• Soros-backed Adecoagro takes land gains to $132m
    • Agrimoney
    • 04 January 2013

    Adecoagro realised more of the substantial gains within its 283,000-hectare landbank by selling one of its Argentine farms in a deal valuing it at 11 times the purchase price a decade ago.

  • Guidelines for land allocation to investors
    • Mpakasi
    • 03 January 2013

    In 2012, PM Mizengo Pinda announced that from January 2013, Tanzania will start restricting the size of land that single large-scale foreign and local investors can “lease” for agricultural use. And Tanzania Investment Centre announced that guidelines that will make the Tanzania Land Bank functional will be ready early 2013.

  • Kuwait, Saudi eye Sudan farmland
    • Kuwait Times
    • 03 January 2013

    Sudan launched a major dam project on Tuesday to boost power supply and agricultural irrigation, a plan officials hope will foster farmland exports and attract more Gulf investment to the African country as it battles an economic crisis.

  • Food, fuel and the global land grab
    • The Futurist
    • 03 January 2013

    As land and water become scarce, as the earth’s temperature rises, and as world food security deteriorates, a dangerous geopolitics of food scarcity is emerging, writes Lester Brown

  • Tanzanie : Contenir "la course à l’accaparement des terres"
    • IPS
    • 03 January 2013

    A partir de janvier 2013, la Tanzanie débutera la restriction de la taille des terres qui peuvent être "cédées" uniquement aux grands investisseurs étrangers et locaux à des fins agricoles.

  • Iran wants to lease Armenian pasture land
    • Asbarez.com
    • 02 January 2013

    Armenian and Iranian authorities are negotiating on the possible lease by Iranian sheep and cattle breeders of mountain pastures in southeastern Armenia, it was officially confirmed on Friday.

  • Land grabs: Resisting the land gluttons
    • The Land
    • 02 January 2013

    Winter 2012-2013 issue of The Land magazine

  • Wealthy Gulf investors warm to Africa
    • Reuters
    • 02 January 2013

    Wealthy Gulf Arab companies are boosting their investment in Africa's vast lands and untapped resources, marking a shift for investors who have traditionally directed their money towards assets in the United States and Europe.

  • Global land and water grabbing
    • PNAS
    • 02 January 2013

    It is found that about 0.31 × 1012 m3⋅y−1 of green water (i.e., rainwater) and up to 0.14 × 1012 m3⋅y−1 of blue water (i.e., irrigation water) are appropriated globally for crop and livestock production in 47 × 106 ha of grabbed land worldwide (i.e., in 90% of the reported global grabbed land).

  • From Brooklyn to Bolivian rice venture, prison and Sean Penn’s help
    • New York Times
    • 01 January 2013

    Jacob Ostreicher was a flooring contractor and father of five from Borough Park, Brooklyn, who, like more than a few entrepreneurs battered by the recession, decided to seek his fortune abroad. In his case, he went into rice farming in Bolivia.

  • Whose land is it anyway?
    • FSRN
    • 01 January 2013

    Land across great swathes of the developing world has become a prime target for foreign investors. Free Speech Radio News explores the issue by looking at what’s happening in Kenya.

  • FICCI President leads industry mission to Ethiopia, addresses COMESA Business Forum
    • FICCI Business Digest
    • 31 December 2012

    The delegation consisted of senior business leaders from Indian companies such as Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi of Karuturi Global Ltd

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