Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi feels a growing sense of unease these days. It stems from an email that Karuturi received on March 7. The sender wrote he had lost Rs 7 lakh by investing in Karuturi Global Ltd's shares.
- Business Today
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09 April 2013
Le journaliste italien Stefano Liberti a enquêté de l’Ethiopie au Brésil, du Middle West américain à la Bourse de Chicago, en passant par l’Arabie saoudite, la Tanzanie et la Suisse sur le phénomène des accaparements de terre. Son livre "Main basse sur la terre", vient de paraître en français.
Un estudio presentado por Gabriel Oyhantçabal e Ignacio Narbondo demuestra varios datos interesantes. Veamos apenas dos: 1) El aumento del precio promedio de la tierra en operaciones de compraventa y 2) El surgimiento del “rentista”.
Under an obscure 50,000 ha land deal with Macdom and Rating Investments, 250,000 communal farmers stand to lose or have already lost their lands and livelihoods.
The World Bank formally reiterates its concern over the large-scale corporate “land grabbing” that has affected vast swathes of Africa in recent years.
Ram Karuturi mulls taking his rose-to-maize company private as its stock shows no signs of bouncing back.
- Business Today
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08 April 2013
China's ambassador says New Zealand has "over thought" his country's interest in acquiring land here, claiming other major farm purchases are unlikely.
- Fairfax News
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07 April 2013
People who feel wronged by large scale land deals in Africa are taking a variety of steps to seek justice, according to new research that examines the accountability of public authorities that preside over such deals.
It covers about 700,000 hectares in Mozambique, and is based on a project that Japan implemented in Brazil in the 1970s, which revolutionised agricultural production in an area now regarded as the most productive in Brazil.
- The Zimbabwean
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05 April 2013
Programa agrícola de investimentos entre Brasil, Japão e Moçambique para desenvolver a agricultura numa área de aproximadamente 14,5 milhões de hectares no país africano, o ProSavana está gerando polêmica.
A group representing Wisconsin farmers said its lobbying agenda this spring will include opposition to Gov. Scott Walker's plan to eliminate limits on foreign land ownership.
- Leader-Telegram
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04 April 2013
Joint investment company will harness Sudan's resources in agriculture and livestock in line with the foreign economic policy of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah.