Switzerland

The smart money is betting on the Pakistani farm
- Express Tribune
- 24 October 2011
Venture capitalists, merchant bankers and large conglomerates are all piling in.
World's rich nurture returns from forests and farms
- Reuters
- 04 October 2011
A small but growing number of the world's wealthy are shoring up their portfolios with investments in forestry and farmland in an effort to take the sting from losses in more traditional assets as the financial crisis trundles on.
Shut the gate: why cash-strapped landowners are selling the farm
- SMH
- 01 August 2011
Australians do realise the value of what is being sold, a land agent and rural property specialist said, "but their hands are tied because they can't raise the money".
Sierra Leones Hungerfalle
- Neues Deutschland
- 19 July 2011
Landraub von Multis für die Ethanol-Produktion verschärft die Ernährungslage
En Sierra Leone, des communautés trahies par une entreprise suisse
- Le Courrier
- 09 July 2011
Des enquêtes d’ONG confirment que le projet de la société Addax Bioenergy dans la région de Makeni ne profite pas aux populations locales.
Sierra Leone Environment Protection Agency investigates Addax environmental activities in Makeni communities
- Standard Times
- 28 June 2011
Full force delegation headed by the EPA Executive Chairperson, Madam Haddijatou Jallow, visited the Addax operational areas and got first hand information from the community people.
Study reveals alarming facts about plantation of Addax Bioenergy in Sierra Leone
- Bread for all
- 15 June 2011
The Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food today published the Independent Study report on the sugarcane project of the Geneva based firm Addax Bioenergy.
Sierra Leone: un projet d'agrocarburant de l'entreprise suisse Addax Bioenergy renferme un grand potentiel… de conflit.
- PPP
- 15 June 2011
Le Réseau Sierra-léonais pour le Droit à l'Alimentation a publié aujourd'hui une étude indépendante sur la location à long terme de vastes surfaces agricoles par Addax Bioenergy.
Swiss Commodities Trader Expands Into Ethanol in Africa
- New York Times
- 15 June 2011
Jean Claude Gandur’s ethanol project in Sierra Leone comes at a sensitive time, with concerns being raised of exploitation of developing countries for resources.
L’achat de terres arables explose dans le Sud
- swissinfo.ch
- 12 June 2011
Genève puis Zurich ont accueilli cette semaine «jetfin AGRO», une rencontre d’investisseurs cherchant à faire de l’argent dans l’agriculture, l’eau, le bois et les ressources naturelles. Une provocation pour quelques 25 ONG et syndicats qui ont manifesté devant le palace genevois abritant la réunion.
Spotlight turned on agro investment boom
- swissinfo.ch
- 09 June 2011
Protestors have been demonstrating in Geneva against the growth in investments in agriculture that they say endangers food security in many developing countries.
El Banco Mundial se propone inyectar dinero a uno de los acaparadores de tierras agrícolas mas grandes de América Latina
- GRAIN
- 07 June 2011
El 10 de junio de 2011, la junta directiva de la Corporación Financiera Internacional (CFI) del Banco Mundial tiene previsto decidir sobre la conveniencia de ofrecer un préstamo esencial para Calyx Agro Ltd.