"We don't invest in commodities; the trend is for them to fall. The value is in owning the land ... And we are not investing in land anywhere else in the world, except Brazil," says Daniel Ward of the Virginia Tech endowment
Afrifresh manages 14 farms across South Africa, with over 3,000 hectares under irrigation, in addition to its export agency business.
The company is currently looking at concluding another deal in Africa as well as other opportunities on behalf of regional investors for large scale production of crops in areas such as Africa, Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
The Verkhovna Rada's committee on agricultural policy and land relations is checking reports that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is renting farmland in Ukraine
Se entregarían 240 mil hectáreas para el cultivo a la empresa estatal china Heilongjiang Beidahuang. Antes de cosechar soja, el acuerdo ya cosecha críticas de parte de organizaciones comunitarias y ambientalistas.
Le géant agro-industriel ivoirien Sifca a réalisé à quelques semaines d'intervalle deux opérations majeures dans le caoutchouc (22 000 ha) et l’huile de palme (8 800 ha).
Felda Holdings, the world's largest estate owner, is in talks to buy up to 90,000ha of land across South-East Asia
Karuturi's 15 John Deere tractors plough 500 hectares a day on its 300,000 land concession in the Gambella region of Ethiopia. This is land clearance on a gigantic scale.
L‘accaparement des terres dans certains pays, y compris le Pérou, est mené par les investisseurs domestiques, encouragés par les marchés agricoles internationaux avec le soutien de leurs propres gouvernements.
L‘accaparement des terres dans certains pays, y compris le Pérou, est mené par les investisseurs domestiques, encouragés par les marchés agricoles internationaux avec le soutien de leurs propres gouvernements.
En 2010, China pasó de ser el 29° inversor extranjero en Argentina a ubicarse posiblemente como el tercero.
Foreign investment in Australia's food chain is increasing at a rate that is causing concern, and not just for people on the land.
La creación de empresa mixta entre Venezuela y China (Beidahuang), permitirá aumentar la producción de alimentos en Venezuela.
Brazil is preparing rules that will block foreign governments, state-owned companies and speculators from buying agricultural land while allowing in “genuine” private sector investors.
Investors from UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain are currently planning to inrease investment in the agriculture sector of the Philippines as part of their government’s food security programmes.
