Brazil

Agriculture Outsourcing: South America/Latin America farmland investing
- YouTube
- 21 July 2009
Corporate pitch from Uruguay-based private equity firm Allied Venture for Indian investors to go into outsourced agriculture in Latin America
Agriculture Outsourcing: South America/Latin America farmland investing
- YouTube
- 21 July 2009
Allied Venture promo video for Indian investors
Aumenta el interés extranjero en la compra de tierras agrícolas brasileñas
- Radioagencia NP
- 16 July 2009
Los inversionistas de Arabia Saudita y de China están cada vez más interesados en adquirir tierras agrícolas en Brasil.
Offshore farms for gulf food self-sufficiency hampered by hungry masses
- The National
- 15 July 2009
Rothschild has recently formed a co-operation agreement with Rabobank, a leading global food and agricultural bank. The agreement covers co-operation for mergers and acquisitions and the equity capital market across a number of sectors including farm inputs and equipment, farm-based commodities, primary food processing, food processing and beverages.
Aso takes aim at wealthy states' 'land grabs' in developing world
- Japan Times
- 08 July 2009
Prime Minister Taro Aso says he will call on world to develop principles promoting responsible foreign investment in agriculture in the face of "land grabs" of large-scale farmland in poor nations to ensure food supplies for wealthy nations.
Multinacionales: Compras masivas de tierras fértiles
- Solidaridad
- 07 July 2009
Actualmente los grandes compradores son el gobierno de Corea del Sur -que posee en el extranjero más tierras fértiles de las que tiene en su propio país-, seguido de China, Arabia Saudí, Emiratos Árabes Unidos y Japón.
The world must learn to live and farm sustainably
- Financial Times
- 05 July 2009
We need non-binding principles, not regulation, to make land grabbing win-win, says Japan's Prime Minister before the G8 Summit
Food security fears drive fund farm investments
- Reuters
- 02 July 2009
The emergence of the farmland asset class is not without pitfalls with the provision of food always highly political and a tentative global economic recovery potentially threatened by the H1N1 flu pandemic, fund managers said.
Lula approves bill allowing squatters rights in Amazon
- Guardian
- 28 June 2009
Environmentalists — who have dubbed it the “land-grabbers bill” — fear the new rules will offer a carte blanche for those wanting to make money by destroying the Amazon.
The poor struggle for bargaining power in land disputes - world leaders aren't turning blind eye
- San Francisco Examiner
- 27 June 2009
When people are using lands under customary tenure arrangements, there is an inequality in bargaining power where no formal titles to the land exist if a foreign investor is interested in purchasing the land.
Rabobank exec sees recovery, change for farm sector
- Reuters
- 24 June 2009
Despite criticism for Chinese efforts to acquire large-scale farmland in Africa, China is seen continuing to aggressively pursue acquisitions in other countries. says Michael Whitehead, executive director of the food and agribusiness research and advisory unit at Rabobank International.
Farmland investing: the quiet land grab is just beginning
- The Market Oracle
- 12 June 2009
An investor analysis of the case for buying up farmland