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SAR100m firm to expand Saudi farm investments
- Arab News
- 29 April 2013
Commerce and Industry Minister Tawfiq Al-Rabiah has approved the establishment of a new East Asia Agricultural Development and Investment Company to invest in farming.
SIAM: 6.200ha de terres agricoles à «investir»
- L'Économiste
- 29 April 2013
L’Agence pour le Développement Agricole du Maroc vient de lancer un nouvel appel d’offres de partenariat public-privé autour des terres agricoles du domaine privé de l’Etat.
Foro global por la Tierra
- Prensa Libre
- 29 April 2013
La semana pasada se celebró en la Antigua el foro global por la Tierra. Gobernanza territorial inclusiva y sostenible para la seguridad alimentaria: compartiendo lecciones de todo el mundo, organizado por la Coalición Internacional por la Tierra.
La extranjerización de la tierra
- El Nuevo Día
- 29 April 2013
Casi desapercibido para los colombianos debido a que no tuvo el eco y la transcendencia que un tema de estos amerita, pasó el foro “Territorio, Extranjerización y Acaparamiento de la Tierra”, que se llevó a cabo en la capital de país la semana anterior
Harvard’s exploitation in Chile
- The Crimson
- 29 April 2013
Harvard’s ownership of Agrícola Brinzal casts serious doubts on the wisdom of Harvard Management Company’s current policies.
Sudan's biggest sugar firm plans biofuel expansion, Joburg IPO
- Reuters
- 29 April 2013
Kenana, which is mainly owned by the governments of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Sudan, is aiming to more than double its annual sugar output to 1 million tonnes by 2015 as the firm seeks new export markets
PAN AP releases a video documentary on land grabbing in Sarawak
- PAN AP
- 29 April 2013
It was their native customary land until palm oil companies came and claimed it their own. With the help of corrupt politicians, almost 9,000 hectares of forest and agricultural lands were flattened. Fences were put up, barring indigenous peoples from entering their own ancestral land. This is the story of Melikin. The story of many indigenous peoples in Sarawak.
Main basse sur la terre
- Ecocampus
- 28 April 2013
Transcription d'une table ronde organisée à Paris le 8 avril 2013 avec Stefano Liberti, Olivier de Schutter, Luc Lamprière et Anne-Cécile Robert
Cambio de escenario: Los pools de siembra en crisis terminal
- La Política Online
- 28 April 2013
Las empresas que arriendan grandes extensiones de tierras están en guerra con los propietarios de los campos que se niegan a asumir riesgos. La suba de costos y los alquileres por las nubes ya no hacen tan atractivo al negocio.
Vietnamese firm to buy crop from Champassak rice farmers
- Vientiane Times
- 27 April 2013
The company will also seek to obtain land concessions for additional rice cultivation in the districts of Soukhouma and Sanasomboun.
Riyadh forum to discuss agricultural investment challenges
- Arab News
- 27 April 2013
A forum of Saudi agricultural investors at the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry will on Sunday discuss the progress of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah’s Initiative for Saudi Agricultural Investment Abroad.
Investors hungry for agriculture
- The Australian
- 27 April 2013
There is "a wall of money" looking for a home in agricultural investments worldwide, say managers for BlackRock's London-based World Agriculture Fund.
Probe confirms Singapore-based palm oil company engaged in land-grabbing in Borneo
- Mongabay
- 26 April 2013
An independent investigation has shown that First Resources Ltd failed to obtain proper consent from local communities before clearing rainforests for plantations in Indonesian Borneo, an Indonesian indigenous rights group reported last week.
Promesas, poder y pobreza: transacciones de tierras y las mujeres rurales en África
- Toma la Palabra
- 26 April 2013
La nueva oleada de inversiones empresariales en tierras parece tener como objetivo la expansión e intensificación de un modelo de cultivo con poca visión de futuro, el cual, hasta la fecha, ha marginado las voces y los intereses de las mujeres.
El país 'no está listo para extranjerizar la tierra', advierte experto
- El Tiempo
- 26 April 2013
Investigador Jorge Garay dice que Colombia debe crear regulación para afrontar estos procesos.