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ITB: Bread and Soil: the scramble for land
- BBC
- 06 December 2014
Vast global land transactions take place as nations scramble to ensure they can eat. But are these deals always fair? And what happens when yield countries change their mind?
Counting the cost of food security for the world's richest nations
- BBC
- 05 December 2014
Qatar joins a growing list of countries that includes other Gulf states, India, China and South Korea, that are not just importing food but buying the land abroad on which it is grown.
Paraguay: INDI pide cesar invasión de tierras de una comunidad indígena
- Última Hora
- 05 December 2014
El Instituto Nacional del Indígena (INDI) pidió este viernes al Poder Judicial iniciar el proceso para medir las tierras tituladas a nombre de la comunidad indígena Cuyabia del pueblo ayoreo, que están siendo invadidas por grandes terratenientes, según la ONG Tierraviva.
Japan’s Itochu and CP Group said in talks to invest in Citic
- Bloomberg
- 05 December 2014
Talks with CITIC follow July agreement on business alliance between Itochu, Japan’s third-largest trading company, and the CP Group in an attempt to expand food supply in the world’s most populous region.
Years from the agreement: What’s happening in the community?
- Africa Japan Forum
- 05 December 2014
Japanese NGOs’ fact-finding on ProSAVANA, an agricultural development program implemented in Mozambique by Japanese Official Development Assistance.
Foreign group testing ownership rules
- Western Producer
- 05 December 2014
Non-Canadian owned Skyline Agriculture Financial Corp’s plan could open Saskatchewan to more foreign investment in farmland.
Québec : Le Parlement examinera la spéculation agricole
- Le Soleil
- 05 December 2014
Les fonds d'investissement qui se portent acquéreurs des terres agricoles au Québec se retrouveront au coeur d'un examen parlementaire en 2015.
DRC: handing lands for industrial oil palm plantations, REDD and foreign investors
- WRM
- 04 December 2014
Scrutiny of Feronia's oil palm project shows one more example of many that follow a wave of foreign investment in African farmland, leading to land grabs and conflicts.
Risco de surgimento de famílias sem terra em Moçambique
- UNAC
- 04 December 2014
Hélder Muteia, Representante da FAO em Portugal alerta
International and regional guidelines on land governance and land-based investments: An agenda for African states
- Future Agricultures
- 04 December 2014
Guidelines to improve land governance in the context of large-scale land acquisitions provide an opportunity for affected countries to make necessary reforms to mitigate negative impacts.
Sundrop gets $100m injection from KKR to grow tomatoes in SA desert
- The Age
- 04 December 2014
Sundrop Farms has received a capital injection from private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts to aggressively expand its tomato growing operations in South Australia.
Old Mutual plans to increase Africa footprint by $1 billion
- CPI Financial
- 04 December 2014
New agricultural investments in the pipeline include over $300 million in potential opportunities on the continent (excluding South Africa) which are currently being developed by its various investment teams.