Argentina Tourism Minister Carlos Meyer has hailed Qatar Airways’ flights from Buenos Aires to Doha as an important step for enhanced ties between the two countries, including farmland acquisitions.
- Gulf Times
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02 December 2010
Complex web of data reveals large swathes of country controlled by small number of billionaires and large companies
Transcription d'une table ronde organisée à Paris le 8 avril 2013 avec Stefano Liberti, Olivier de Schutter, Luc Lamprière et Anne-Cécile Robert
A new website has been launched this week to monitor the devastating impact of illegal large-scale commercial agriculture as a driver of global deforestation.
Sime Darby Plantation Sdn Bhd is exploring opportunities in other African countries besides Liberia for its palm oil business expansion.
- The Star
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18 September 2009
Australia's opposition leader Tony Abbott said his Liberal-National coalition of center-right parties could revise the country's foreign investment laws if it wins power in the Aug. 21 general election.
International executives urged Russia to maximise its potential by encouraging more private investment and opening up more land to foreign investors.
"The rush for land by outside players is more proof of the enormous potential of African agriculture. Africa itself must harness this potential," Kofi Annan says
As many foreign and local investor are seeking to win a license to invest in the giant agriculture project in Papua, Indonesia, one unnamed South Korean investor has obtained a permit. Mitsubishi is also bidding. Binladin Group has been rejected.
- Tempo Interaktif
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10 February 2010
Unfortunately, the US Senate inquiry into Goldman Sach's alleged malfeasance is unlikely to question why the company in 2008 decided to acquire ten intensive poultry farms in China's Hunan and Fujian provinces for $300 million.
- Huffington Post
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04 May 2010
South Korea's Hyundai Corporation is trying to purchase 10,000 ha of farmland in Brazil to grow soybeans for the Korean market
Vita Grain Group, which is backed by US $60 million of funding, owns more than 20 different strains of hybrid rice seeds. Vita Grain is looking for funding to expand its seed production beyond Africa to Asia, the US and South America. The company is also setting up a rice mill in Mauritius and is in talks with partners in Botswana, Madagascar and Mozambique to develop rice production units.
- Business Times
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06 October 2009
A delegation of 26 Egyptian agriculture companies led by Minister of Agriculture Amin Abaza, is now inspecting land proposed by the Ethiopian government for Egyptian investment projects.
- NewBusinessEthiopia.com
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30 December 2009
"The Chinese want a secure food supply, and they're coming into New Zealand to do that, by the look of it," a local farm union official says
Director General of UNIDO: says land acquisition through foreign investors must be carefully considered and strictly scrutinized.
- African Executive
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02 April 2010
Nationwide advertisements have been placed in newspapers today, calling for an end to foreign ownership of New Zealand farmland.
Anuak indigenous people from Ethiopia’s Gambella region submitted a complaint today to the World Bank Inspection Panel implicating the Bank in grave human rights abuses perpetrated by the Ethiopian Government.
In this excerpt from her book, ‘Will Africa Feed China?’, Deborah Brautigam discusses China-Cameroon agricultural development and investment.
- All China Review
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02 September 2015
Pension fund giant TIAA is investing its clients’ funds in farmland and agribusinesses tied to environmental and human rights abuses in Latin America.
With fires on their Cerrado properties, Harvard’s and TIAA’s deforestation exposure appears to be growing.
Recueil de témoignages des victimes du projet Senhuile-Senéthanol dans les villages de Ndiaël, au Sénégal.
- ENDA Pronat
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30 April 2013
A Chinese company developing farm land in the Ord River area has warned it will not proceed with the project under a raft of conditions set out by Australia's environmental watchdog.
- West Australian
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22 April 2015
Jusqu’à maintenant, les efforts déployés pour réglementer les accaparements de terres étaient le fait des institutions internationales. Maintenant, le secteur privé s’engage à définir ses propres règles du jeu.
Pakistan’s ambassador to the Kingdom has called on Saudis to invest in his country’s agricultural sector.
Jordan's stalled Sudan agricultural investment project is no longer feasible, as no one will pay the infrastructure costs to transport water.
- Jordan Times
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21 September 2010
TIAA is among the largest institutional investors in agriculture, with investments in more than 400 farms in North America, South America, Australia, and Eastern Europe as part of its General Account.
- TIAA-CREF
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04 October 2010
There is "a wall of money" looking for a home in agricultural investments worldwide, say managers for BlackRock's London-based World Agriculture Fund.
- The Australian
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27 April 2013
Gulf nations now are quietly scouring the globe for rich farmland to rent or buy outright.
- Associated Press
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16 November 2008
Sources close to Al-Amoudi said that the king has shown an interest in seeing other Saudi companies involved in rice farming after seeing the samples presented by Al-Amoudi
- Addis Fortune
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24 November 2009
More radical steps are being taken to increase production, both by the government, which recently approved two new strains of genetically modified rice, and by agricultural entrepreneurs, who are buying and cultivating land in neighbouring countries.
- Guardian
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23 February 2010