“Every day I field calls from potential investors, from pension funds, from family businesses that want to buy” from inside and outside Canada, said Doug Emsley, president of Assiniboia Capital Corp.
- Bloomberg
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08 November 2012
An Australian farmer has voiced concerns about a Chinese company's $29 million purchase of 23,000 ha of prime, grain-growing land in Western Australia's south.
There is a new, but deceptive, foreign drive to end hunger in Africa through large-scale agribusiness.
- Pambazuka
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08 November 2012
A new report by PRI offers some really useful information for investors interested in accessing farmland opportunities, with five case studies of funds making farmland investments.
- Institutional Investor
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08 November 2012
Romanian authorities have a history of giving up fertile agricultural land to foreign companies or Romanian “fat-cats”, all to the detriment of small scale, diverse, economically sustainable and environmentally sound agriculture.
By virtue of Dominion Farms’ responsibility to train young students in farming techniques in Kenya and then absorb them into the enterprise or equip them for owning their own enterprises, this is not your typical land-grabbing project, writes Tukeni Obasi
- Business Day
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08 November 2012
The Asia-Europe People’s Forum has urged the 51 state leaders of the Asia-Europe Meeting Summit to protect the tenure rights of small-scale food producers and to ensure a more equitable governance of natural resources.
- Inquirer
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08 November 2012
Selon le Parlement européen, la cause de l'escalade de violations des droits de l’Homme au Cambodge est clairement liée à l’accaparement des terres liés aux exportations vers l’Union européenne.
Le développement agricole accru en Zambie compromettra en réalité la sécurité alimentaire du pays, puisque des fermiers continuent d’être chassés de leurs terres coutumières pour ouvrir la voie à l’agro-industrie locale et étrangère à grande échelle.
Study estimates that foreign investors have acquired between 10–14 per cent of the total agricultural land in Laos.
The eastern Europe farm operator ditched its last hopes of avoiding a return into the red after disease at its dairy herd added to the pressure on profits from poor weather for its arable operations.
- Agrimoney
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07 November 2012
Implanté à Fanaye puis suspendu sur instructions du gouvernement libéral avant d’être délocalisé dans la zone périphérique de la réserve du Diayel, à cheval sur les communautés rurales de Diama, Ronkh et Ngnith, le projet Sen éthanol n’en finit pas de provoquer du bruit.
- Le Quotidien
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07 November 2012