Several Indian companies have planned huge investments in the African mining and agriculture sectors, buoyed by the prospects of high returns, on the back of rich resources and low labour and input costs, stakeholders maintain.
- Economic Times
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05 April 2011
Foreign investments help Ethiopia to develop, and provide knowledge, skills and taxes, says Ethiopia's Ambassador to the UK.
Comment les pays riches et la finance internationale font main basse sur les terres arables du monde. Une remarquable enquête sur un phénomène qui s'accélère, de l'Arabie Saoudite à l'Uruguay, des États-Unis à l'Éthiopie. À ne pas manquer le mardi 19 avril 2011 à 20:40 sur ARTE France.
The issue of land grabbing has been on the agenda for some years now, but it seems that the academic focus is changing.
Around 800 farmers protested Friday against a government decision to seize land from a village in Gezira state, Sudan's agricultural heartland, without compensating the owners, witnesses said.
Das Klima ist ideal, Arbeitskräfte sind billig und die lukrativsten Märkte sind nur wenige Flugstunden entfernt. In Äthiopien züchten Investoren tonnenweise Gemüse und Reis. Jedoch nicht für die Bevölkerung.
- Der Tagesspiegel
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03 April 2011
La planète est à vendre: effrayante réalité que nous montre Alexis Marant dans un judicieux documentaire "Planète à vendre" que vous pourrez voir sur Arte le mardi 19 avril 2011.
La diputada nacional Verónica Benas (PARES-Santa Fe) es autora de una iniciativa que pretende regular la extranjerización de la tierra y que será tratado en el Congreso este año, junto a otros siete que versan sobre la misma problemática.
SAO PAULO. China planea invertir unos 10 mil millones de dólares en la producción, acopio y transporte de soja (soya) en Brasil para asegurarse la provisión del producto del que es el principal importador mundial, informó este domingo la prensa local.
South Africa's commercial farmers say they will continue setting up in other countries to flee "unreasonable" laws, such as a new bill the government says will "stop cruelty against farm workers".
Wilmar's take-over of Sucrogen gave the company a significant amount of cane land that it increased with the purchase of additional farms to guarantee cane supply, outbidding local farmers for land.
- North Queensland Register
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03 April 2011
Prime minister's adviser on science and innovation wants Australian companies to consider buying land in Mozambique to counterbalance foreign purchases of farming land in Australia and shore up Australia's food supply.
- Sydney Morning Herald
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03 April 2011
