La compagnie chinoise Chongqing Grain Group vient d’annoncer son intention d’acheter 100 000 hectares de terres arables dans l’Etat de Bahia, dans le nord-est du Brésil, afin d’y cultiver du soja pour le marché chinois.
A empresa estatal chinesa Chongqing Grain Group pretende investir US$ 300 milhões (R$ 525 milhões) na compra de 100 mil hectares de terra no oeste da Bahia, com o objetivo de produzir soja para o mercado brasileiro e chinês.
“It’s not common in Brazil to find farmers presenting accounts to international investors. What you can see here is the new model for agribusiness in Brazil,” says André Pessôa, co-ordinator of the Rally da Safra.
India's food crisis can be lessened by growing some of the relevant crops like wheat, rice, pulses and oilseeds in Argentina.
Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management has started up the Macquarie Crop Fund to "acquire or lease grain and oilseed properties located in geographically diverse regions of Australia and Brazil".
JICA is building a new development model to encourage increased agricultural production in Africa, both to help prevent another global food crisis and to deter a land grab by foreign enterprises across the continent, according to Senior Vice President Kenzo Oshima.
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Um grupo pouco conhecido de produtores rurais e investidores financeiros criou uma empresa com foco na aquisição de propriedades rurais no Cerrado brasileiro.
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En Amérique latine, comme partout ailleurs dans le monde, les communautés subissent actuellement une nouvelle forme d’invasion de leur territoire.
El Tejar SA, Argentina’s largest agricultural producer, is weighing an initial public offering in New York to tap rising investor demand for farming assets.
Inversionistas extranjeros han acaparado en pocos años millones de hectáreas de tierras de cultivo en América Latina para producir cultivos alimentarios o agrocombustibles y exportarlos. Gran parte del dinero proviene de fondos de pensión, bancos, grupos de inversión privada de Europa y Estados Unidos, o de individuos acaudalados como George Soros, y fluye a través de mecanismos de inversión en tierras de cultivo puestos a operar mediante compañías extranjeras y locales.
Right now communities in Latin America, as around the world, are suffering a new kind of invasion of their territories
"At an UNCTAD meeting on investment in agriculture on February 3, China became the central focus of criticism amid a chorus of concerns about the economic, food security, environmental and social impact of large foreign purchases of agricultural lands in developing countries," reports the US mission to Geneva
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Italy supports sustainable agriculture projects in Ghana
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