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Sime Darby accused of bad labor
- New Dawn
- 14 January 2011
Locals in Liberia accuse company of illegally clearing their land and of poor labor and environmental practices.
Peut-on acheter un pays ?
- Tribune de Genève
- 14 January 2011
Les organisations paysannes dénoncent cette menace à la souveraineté alimentaire. L'invitée de Geopolitis : Valentina Hemmeler Maïga, Secrétaire syndicale de l'organisation paysanne suisse Uniterre
Global land grabbing: Eroding food sovereignty
- PAN AP
- 14 January 2011
Land deals, whether as direct purchases or long-term leases, are being brokered in poor countries by advanced capitalist countries and their TNCs
Soros's Adecoagro plans public offering in US, may sell shares to Qatar
- Bloomberg
- 14 January 2011
Adecoagro SA, a farmland venture in South America that’s backed by billionaire George Soros, plans to raise as much as $429 million in an initial public offering in the US as food prices surge.
Food security requires regional cooperation
- The National
- 13 January 2011
Gulf governments have focused almost exclusively on controlling land where food is grown, investing in projects and buying land in North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and central Asia. Perhaps the better strategy would be to look for food closer to home.
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