K S Oils acquires more land in Indonesia
    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
    • 07 October 2009
    Le contrat d’agribusiness de VARUN doit être annulé
    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
    • 07 October 2009
    Vita Grain says priority is to support stock-piling of rice in Singapore
    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
    • 06 October 2009
    Españoles que cultivan fuera
    Empresas alimentarias españolas apuestan por producir en el exterior para abastecer el mercado nacional y los de terceros países
    • El País
    • 06 October 2009
    Japan ready to fund agriculture activities in Merauke
    Several companies like Mitsubishi Corporation are interested in promoting Merauke as a new rice barn in Asia.
    • Tempo Interactive
    • 05 October 2009
    Funds: Eastern Europe the focus for "Green Revolution II" investors
    It isn't often you sit down with a fund manager and begin the interview by discussing their new film.
    • Business New Europe
    • 05 October 2009
    This asset is like gold, only better
    Almost half the farmland bought in Britain last year was snapped up by banks and funds.
    • Stockhouse
    • 04 October 2009
    Zardari regime grappling with its credibility
    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.
    • Dawn
    • 04 October 2009
    Grabbing land
    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?
    • The News
    • 04 October 2009
    "Madagascar ne doit pas vendre son eau douce"
    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
    • 02 October 2009
    Speaking freely: China's eye on African agriculture
    China's agricultural investments strategies in Africa are not as self-serving as some critics argue.
    • Asia Times
    • 01 October 2009
    The FSN Forum invites interested parties to an online discussion on farmland acquisitions
    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.
    • FAO
    • 01 October 2009

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