Saudi Arabia's strategy is to encourage the Saudi private sector to invest abroad using their financial surpluses, their ‘ag’ experience and the modern production and irrigation technology they have.
- Global AgInvesting
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28 October 2014
The growing Ebola virus outbreak not only highlights the tragedy enveloping the areas most affected but also offers a commentary on they way in which the political ecology in West Africa has allowed this disease to become established.
- The Conversation
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28 October 2014
Le projet de développement d'une ferme de gibier de 46 000 ha par l'oligarque russe Rashid Sardarov, près de Windhoek, perturbe un programme d'exploitation de fer dans la zone.
- African Intelligence
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28 October 2014
À frente de lavouras de algodão, feijão, milho e sorgo no Sudão desde 2009, em parceria com o Ministério da Agricultura do país africano, o Grupo Pinesso deve aumentar seus investimentos na África com a implantação de 45 mil hectares de milho irrigado a partir de 2015.
The gruesome massacre in the Gambella region of Western Ethiopia was a direct consequence of the ill-fated land grab policy of the Ethiopian government.
El 9% del total de tierras rurales argentinas están en condiciones legales de pasar a manos extranjeras.
- Diario BAE
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27 October 2014
More than 1 million hectares of forest terrain and land leased by private companies has been put under government control since a moratorium on new economic land concessions was initiated in May 2012.
- Phnom Penh Post
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27 October 2014
China's ravenous demand for Australian beef could soon lead to some major cattle station purchases, with one of several Chinese importers, Snow Dragon Group, looking to buy land.
Wilmar subsidiary says it is targeting a total investment of US$100 million on 20,000 hectares of farmland to produce 100,000 metric tonnes of edible oils per annum.
- Zambia Daily Mail
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27 October 2014
UAE-based Al Dahra Agriculture aims to pump water from the country's Aswan High Dam reservoir and deliver it via a 50-kilometre canal to 100,000 acres of reclaimed farmland 60 km from the border with Sudan.
Un guide et une grille d’analyse pour la coopération française
- Comité Technique Foncier et Développement
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27 October 2014
A June 2014 interview with farmer Erastus Odindo about his community's struggle to defend their lands from US-based Dominion Farms