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O cultivo de soja já consumiu 80% de todo o cerrado brasileiro. Imagem: Open Democracy no Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) // La culture du soja utilise maintenant 80 % du cerrado brésilien. Photo : Leonardo Freitas via openDemocracy sur Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Singapore-based Wilmar is owned by the Kuok Group (Singapore/Malaysia) and Arch Daniel Midlands (USA).
A soybean harvest in northern Brazil. Hedge funds and other investors are buying up farmland around the world. (Photo: AP)
Alan Knuckman is a commodities expert at the Chicago Board of Trade. "I don't believe in politics," he says. "I believe in the market, and the market is always right." (Photo: Steve Liss/Der Spiegel)
"Ethiopia is an agricultural paradise with a vast amount of land, favourable climate and low labour costs," says Ramakrishna Karuturi, who's company has acquired over 300,000 ha of land in Ethiopia on a long-term lease.
David Hallam reported that "the World Bank has plenty of resources, but is maintaining a low profile for 'political' reasons."
Flags of Liberia and Malaysia at the Sime Darby palm oil plantation in Bomi, Liberia (Photo: Nick Fraser).
Workers unload palm oil fruit from a truck into a processing plant in the north Sumatra province of Serdang Begadai May 23, 2011. (YT Haryono/Reuters)
Mr Clarke has offered local advice to a Chinese delegation that’s looking to purchase WA farm-land in and around Lake King, Ongerup and Newdegate during recent visits
Cabinet has approved the long-awaited green-paper on land reform, Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti revealed today.
