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Kingdom, Canada boost trade ties
- Saudi Gazette
- 28 June 2009
Trade minister Stockwell Day said that Canada stands to benefit from the Saudi Kingdom’s overseas agricultural investment initiative and that the Canadian Parliament is studying it.
Lula approves bill allowing squatters rights in Amazon
- Guardian
- 28 June 2009
Environmentalists — who have dubbed it the “land-grabbers bill” — fear the new rules will offer a carte blanche for those wanting to make money by destroying the Amazon.
The poor struggle for bargaining power in land disputes - world leaders aren't turning blind eye
- San Francisco Examiner
- 27 June 2009
When people are using lands under customary tenure arrangements, there is an inequality in bargaining power where no formal titles to the land exist if a foreign investor is interested in purchasing the land.
The worldwide grab of farmland and water resources
- Ghana News
- 27 June 2009
Together with GMO, the land grab wave that is spreading across Africa and other countries in the "developing world" should be brought to the attention of all interested Ghanaians. It is important for Ghanaians to avoid falling for it.
La Guinée veut composer avec les Emirats arabes unis
- Les Afriques
- 27 June 2009
Parmi les propositions alléchantes figurent aussi en bonne place les financements des investissements privés, avec, pour composante, le bail emphytéotique d’une partie des 3 500 000 ha de terres cultivables que possède le pays.
Zambie : des firmes américaines et émiraties s'intéressent aux exploitations agricoles
- Les Afriques
- 27 June 2009
Selon le ministre de l'Agriculture, Brian Chituwo, des entreprises américaines et émiraties sont intéressées par la création de grandes exploitations agricoles en Zambie, pour cultiver du sucre et des céréales.
Cambodian fund Leopard Capital makes two new investments
- AltAssets
- 26 June 2009
The Leopard Cambodia Fund has set aside $1.8m to establish Cambodia Plantations, a Singapore-based company which will serve as an offshore finance vehicle for agricultural investments in central Cambodia. The drawdown will fund the establishment of a subsidiary that is in the process of obtaining a land concession in the province of Kompong Chhnang for rice cultivation.
Colombia: No a tierras a los extranjeros
- Argenpress
- 26 June 2009
Sembrar alimentos para proveer a las necesidades de los grandes conglomerados y de las potencias dejará aún más expósita la ya diezmada soberanía alimentaria de Colombia.
Food pirates: Indian firms buying farm land in Africa
- Ground Reality
- 26 June 2009
I wonder why the people (and more importantly the political leaders and elite) of the African and Latin American countries are not opposing and driving these companies out from within their national borders. The reason is simple. The rich and elite of every country is the real beneficiary of the process of globalisation.
China’s shrinking farmland
- Perspectives
- 26 June 2009
Latin America is surely one of the most attractive places for China to invest in arable land and food industries.
Some large investors views on farmland
- Ag Capita
- 26 June 2009
Soros recently became the largest shareholder in Adecoagro one of the leading agribusiness companies in South America whose main activities are the production of grains, rice, oilseed, dairy products, sugar, ethanol, coffee, cotton and cattle meat.
FAO: International investments in agricultural production
- FAO
- 25 June 2009
Paper presented at the Expert Meeting on “How to Feed the World in 2050,” FAO, Rome 24-26 June 2009