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China tills vigorously at African agro opportunities
- Business Standard
- 09 September 2011
Speaking at the annual African Cup of Investment Management, Alex Pestana said China had invested in arable land in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Mozambique.
‘Landgrab' overseas
- Frontline
- 09 September 2011
AN extraordinary new process has been at work in the past few years: the aggressive entry of Indian corporations into the markets for agricultural land in Africa, writes Jayati Gosh
FAO land-deal guidelines: will they have teeth?
- AlertNet
- 08 September 2011
As large-scale land purchases for food production become commonplace, the FAO is finalising a set of guidelines to help improve land-tenure governance and encourage transparency in deals.
Chineses e árabes procuram terrenos férteis para produzir no País
- IG
- 08 September 2011
Para Incra, esses investimentos podem não apresentar melhora significativa no desenvolvimento econômico do meio rural do Brasil
Corrida por terras com escassez de alimentos tem Brasil como alvo
- IG
- 08 September 2011
Governo e entidades mundiais debatem regras para compra de terrenos em cenário de crescente falta de comida para todos
País quer diferenciar terra de estrangeiro sem discriminá-los
- IG
- 08 September 2011
Câmara dos Deputados debate assunto para chegar a um projeto de lei que contemple todos os envolvidos no processo
“Hay más de 18 millones de hectáreas en manos de extranjeros" alertó Buzzi
- Rafaela.com
- 08 September 2011
El presidente de la Federación Agraria arrojó ese dato en conferencia de prensa, haciendo mención a la "Ley de Extranjerización". Agregó que "merece una discusión profunda en el Congreso".
Farmland investment booming in Africa
- AltAssets
- 08 September 2011
"As investors we always want to be on the correct side of global macro trends, and whatever China needs or is buying lots of, we want to own as investments."
Etiopia, la rapina delle terre da parte di investitori indiani avanza nonostante la siccità e la fame.
- Il Fatto Alimentare
- 08 September 2011
Il Corno d’Africa è afflitto dalla più grave tragedia umanitaria che la sua storia ricordi. Siccità e fame, 12 milioni di persone senza cibo né acqua. Ma il “neocolonialismo agricolo” procede indisturbato.
US company looking to farm rice in Nigeria and Tanzania left trail of devastation in Kenya
- GRAIN
- 07 September 2011
The people living on the lands now being targeted by US-owned Dominion Farms can learn a lot from the film Good Fortune, which provides a behind-the-scenes account of the struggle of a local community in Kenya to defend their lands from this company.
Simmering tension over forest give-away
- IRIN
- 07 September 2011
A plan to replace a large swathe of protected rainforest in Uganda with sugarcane could lead to further civil unrest in a year when nine people have been killed during strikes and protests against the rising cost of living.
AEW Capital launches unit to acquire farmland
- Boston Business Journal
- 07 September 2011
AEW Capital Management of Boston is launching a new investment division to acquire farmland in the United States and Canada.
Making investment work for Africa: A Parliamentarian response to “land grabs”
- PAP
- 07 September 2011
Report from the seminar on foreign investment in agricultural land and water, organized by the Pan African Parliament
Ibrahima Coulibaly, président de la CNOP Mali
- IPAR
- 07 September 2011
Ibrahima Coulibaly est le président de la Coordination Nationale des Organisations Paysannes du Mali. En marge de la rencontre organisée en juillet 2011 par l’Alliance Internationale Terre Citoyenne, où la question de l’accaparement des terres et des ressources naturelles était au cœur des débats, il a accepté de se confier à l’IPAR.
Foreign bid for slice of sugar
- Daily Mercury
- 07 September 2011
While foreign investment is nothing new in the Australian sugar industry, the rate at which foreign companies have been pouring money into the industry has caused some concern among canegrowers.