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Agriculture sector offers up opportunities and ethical issues
- Interactive Investor
- 13 November 2011
In addition to the potential ethical issues, many investors were disappointed by the returns from early farmland investments.
AAF statement regarding land policy in Africa
- Phatisa
- 12 November 2011
In August 2011, Phatisa concluded its first transaction to invest US$ 10 million alongside the Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation Limited (FINNFUND) and the Company’s Sponsors, in Goldtree a palm oil plantation and milling company in Sierra Leone, representing a total investment of US$ 20 million.
Conferencia Internacional Campesina: ¡Basta de acaparamiento de tierras!
- 11 November 2011
La conferencia tendrá lugar en Sélingué del 17 al 19 de noviembre de 2011, y reunirá a casi 200 campesinos/as afectados/as por acaparamiento de tierras
Anuradha Mittal at Moana Nui
- Vimeo
- 11 November 2011
Anuradha Mittal of Oakland Institute speaking on land grabs at Moana Nui, November 2011
This land is our land
- worldsocialism.org
- 11 November 2011
Corporate agriculture is not about food production or satisfying the needs of the undernourished or downright starving but about producing profit. How long can it be before its limits are reached?
OPIC approves $150 mln in financing for Egypt's Citadel
- Daily News Egypt
- 10 November 2011
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the US government’s development finance institution, approved Wednesday a $150 mln financial package that will go to Citadel Capital, a regional private equity firm that just completed its first wheat harvest in Sudan.
Battle over the Yala Swamp: Multimillion investment turns out to be a case of a deal gone sour
- Reject
- 10 November 2011
The Dominion Farms at Yala Swamp, Kenya has seen the local community turn against what they initially welcomed with open hands.
UK royals told of land grabbing, herders tell UK royals
- The Citizen
- 09 November 2011
Pastoralists yesterday told Prince Charles that foreigners were acquiring huge tracts of land in many areas across Africa for cultivating biofuel plants and for caring out conservation programmes at the expense of the indigenous people who were left landless.
Rogers in town to buy the farm
- AFR
- 09 November 2011
Commodities trader Jim Rogers, known for his investment prowess alongside George Soros, is in Australia to launch a new rural land fund which is seeking to raise up to $350 million to buy farms in northern NSW
Western Australia to release 15,200 hectares of new farm land
- IIFL
- 09 November 2011
Western Australia announced it will make available 15,200 hectares of new irrigable farm land near Kununurra in the state's deep north, more than doubling the size of an existing irrigation area, with the government hoping to attract interest from foreign investors.
Mercado de grandes propriedades no Brasil atinge recorde, diz estudo
- IHU
- 09 November 2011
O relatório afirma que o Brasil e a China continuam sendo destinos preferidos de investidores que buscam aplicações em propriedades no exterior.
China courts partners to step up investment in Argentina
- Market News International
- 08 November 2011
In Africa, the strategy is to buy land. But in Argentina, they are forming associations that allow them to grow crops and guarantee food supplies for their population.
Foreign buyers grinding out mill deals
- Sydney Morning Herald
- 08 November 2011
Two of the last big Australian-owned sugar mills, Maryborough and Proserpine, could soon be sold to foreign buyers in takeover deals worth more than $350 million.
Kiwis against farms to foreigners - poll
- Waikato Times
- 08 November 2011
A survey shows New Zealanders are overwhelmingly opposed to foreign ownership of New Zealand farmland – but three weeks out from the election there is no sign the main political parties will make a fight of defending our turf.
Cambodia: Contract for acacia and sugar cane plantation with Heng Yue International (China)
- 08 November 2011
Contract between the Government of Cambodia and the Chinese company Heng Yue International for a 8,959 ha concession for the production of acacia and sugar cane.