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Afrique Centrale : Un document cadre pour les réformes foncières
- CED
- 16 November 2012
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 targets Africa’s agriculture boom with $100 million plan
- Bloomberg
- 16 November 2012
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 accused over biofuel 'tainted with Indian blood'
- Survival
- 15 November 2012
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.
Tunisie : Talleyrand mise sur la terre... et la presse
- Africa Intelligence
- 15 November 2012
Détenu à parts égales par le patron de presse Robert Lafont (Lafont presse, plus connu pour son mensuel Entreprendre) et par Gilles Bouchier, le fonds français Talleyrand va mettre un pied dans l'agriculture tunisienne
Dubai’s AWGAL in talks to purchase Texas cattle farms
- Arabian Business
- 14 November 2012
Dubai-based AWGAL Investments is in advanced talks with farmers in Texas to invest in cattle farms to produce Halal-certified US beef for the GCC and MENA region.
Une entreprise chinoise va exploiter des terres agricoles dans l'ouest de l'Australie
- Xinhua
- 14 November 2012
Shanghai Zhongfu s'est vue attribuer un contrat qui va lui permettre, dans le cadre d'un bail de 50 ans, d'exploiter 15 200 hectares de riches terres agricoles, irriguées par la rivière Ord.
L'Office du Niger s'ouvre aux investisseurs des pays de l'UEMOA
- L'Essor
- 14 November 2012
L’organisation sous-régionale y a lancé un projet d’aménagement dont l’objectif est d’en faire le grenier à riz de l’Afrique de l’Ouest
The great Africa land grab
- The Ecologist
- 14 November 2012
Oxfam’s Phil Bloomer reports on the shocking scandal of (mostly) secretive land-grabbing, usually from those least able to defend their rights.
Chinese secure northern foodbowl as row over Ord River lease continues
- The Australian
- 14 November 2012
Chinese property development conglomerate Shanghai Zhongfu has won the sole right to develop 15,200ha of high-value irrigated agricultural land in northern Australia..
Adecoagro data raise fears over Argentine farmland
- Agrimoney
- 14 November 2012
Adecoagro, the South American farm operator backed by George Soros and Dwight Anderson, said that growth in the value of its huge land portfolio slowed to 5.6%, fuelling concerns over the impact of Argentine curbs on foreign investors.
Spotlight on "land grab" deals
- IRIN
- 14 November 2012
A new study puts "land-grab" deals into the context of agricultural investments more generally.
Carlyle Group to make Africa investment
- Wall Street Journal
- 13 November 2012
Carlyle is part of a small group of investors that will inject $210 million into Export Trading Group, a Tanzania-based agricultural company that controls at least 60,000 hectares of farmland in Africa.
La majorité des terres agricoles demeure la propriété de Québécois
- Radio Canada
- 13 November 2012
La Coop fédérée est toutefois préoccupée par le phénomène et réclame la mise sur pied d'un registre sur les transactions dans le milieu agricole,
Advierten sobre proceso de concentración de la tierra en Latinoamérica
- Terra
- 13 November 2012
Los especialistas precisaron que "el antiguo latifundio ha dado paso a grandes empresas capitalistas insertas en los circuitos del comercio internacional"
Louis Dreyfus lifts the lid on its ag operations
- Agrimoney
- 13 November 2012
Louis Dreyfus lifted the lid on commodities operations such as its 45 orange groves, and unveiled a healthy appetite for investment, as, after 160 years, it unveiled its first public results statement.