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- Ethiopia: Kala Negara Miskin Suplai Makanan Untuk Negara Kaya
09 Mar 2010 | No Comments - El nuevo acaparamiento de tierras en América Latina
09 Mar 2010 | No Comments - Food estate feared to marginalize Papuans
09 Mar 2010 | No Comments - Rausing company pays EUR 8.2mn for arable land in Romania
08 Mar 2010 | No Comments - Qatar agribusiness buys first Australian holding
08 Mar 2010 | No Comments - The Foreign Land Grab Part 1: Food insecurity
08 Mar 2010 | No Comments - UK buyout firm launches agriculture fund
08 Mar 2010 | No Comments - Kuwait hunts for agro-food investments in Turkey
08 Mar 2010 | No Comments - How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab
07 Mar 2010 | No Comments - Land grabbing in Latin America
05 Mar 2010 | 2 Comments
- Land grabbing in Latin America
05 Mar 2010 | 2 Comments - Résistance à Gambela contre l’accaparement des terres : Entretien avec Nyikaw Ochalla
02 Mar 2010 | No Comments - Struggles against land grabs in Gambella: Interview with Nyikaw Ochalla
02 Mar 2010 | No Comments - Touche pas à mes terres ! Spéciale de France Inter
01 Mar 2010 | No Comments - Les terres agricoles des pays émergents, “la nouvelle frontière”
01 Mar 2010 | No Comments - Land leasing in Ethiopia: a shameless land grab by the rich or an opportunity for the poor?
25 Feb 2010 | No Comments - OSA: Open letter to the UN Sec-Gen on land grab and evictions in Oromia
25 Feb 2010 | No Comments - EALA adopts common strategy for food security in the region
24 Feb 2010 | No Comments - Indonesia aims to be world’s breadbasket
22 Feb 2010 | No Comments - Emergent Asset Management claims to run the biggest agricultural fund in Africa, but it is not clear how much progress has been made on the ground
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Soros-backed venture weighs IPO to fund Brazil mill
Billionaire George Soros’s Adecoagro venture, which invests in agriculture and renewable energy in Latin America, is considering an initial public offering to help fund projects in Brazil that include a $700 million sugar mill. -
Some large investors views on farmland
Soros recently became the largest shareholder in Adecoagro one of the leading agribusiness companies in South America whose main activities are the production of grains, rice, oilseed, dairy products, sugar, ethanol, coffee, cotton and cattle meat. -
The food crisis continues – in the form of a global scramble for lucrative farmlands
It's a tsunami of land deals and, as all of the experts who have studied the phenomenon have agreed, no nation is truly prepared for its implications. -
Betting the farm
As world population expands, the demand for arable land should soar. At least that's what George Soros, Lord Rothschild, and other investors believe.