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Chinese developer wins approval to buy 16 New Zealand farms
Shanghai Pengxin Group Co., a Chinese property developer seeking to export dairy products to Asia, won approval to buy 16 New Zealand dairy farms amid local objections to rising foreign ownership of assets.

Proyecto saudí: "Más concentración y extranjerización de la tierra pública"
El Centro de Estudios "Nelson Mandela" de Resistencia, en un crítico documento, sostiene que el proyecto de entendimiento de Chaco con la empresa saudí Al-Khora yef, constituye "una auténtica situación de emergencia por las locuras de un gobierno que está de paso y que acosa el ambiente".

Colombia: Preparan proyecto que limita acceso extranjero a tierras
En el Congreso se prepara un proyecto de acto legislativo que pretende endurecer los requisitos para que inversionistas extranjeros puedan acceder a tierra colombiana.

High connections: David Miliband joins Pakistani private equity firm
Indus Basin Holdings, a private equity firm incorporated in Mauritius that invests in rice production and dairy farms in Pakistan, has managed to get Britain’s former foreign secretary David Miliband on board as a senior adviser.

Sierra Leone : un investissement chinois de 1,3 milliards $ dans l’agriculture
Shanghai Construction Investment et sa filiale Haman Caoutchouc investiront à partir du second semestre 2012 un montant de 1,3 milliards $ dans la culture du riz et du caoutchouc en Sierra Leone sur une superficie de 30 000 hectares situé dans le nord du pays (région Tonkolili)

Sierra Leone : Agric Ministry receives $1.2bn investment for rice and rubber productions
One of China’s biggest agriculture investment companies, the Hainan Co Ltd for International Economic Corporation, have announced that they have approved the sum of US$ 1,231,986,200 for the production of rubber and rice on 40,000 ha of land in Sierra Leone

Human Rights Watch flags Indian agri-company Karuturi’s Ethiopia operations
“There is no villagization programme,” Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi, founder of Karuturi Global, told Mint via telephone. “This is a completely jaundiced western vision. They assume anything in Africa has to be done by the whites and the Chinese and Indians should have businesses only in their own countries.”

At least 70,000 forced off their land in Ethiopia, rights group reports
Ethiopia has forced at least 70,000 people off their land so it can lease fertile fields to foreign investors, a move that has left some locals starving in barren, remote villages.

Tajikistan to lease farmland to Chinese
Tajikistan says it will allow Chinese farmers to rent 200ha of southern Tajik farmland.

'They made us leave our farms'
BBC radio investigates report by Human Rights Watch that claims Britain is indirectly funding a brutally enforced resettlement programme in Ethiopia.

27 Jan 2012Oakland Institute

Gambella snapshot video: US aid to Ethiopia supports forced relocations for land grabs

Ethiopia is forcibly relocating 70,000 people from Gambella to make fertile land available for foreign investment in agriculture--aggravating current hunger while laying the groundwork for future famine in Ethiopia

27 Jan 2012Diario del Huila

¿Un país en venta?

Una noticia de la semana pasada daba cuenta de la inversión creciente de grandes multinacionales en compra de tierras en Colombia. Específicamente señalaba la compra de 90.000 hectáreas por la empresa norteamericana Cargill, la mayor comercializadora del mundo de materias primas agrícolas.

27 Jan 2012AP

Anxiety in New Zealand as Chinese buy dairy farms

Chinese investors are buying New Zealand farmland for the first time as economic ties with the Asian powerhouse grow ever deeper, sparking considerable anxiety in a country where livelihoods are heavily reliant on agriculture.

27 Jan 2012	Gambella snapshot video: US aid to Ethiopia supports forced relocations for land grabs	Oakland Institute
27 Jan 2012	¿Un país en venta?	Diario del Huila
27 Jan 2012	Peace, bread and land: Agricultural investments in Ethiopia and the Sudans	Chatham House
27 Jan 2012	Anxiety in New Zealand as Chinese buy dairy farms	AP
27 Jan 2012	Chinese developer wins approval to buy 16 New Zealand farms	Bloomberg
26 Jan 2012	El Acaparamiento de tierras en la Hoja de Reflexión de Justicia y Solidaridad	CONFER
26 Jan 2012	Land the perfect investment for foreigners	Stock & Land
25 Jan 2012	“Los mercados financieros contaminaron el comercio de materias primas”	Pagina12
24 Jan 2012	AGCO holds Africa Ag Summit in Berlin	GlobalAtlanta
24 Jan 2012	So much to lose than gain in foreign land investments	The Guardian
24 Jan 2012	Saudi Star among firms behind thousands of forced relocations in Ethiopia	Green Prophet
24 Jan 2012	Agri-business junior "on the cusp of profitability"	Stockhouse
24 Jan 2012	Proyecto saudí: "Más concentración y extranjerización de la tierra pública"	Chaco Dia por Dia
24 Jan 2012	SIPH : Accord majeur au Libéria pour une extension des terres à 35 000 ha	SIPH
23 Jan 2012	Sénégal : « Y en a marre » inaugure la foire aux problèmes	Afrik.com
23 Jan 2012	Olam to spend $250 million on Gabon palm-oil project	Bloomberg
23 Jan 2012	New Hope and Marubeni join for overseas expansion	All About Feed
23 Jan 2012	Bonduelle acquires CECAB's Russian ops	Just Food
22 Jan 2012	Colombia: Preparan proyecto que limita acceso extranjero a tierras	El Tiempo
21 Jan 2012	High connections: David Miliband joins Pakistani private equity firm	Express Tribune

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