhamento a este e a outros investimentos estrangeiros.

  • EBRD channels more resources to support farm land cultivation in Ukraine
    • The Financial
    • 02 July 2011

    EBRD funds Ukrfarm, a subsidiary of the Renaissance Group, to bring an additional 50,000 hectares of land in the Ukraine into crop production.

  • Australia urged to limit foreign buyers of farms
    • AFP
    • 01 July 2011

    Australia's left-leaning Greens party on Friday called for foreign investment laws to be beefed up to cover farming land and water licenses, fearing too much was falling into overseas hands.

  • Land ‘investment’ deals in Africa: Say ‘no way!’
    • Pambazuka
    • 01 July 2011

    Pambazuka News spoke to Anuradha Mittal, Jeff Furman and Frederic Mousseau about what prompted their research on large-scale investments in land in Africa and what they discovered.

  • Lei que regula venda de terras a estrangeiros deve ficar mais rígida
    • Midia News
    • 01 July 2011

    Conforme proposta, governo deve emitir autorização para aquisições acima de cinco hectares

  • Chinese land grab slips under radar: Cobb
    • The Land
    • 01 July 2011

    Minister of Agriculture says Chinese government controlled company's acquisition of some of the Australia's richest food growing areas is too great a risk for the nation.

  • The new African land grab
    • Al Jazeera
    • 01 July 2011

    African farmers do need investment and support. They desperately need decent roads and access to local markets, processing equipment to add value to their own diverse farm produce, storage and drying facilities to prevent post-harvest losses, and basic amenities such as schools and health centres and water wells to improve rural lives, so that farming communities can thrive. But foreign investors are not in business to provide any of these things.

  • Meet the millionaires and billionaires suddenly buying tons of land in Africa
    • Business Insider
    • 01 July 2011

    For obvious reasons, there isn't much out there about who's buying what and how much in Africa. But what OI has discovered is a small number of investors paying sometimes nothing for large plots of land in some African countries.

  • La tierra en manos de fondos de inversión
    • CCS
    • 01 July 2011

    Numerosos fondos de inversión, fondos soberanos e inversores institucionales están adquiriendo tierras de cultivo en países empobrecidos, a expensas de las personas que viven en esas tierras y que dependen de ellas para su subsistencia.

  • PepsiCo looking to farm Chinese market
    • China Daily
    • 01 July 2011

    PepsiCo Inc, the world's second-largest food and beverage company, will continue its investment in China's agricultural sector.

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