“The current government puts on the pretty face of a progressive government, but behind the scenes agribusiness is growing more than ever before”. The following is an interview conducted by the MST website with Perla, who came to Brazil for the People’s Summit.
A Comissão de Agricultura da Câmara dos Deputados aprovou relatório que dá às empresas brasileiras com capital estrangeiro liberdade para adquirir grandes extensões de terras. Atualmente, isso é proibido.
Adecoagro, the agricultural company that counts George Soros as its biggest investor, is giving potential buyers the chance to get a hold of farms in Brazil and Argentina at a 36 percent discount to its net assets.
Under a new proposal from the Agricultural Committee of Brazil's Congress, any company established in Brazil, even if controlled by foreigners, would be considered Brazilian and not subject to restrictions on farmland ownership.
Large-scale soy monoculture is expanding rapidly in Latin America. Boosted by dubious investment from multi-national corporations, it has moved well beyond the southern states and into the Amazon area.
Een varios países se establecen límites a la adquisición de tierras por extranjeros. En Argentina, los extranjeros pueden adquirir hasta 15% de la tierra rural.
With demand for food rising with China's growing population and economy, domestic companies are looking to boost investments in resource-rich foreign countries such as Brazil and Indonesia to fill the food supply gap at home.
Presented by FGV at JICA's ProSAVANA Seminar, "Fourth Opinion Sharing Meeting on Agriculture Development of Northern Mozambique: reporting from the triangular joint mission to promote agriculture investment in the Nacala Corridor", June 5, 2012.
Los Grobo plans to expand its cultivation in Brazil to 90,000 hectares in the 2012/13 crop year from 60,000 hectares today.
SLC Agricola, the Brazil farm operator with large ambitions in farmland acquisition, sealed a $239m cash injection from UK fund manager Valiance Asset Management for a business aimed at turning scrub into "high-quality" farms.
BTG Pactual Cesar Campos FGV parceria projetos Roberto Rodrigues Tropical Belt
The Singapore-based trading house paid R$255m ($129m) to acquire the Usina Açucareira Passos (UAP) mill, in which it pledged to invest a further $111.5m in the next five years to boost both cane growing and producing capacity.
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