Gulf embraces Latin American flavours as trade triples
- The National
- 02 October 2012
Investors from the Arabian Peninsula are keen to get on the ground floor of the continent's real estate, agriculture, and energy markets
Investors from the Arabian Peninsula are keen to get on the ground floor of the continent's real estate, agriculture, and energy markets
Foreigners are buying up prime agricultural land, but proposed legislation could curtail the booming trade.
Saudi Arabia has invested around 40 billion riyals in agricultural and livestock projects in the Ukraine, Brazil, Argentina, Canada and Sudan, says chairman of the agricultural investment committee at the Saudi Council of Chambers.
Since Jane Mendillo took over the endowment in July 2008, Harvard’s holdings of forests, farms and other natural resources in Brazil as well as in New Zealand and Romania have grown to about 10 percent of the portfolio -- more than $3 billion -- and she wants to add more.
Um Fundo para a Iniciativa de Desenvolvimento Pro-Savana constituído por um montante inicial de 750 mil dólares americanos, será estabelecido amanhã em Nampula, Moçambique.
China’s growing agribusinesses and demand for soybeans and meat is bringing intensive farming and the risk of further deforestation in Brazil and beyond. Tom Levitt reports.
Architectes et principales bénéficiaires de la libéralisation des échanges agricoles, les firmes de l’agrobusiness ne cessent de renforcer leur emprise sur le système agroalimentaire mondial.
Fundos soberanos constituídos por Estados estrangeiros também não poderão comprar terras.
In 2012, Terra Project started a long term documentation investigating the drivers, the trends, the mechanisms and the impacts of land acquisitions across the world.
Agriculture investment consultants are closely watching the impact that the prolonged drought is likely to have on global corn and soybean carry outs, and the incentive it is creating for increased double cropping in countries such as Brazil.
The companies, which produce mainly soya, sugarcane, corn and cotton, were informed about the opportunities for investment in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT).
Essa área está distribuída por 3.692 cidades e ocupa cerca de 0,53% do território nacional, o que equivale ao estado do Rio Grande do Norte.
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