• Saudi Arabia ready to invest in rice development in Indonesia
    • Antara
    • 18 June 2010

    Indonesia's Minister of Agriculture says the Embassy in Riyadh will organize a meeting and formulate regulations on the investment, as a follow-up of his visit to Saudi Arabia

  • Key bullish about Chinese trade prospects
    • Radio New Zealand
    • 18 June 2010

    There are always concerns surrounding foreign ownership, but they're about the wider issue of land ownership and not specifically about China, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said after talks with Chinese Vice-President Xi Jingping

  • Lack of vision for small farmers
    • Jakarta Post
    • 18 June 2010

    Instead of providing land to big corporations, the Indonesian government has a better choice: to redistribute land to the millions of landless and peasant families so they can work again to feed their family.

  • Chinese Government buying up our farms, says Senator Bill Heffernan
    • Daily Telegraph
    • 17 June 2010

    The Chinese Government is buying Australian farms to directly feed its population, a senior Liberal said on the eve of a visit by a top Bejing official.

  • US bean farmers seek Brazil farmland deals
    • Reuters
    • 17 June 2010

    In a small-town spin on a global agricultural investment trend, a group of US Midwest soybean farmers has issued a private placement this month to raise capital for farmland acquisitions in Brazil.

  • Karuturi Global on Ethiopian plans
    • NDTV
    • 16 June 2010

    Sai R Karuturi, founder and MD of Karuturi Global, says the company has acquired a very large piece of land in Ethiopia and has started agricultural production from it.

  • Acquiring farmland abroad
    • Financial Express
    • 16 June 2010

    The Indian government is encouraging private companies to shop for land in countries like Canada, Myanmar, Australia and Argentina to grow crops under long-term supply contracts.

  • Towards a broader view of the politics of global land grab
    • TNI
    • 15 June 2010

    The political dynamics around land are further exposing the inappropriateness of the aggressively promoted mainstream ‘toolkit’ of ‘land governance’.

  • Bénin : Des terres cultivables bradées à des groupes financiers étrangers
    • La Nouvelle Tribune
    • 15 June 2010

    Ce sont les communes de Djidja et de Za-Kpota dans le Zou qui battent le record avec près de 50% des terres cultivables aux mains de ces firmes étrangères.

  • OECD upbeat on getting foreign farm investor code
    • Reuters
    • 15 June 2010

    "It's not something that is going to take too long, it's not rocket science," Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the OECD, said of the planned guidelines on agriculture.

  • La nouvelle bataille du blé entre l'Amérique et la Russie
    • Les Echos
    • 14 June 2010

    La flambée des prix agricoles de 2008 a déclenché en Russie une ruée sur les terres agricoles des investisseurs britanniques, chinois, suédois et coréens. Aujourd'hui, la Russie exporte 14 % du total mondial du marché de blé.

  • Terres préemptées, néo-colonialisme renforcé
    • CADTM
    • 14 June 2010

    Après avoir appauvri les peuples du Sud par une mainmise sur l’exploitation de leurs richesses, la finance internationale s’attaque maintenant à l’appropriation directe de leurs territoires.

  • Noble invests in palm oil production in Indonesia
    • Noble Group
    • 14 June 2010

    The Company intends to develop approximately 32,500 ha of land for palm oil production in Sorong Regency, West Papua Province, Indonesia.

  • Indian companies get into commercial farming in Africa
    • Economic Times
    • 13 June 2010

    Indian tea companies, among others, are making a beeline to acquire estates in Africa. And the government is facilitating their hunt for good deals.

  • Transnational ‘land grabbing’ now a global concern
    • Malaya Business Insight
    • 13 June 2010

    "Land grabbing" will be featured on the agenda of a high-level conference on the rice industry in November 2010 in Vietnam, where 17 agricultural ministers will be in attendance.

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