Analysis: Foreign investors in Australian farms; rash or prescient?
- Reuters
- 19 November 2012
For all the willing buyers seeking tracts of Australian farm land, local investors are not among them. They wonder what all the fuss is about.
For all the willing buyers seeking tracts of Australian farm land, local investors are not among them. They wonder what all the fuss is about.
Por iniciativa del senador Jorge Enrique Robledo, del Polo Democrático Alternativo, la Comisión Quinta del Senado adelantará hoy un nuevo debate al proyecto de ley que busca poner límites al acceso a la propiedad de la tierra en Colombia por parte de personas naturales o jurídicas extranjeras.
Avant l'arrivée de M. Obama à Phnom Penh, des Cambodgiens avaient organisé des manifestations pour attirer son attention sur les expulsions forcées liées à des différends en matière de propriété foncière, un problème de premier plan au Cambodge.
Continued economic uncertainties are prompting a back-to-the-land movement among investors. And a favored choice of land is farmland.
2174 ha. C’est la superficie du casier hydraulique de Touraba en zone Office du Niger. Un chantier de l’Uemoa qui vise à créer un pôle agricole sous régional au Mali… Visite guidée.
Oil palm giant, Wilmar Nigeria Limited, and the Rainforest Resource and Development Centre (RRDC), an environmental rights group, are currently at logger heads over a massive land grab in a rural community in Cross River State, Southern Nigeria.
Africa is regarded as the New Eldorado, and is attracting many foreign based private or public investment companies, sovereign wealth funds and even pension funds gradually. Sadly, while foreigners continue to play a major role in growth investments, African pension funds' contributions to this growth are dismal.
La présence de la société HERAKLES dans la région a toujours été perçue comme un facteur d'insécurité pour ceux qui s'opposent au projet, et comme une menace pour les droits des communautés locales.
A corrida por terras agrícolas levou investidores estrangeiros a adquirir pelo menos 83 milhões de hectares em países em desenvolvimento entre 2000 e 2010, segundo o Deutsche Bank.
Trois organisations ont produit un document de propositions pour un traitement juridique plus adéquat des cessions de terres à grande échelle en Afrique Centrale.
Agco Corp. (AGCO), the world’s third- largest farm-equipment maker, plans to invest $100 million in Africa over the next three years to capitalize on an agricultural boom and a shift to commercial farming.
US food giant Bunge has been implicated in a sugarcane scandal in Brazil that has kept an entire indigenous community off its land, polluted streams and inflicted illness and death on Guarani Indians.