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South African farmers set up in Congo
- IPS
- 26 Mar 2011
The Republic of Congo has handed over 80,000 ha of arable land to a company owned and operated by 14 South African farmers.
Food security concerns lead to review of land ownership in Australia
- Sydney Morning Herald
- 24 Mar 2011
Parliament is calling on the Productivity Commission to review the recent surge in foreign investment in farming, focusing on its effects on the economy and food security.
Betting the farm – and winning
- Macleans
- 17 Mar 2011
Investors are buying Canadian agricultural land, betting that rising food prices, a ballooning global population and growing worldwide scarcities in farmland will mean a payoff for them.
Harvesting returns: investing in agriculture
- Wall Street Journal
- 14 Mar 2011
David Murrin, CIO at Emergent Asset Management, stresses the difficulties of jumping aboard the African growth story. "It is very hard to take advantage of the tremendous growth in African agriculture and that's why private equity investment is so important, it helps capture some of that growth," he says.
Who's really buying the farm?
- The Age
- 06 Mar 2011
Foreign investment in Australia's food chain is increasing at a rate that is causing concern, and not just for people on the land.
More talks on the land grab
- Ethiomedia
- 04 January 2011
In Ethiopia, resentments over land grab have already started claiming lives. The TPLF regime has already killed 10 protesting ethnic Anuak farmers and has sent thousands more to concentration camps.
Alternative investing: Digging into farmland
- CNBC
- 03 January 2011
Finding suitable farmland investment vehicles is not as easy as one might think.
Land: The new international strategic asset. How Africa is losing big time
- Modern Ghana
- 27 December 2010
The seizing of the poor farmers' land is destroying their only hope of survival on earth.
Meeting the challenges of future food security
- Financial Express
- 20 December 2010
Bangladeshi authorities have started exploring new options to ensure the country's food security such as taking lease of vast areas of fallow agricultural land in the neighbouring Myanmar and in some African states.
GCC urged to help avert food crisis
- The National
- 05 December 2010
Gulf nations need to step up investments in African and South East Asian farmland if the region is to play its part in averting a global food crisis, agriculture experts say.
What cost foreign interest?
- Stock & Land
- 24 November 2010
Government has taken action to resolve lingering speculation and strengthen transparency surrounding the degree of foreign ownership in Australian agriculture.
Australia to examine foreign takeovers
- WSJ
- 23 November 2010
Australia's center-left Labor government said Tuesday it will examine foreign ownership of the country's rural land and agricultural food production in response to a spate of takeovers that have triggered anxiety about job losses and broader concerns about food security.
New rush of foreign investors, mainly Argentines, to purchase land in Uruguay
- MercoPress
- 01 November 2010
Recent business delegations from Iran and Qatar expressed strong interest in buying farmland in Uruguay to develop their own production projects.
Mauritius could hand over 2 islands to India
- Financial Express
- 14 October 2010
India and Mauritius have resumed discussions over a proposal to hand over the twin islands of Agalega to India for tourism development and possibly agriculture.
Africa shouldn't rush into land deals: FAO
- Reuters
- 11 October 2010
African governments should avoid rushing into big land lease deals with foreign investors or risk deepening poverty and ramping up social tensions, an official at the UN's Food and Agriculture Office said
Foreign investment in Aussie farms is nothing unusual
- Australian Farm Journal
- 04 October 2010
The anxiety expressed in some farming quarters and the daily media about Australian farms becoming dominated by foreign corporations and governments fails to recognise that the coming and going of overseas investors has always been part of rural property transactions.
Investors seeing farmland as safer bet than stocks
- LA Times
- 19 September 2010
Wary of fluctuations on Wall Street, more wealthy Americans, private funds and foreigners are putting money into parcels of cornfields, fruit orchards and other US agricultural products.
Egypt offers 50,000 acres for farm projects
- Reuters
- 11 September 2010
Egypt will soon offer to lease, for 49 years, 50,000 feddans [21,000 ha] for agri-business projects in North Sinai, the irrigation minister said -- but only to domestic investors.
World Bank land alert
- Phnom Penh Post
- 09 September 2010
In Cambodia, an assessment of the impact of foreign farmland acquisitions has been hampered by a lack of data, including the total number of concessions awarded and an accurate set of GPS coordinates for each concession, the World Bank says.
Brazil Ain't for Sale… Chapter 1 of the Coming Food Crisis
- Asia Pacific Dispatch
- 31 August 2010
Brazil shocked foreign investors when President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he was concerned about Brazilian land falling into foreign hands.
This time for Africa: Africa calling Indian farmers
- PTI
- 11 August 2010
ASSOCHAM, India's apex industry body, has sent a proposal to the external affairs ministry offering to act as facilitator to help Indian farmers get farmland in Africa.
Africa-ME 'agricultural tie-up ideal'
- Trade Arabia
- 22 July 2010
Africa's untapped agriculture potential make it an ideal partner for resource-constrained Middle Eastern countries that seek to improve their food security, a new report from Standard Chartered Bank said.
Text of the G8 Summit communique
- Canadian Press
- 26 June 2010
"We support continued efforts to develop principles for investment in the agricultural sector undertaken by the World Bank, regional development banks, FAO, UNCTAD, and IFAD," say G8 heads of state.
African land grabbing: Whose interests are served
- Brookings Institution
- 25 June 2010
Evidence suggests a marked disparity in the benefits received by those involved in and affected by these transnational land acquisitions, particularly for those originally dwelling on the land.
Indonesia census turns up Papua tribe living in trees
- Reuters
- 24 June 2010
A tribe of hunter gatherers living in trees in the forests of Papua, near the planned Merauke food estate where Wilmar and other firms plan to get farmland, has been discovered officially for the first time.
SilverStreet Fund focuses on agriculture in Africa
- Institutional Investor
- 04 June 2010
SilverStreet is scouting for commercial farms in five countries — Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
SilverStreet Fund focuses on agriculture in Africa
- Institutional Investor
- 28 May 2010
Vaughan-Smith and his team of seven professionals are scouting for commercial farms in five countries — Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia — where conditions are deemed to be the most favorable.
Namibia: Will farm project mean the river runs dry?
- IPS
- 18 May 2010
"Local businessmen make deals with foreign investors and convince tribal authorities in the area to give them land, but the water from the river is not just for people to take," says Water Affairs Under Secretary A. Nehemia who had not been informed about the farm.
Foreign-owned farms control over 6% of Czech farmland
- CTK
- 17 May 2010
Farms of foreign owners control more than 6 percent of the total Czech farmland area of 3.6 million hectares, weekly Euro says in its latest issue to be published on Monday, referring to data of the Czech Statistical Office
Food security in Arab countries still faces big challenge
- Xinhua
- 11 May 2010
Saudi Arabian Agriculture Minister Fahd Bin Abdul-rahman Bin Sulaiman Balghunaim said at the summit that Saudi Arabia was planning to invest in Algeria's agriculture, like Egypt and Sudan.