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Agriculture investment: Solid ground for unstable times
- CNBC
- 08 November 2011
As the global financial downturn pushes investors into finding alternative business ventures, land investment has become an attractive proposition.
Prince Charles on land grabbing
- Prince of Wales
- 05 November 2011
"I wonder if greater returns could come for Africa if attention were paid to backing the continent’s millions of smallholders? And yet, as I speak, many are being driven off their land and swelling the ranks of the urban dispossessed."
Foreigners dig in to New South Wales farmland
- The Land
- 19 October 2011
More than 613,000 hectares of Australia's NSW's agricultural land is owned by UK-based investors, compared with 227,300 ha owned by Korean interests and 55,560 ha by US investors.
British, French firms linked to African land grabs
- PANA
- 06 October 2011
The French Development Agency and the UK-based Emergent Asset Management have been named as the leading investors in massive land deals involving African leaders
World Agriculture Investment Overview: Expert Insights
- FC Business Intelligence
- 05 October 2011
Synthesis report from the World Agriculture Investment Conference, London, UK, 4-5 October.
New CDC investment to support African agribusiness
- CDC
- 03 October 2011
CDC, the UK’s development finance institution, today announced a US$20m investment in farming businesses in Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and Uganda
Rogers joins board of farmland investment group
- Investment Week
- 03 October 2011
Commodities investor Jim Rogers has been appointed to the board of the farmland investment firm Genagro Ltd
Sun Biofuels jatropha project in Kisarawe suspended
- Tanzania Daily News
- 03 October 2011
The EU lured many multinational energy companies such as SBF to invest in renewable energies in developing countries such Tanzania where almost all projects are on the verge of collapse or shut down.
From public good to private profit: The shifting discourse on land grabbing
- Global Policy Forum
- 18 September 2011
Land investments displace rural populations, often without any notice, and diminish their access to land, jobs, and food.
Farmland investment booming in Africa
- AltAssets
- 08 September 2011
"As investors we always want to be on the correct side of global macro trends, and whatever China needs or is buying lots of, we want to own as investments."
Famine : polémique autour des politiques agricoles
- Jeune Afrique
- 26 August 2011
La polémique portant sur l’aide chinoise à l’Ethiopie tient avant tout de la macro-économie – les investissements étrangers sont-ils facteurs de développement ? – et d’une question de conscience – peut-on importer des produits alimentaires d’un pays en proie à la famine ?
Mozambique: la question de la vente des terres cultivables pose problème
- RFI
- 23 August 2011
La semaine dernière, Folha De San Paulo affirmait que le gouvernement mozambicain avait concédé 6 millions d'hectares à des investisseurs du Brésil. Depuis, Maputo a démenti l'information. Mais la question agite le Mozambique.