Environmentalists are up in arms over the latest design for the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate in Papua, which they say will see more than 1.1 million hectares of forests converted into agricultural estates.
- Jakarta Globe
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09 May 2010
Cargill and Bunge among firms setting up funds to buy farms in Asia and South America.
Pakistan’s ambassador to the Kingdom has called on Saudis to invest in his country’s agricultural sector.
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
MCC is playing a key role in commodifying Africa’s farmlands
La lutte contre l’accaparement de terres a au Mexique une longue histoire. Le rejet du “Procede” dans les communautés indigènes, l’occupation de grandes propriétés au Chiapas à la suite du soulèvement zapatiste, la résistance des paysans d’Atenco et tant d’autres conflits montrent que l’initiative de la Banque Mondiale dans notre pays ne passera pas.
FIDP has launched a Cambodia and Laos fund, “an extended China play” that will focus largely on agriculture, seeking to benefit from China’s desire for food security.
- Financial Times
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18 April 2010
Les gouvernements africains ont multiplié les contrats de location de terres agricoles avec des sociétés étrangères au cours de ces cinq dernières années. Le phénomène n'est pas nouveau mais les motivations, les acquéreurs et le rythme d'acquisition, oui.
Selon le Parti pour l’indépendance et le travail, la nouvelle loi sénégalaise sur la privatisation des terres est une vaste opération de bradage des terres utiles du Sénégal au profit des agrobusiness, entamée avec la bénédiction des institutions de Bretton Woods.
- Le Quotidien
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07 April 2010
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
In a move to attract foreign investment, Cambodia has awarded big concessions to companies, mainly from China, Vietnam and South Korea, to run mines, power plants and farms, leading to a rise in forced evictions by state officials profiting on the sale and lease of farmland for use by foreign and local companies.
Minister says the contract did not give a deadline for the investor to complete his project, which means the government is powerless to withdraw the land from Saudi Prince Talal.
- Almasryalyoum
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18 Mar 2010
The Congo ventures are not core businesses to be based in the Congo but instead, extensions of businesses located in South Africa
- Mail & Guardian
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12 Mar 2010
Plusieurs pays avec une forte croissance démographique cherchent à acquérir des terres agricoles hors de leurs frontières, avec en toile de fond la crise alimentaire. Cette quête conduit notamment des entreprises chinoises à s'intéresser à des terres arables au Québec.
We call upon Ethiopians to take note of the consequences of long-term leases of farmlands to foreign governments and companies including its potential to undermine the future existence of the Ethiopian people.
- Anywaa Survival Organisation
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11 Mar 2010
Right now communities in Latin America, as around the world, are suffering a new kind of invasion of their territories
"If the government wants to eliminate famine, it should give farmers access to more land, and not give it away for corporations"
- Jakarta Globe
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04 Mar 2010
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
There is something amazingly patronising in the way Payne claims that Emergent has ‘adopted’ a Mozambican village of 3,000 people and hired its citizens to clear 2,000 acres of land to farm it with her firm.
- Agriprods
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18 February 2010
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
Standard Chartered Bank's Africa private equity arm and a unit of Reliance Capital are in talks to invest in Dubai-based Karuturi Overseas.
- VC Circle
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09 February 2010
The Indonesian government is wise to learn from the South Korea Daewoo-Madagascar deal, which demonstrated the enormous economic, social and political risks associated with foreign ownership of land and water rights.
- CSR Asia
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03 February 2010
A discussion note prepared by FAO, IFAD, UNCTAD and the World Bank Group to contribute to an ongoing global dialogue.
- World Bank
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25 January 2010
A foreign company intends to clear 10 000 hectares of land in the Bwabwata National Park in northern Namibia in order to set up a large-scale irrigation scheme for crop farming
- The Namibian
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22 January 2010
The media and environmentalists must intensify their focus on the environmental costs of international farmland transactions.
- World Politics Review
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20 January 2010
Uganda has agreed to allow Egypt to cultivate wheat on Ugandan soil.
- Daily News Egypt
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12 January 2010
Lawrence Asset Management's Ravi Sood suggests investing in food production in low-cost areas that are water-rich – Brazil, tropical Africa, Malaysia and Indonesia.
- Globe and Mail
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11 January 2010
He confirmed that the Ministry received very wide offers of investment by Arab and foreign investors.
- IRAQdirectory.com
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09 January 2010
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
Citadel Capital will deploy significant capital across East Africa in 2010 in sectors spanning from agriculture to consumer foods.
- Business Daily
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29 December 2009