K S Oils, one of India’s leading integrated edible oil food companies Wednesday announced further acquisition of 53,000 acres of land for palm oil plantations in Indonesia. This brings the company’s land bank in Indonesia to 1,38,000 acres [56,000 ha], the largest owned by any Indian company.
- Commodity Online
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07 October 2009
Le contrat de Varun est fortement défavorable aux paysans malgaches. Suspendu depuis plusieurs mois par le pouvoir central, il doit d’urgence être annulé.
- Collectif pour la Défense des Terres Malgaches
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07 October 2009
Vita Grain Group, which is backed by US $60 million of funding, owns more than 20 different strains of hybrid rice seeds. Vita Grain is looking for funding to expand its seed production beyond Africa to Asia, the US and South America. The company is also setting up a rice mill in Mauritius and is in talks with partners in Botswana, Madagascar and Mozambique to develop rice production units.
- Business Times
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06 October 2009
Empresas alimentarias españolas apuestan por producir en el exterior para abastecer el mercado nacional y los de terceros países
Several companies like Mitsubishi Corporation are interested in promoting Merauke as a new rice barn in Asia.
- Tempo Interactive
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05 October 2009
It isn't often you sit down with a fund manager and begin the interview by discussing their new film.
- Business New Europe
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05 October 2009
Almost half the farmland bought in Britain last year was snapped up by banks and funds.
- Stockhouse
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04 October 2009
The Zardari government is on trial with respects to three developments, of which the possible lease of land to Saudi Arabia and some other Arab countries, because they are of historical significance for Pakistan.
A significant percentage of the manual labour force on arable land in Pakistan is female. If we lease this land to Saudi Arabia -- a country where women are not allowed to drive cars, vote, work in public places with a namehram -- to do with as it pleases -- will there still, across the proposed acreage reportedly twice the size of Hong Kong, be room for them?
Le parti vert malgache n'est pas contre l'accès à la terre des étrangers, mais il faut que l'Etat s'occupe des Malgaches d'abord.
- Courrier International
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02 October 2009
China's agricultural investments strategies in Africa are not as self-serving as some critics argue.
- Asia Times
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01 October 2009
The discussion “Land Grab or Development opportunity?” has just been launched at by FAO's Global Food Security and Nutrition Forum and invites members to comment and share their views on the issue of foreign acquisitions of developing countries’ farmland.