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Multinational eyes farmland
- Sunshine Coast Daily
- 13 January 2011
Is the Sunshine Coast at risk of losing the farm to foreign interests?
Responsible investment in commodities
- onValues
- 13 January 2011
Holdings in productive assets such as farmland can be managed to a high degree of ESG performance, but require a commensurately high degree of investor expertise, says this report sponsored by the Swiss government
Mitsui to pay 40 billion yen for Brazil company, Nikkei reports
- Bloomberg
- 12 January 2011
Mitsui plans to buy 44.2% of Brazilian grain broker Multigrain SA, who owns in excess of 100,000 ha of farmland, equal to 2% of the total cultivated land of Japan
How not to think about land-grabbing
- ILC
- 12 January 2011
Accelerating the shift towards large-scale, highly mechanized forms of agriculture will not solve the problem of hunger: it will make it worse.
Show guts on foreign land ownership, union tells Zuma
- Times Live
- 12 January 2011
Nehawu, the powerful union representing education and health workers, wants President Jacob Zuma to ban or at least limit foreign land ownership in South Africa.
Comment aborder différemment le sujet de l’accaparement des terres
- ILC
- 12 January 2011
Céder des terres aux investisseurs résultera en un type d’exploitation agricole dont l’impact, en termes de réduction de la pauvreté, est bien moindre que si on améliorait l’accès des communautés agricoles locales à la terre
Ukraine’s agriculture companies may raise $1 billion this year
- Bloomberg
- 12 January 2011
Parliament will consider in March a draft law that would open up the possibility of agricultural land sales
Food reserve planned, but imports leave UAE vulnerable
- The National
- 12 January 2011
Several national companies and even the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the capital's sovereign fund, are planning investments in agriculture in countries as diverse as Vietnam, Cambodia, Pakistan, Australia, Romania and the United States.
S.African farmers look for greener pastures abroad
- AFP
- 12 January 2011
Thousands of white South African farmers are leaving their homeland to work abroad due to post-apartheid land reforms, a shortage of affordable territory and severe water shortages.
Food enough, land enough?
- Svenska kyrkan
- 11 January 2011
Publication from Church of Sweden, Swedish Cooperative Center and Forum Syd aims to contribute to a renewed discussion about how the world’s food supply, trade in food and different agricultural strategies are linked to world hunger.
Indonesian gov't to expand farmland by 2 million hectares
- Xinhua
- 11 January 2011
The government also invites foreign investors to develop animal husbandry, aimed at securing livestock supplies.
Food price rise fueling inflation: JP Morgan
- Reuters
- 11 January 2011
Catherine Flax, JP Morgan's CEO for Commodities, says that investors and even countries are looking at assets such as agricultural land.
Indian puts food security at heart of Africa agenda
- IANS
- 10 January 2011
'We want responsible investment by Indian companies,' Gurjit Singh, joint secretary in charge of east and southern Africa said amid allegations by some critics that Indian companies are indulging in land grab in Africa.
Govt tightens foreign investment rules
- Farmers Weekly
- 10 January 2011
NZ Finance Minister says new test of more than 10 times the average farm size for foreigners buying land is not a cap.
Ukraine : Privatiser les terres pour soutenir la production agricole (Premier ministre)
- La France Agricole
- 10 January 2011
Le Premier ministre a expliqué l'acquisition de terres à grande échelle par des étrangers pourrait être limitée par des dispositions législatives.