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Should you invest in farmland?
- Wall Street Journal
- 28 Mar 2014
Wealthy investors can diversify beyond stocks and bonds by owning cornfields. John Taylor of U.S. Trust says farmland produces capital gains as well as income.
Chinese, Mideast funds to invest in Russian agricultural venture
- Wall Street Journal
- 28 Mar 2014
The Russian Direct Investment Fund said it was leading a consortium buying a $200M stake in Sodrugestvo, a Luxembourg-based crop producer operating in Russia, several ex-Soviet states, Brazil and Northern Europe.
Ukraine: Divvying up the breadbasket of Europe
- Registan
- 28 Mar 2014
As witnessed many times before, Ukraine is once again at a flashpoint for foreign powers to divvy up the “Breadbasket of Europe.”
Romania: Land for sale
- WPJ
- 28 Mar 2014
Due to the high cost of land back home, lack of credit, and a paralyzing bureaucracy, Italian farmers are moving from Italy to Romania where it is easier to start a farm.
Foreign investment in agriculture
- ABC
- 27 Mar 2014
Should foreign investment in Australian agricultural land and infrastructure be strictly limited? An Intelligence Squared debate presented by the St James Ethics Centre at Sydney's City Recital Hall.
Asian investors 'face more scrutiny' on farm deals, says Fitzgibbon
- The Australian
- 27 Mar 2014
Trade deal with South Korea cuts the value of Australian farmland purchases that attract scrutiny from the Foreign Investment Review Board from $53 million to $15m.
Foreign investors often blamed for Africa land grabs conducted by local ruling elites
- Reuters
- 27 Mar 2014
Studies raise serious concern about a process of land conversion that favours a small, but growing middle and upper class of Africans who are starting their farming ‘careers’ with relatively large land holdings.
Greed for land boosts hunger
- DW
- 27 Mar 2014
The World Bank is discussing ways to counter land grabbing but critics have charged the organization with participating in land grabbing itself.
Macquarie adds to its holdings in WA farmland
- Central Advocate
- 27 Mar 2014
Investment bank Macquarie Group is buying two farms in Australia's "wheatbelt" bringing its total holdings in Western Australia to 45,000 ha.
L’expansion des plantations d’huile de palme stoppée au Liberia
- Basta!
- 27 Mar 2014
Des villageois ont fait reculer de puissantes multinationales, et cela se passe au Liberia.
Ethiopie : l’inquiétude augmente face à la crise humanitaire dans la vallée inférieure de l’Omo
- Survival France
- 27 Mar 2014
Des personnalités politiques européennes et américaines unissent leurs voix à l’inquiétude internationale concernant le barrage de Gibe III et les plantations irriguées qui lui sont associées.
Western au Paraguay : dernier eldorado néolibéral
- Mediapart
- 26 Mar 2014
Au Paraguay, le documentariste Daniele Incalcaterra hérite de son père de terres achetées trente ans plus tôt sous la dictature de Stroessner. Souhaitant rompre avec cette logique de dépossession de la terre des Paraguayens par les investisseurs étrangers, il décide de se rendre sur place pour rendre les terres aux Indiens Guarani-Ñandeva.
Fadel Barro: « Les raisons de notre indignation d’hier sont toujours d’actualité »
- Senego
- 26 Mar 2014
Le coordonnateur du Mouvement Y En A Marre fait le bilan des deux ans de pouvoir de Macky Sall et dénonce la poursuite du projet Sen-huile Sen-éthanol.
Denuncian lentitud e irregularidades en la restitución de tierras en Colombia
- La Información
- 26 Mar 2014
En los dos primeros años de implementación de la Ley de Víctimas en Colombia el Estado solo ha restituido 20.694 hectáreas de las más de seis millones despojadas por actores armados en las últimas dos décadas.
Argentina: Un departamento de Chubut excede el límite de tenencia de tierras en manos de propietarios extranjeros
- Diario Jornada
- 26 Mar 2014
El Ministerio de Justicia y Derechos Humanos dio el primer pantallazo general en relación al mapa de extranjerización de las tierras en todo el país.