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(L-R) Bulgarian Agriculture Minister Naydenov, China's Deputy Agri Minister Gao, Bulgarian PM Borisov, Chinese Ambassador Gao in Sofia in November 2011 (Source: What's on in Tianjin)
Workers on a sugar plantation in Brazil, where US-based Bunge is building a large land portfolio for sugar and biofuels production. (Photo Lalo de Almeida for the New York Times)
La résistance contre les expropriations en masse des personnes qui vivent simplement de la terre se manifeste partout. (Photo : La Via Campesina)
Harvesting maize on Karuturi's farm in Gambella, October 2012. Karuturi is an Indian multinational corporation that has recently acquired more than 311,000 ha of farmland in Ethiopia. (Photo: Karuturi)
Christian business people, like Aslan Management, investing in developing countries seek a ‘triple bottom line’ (IMage: Krieg Barrie)
Ambrosio Manjate, 55, a smallholder farmer from Palmeira in Southern Mozambique. Farmers’ unions believe that soon land will become very scarce for locals. Credit: Johannes Myburgh/IPS
Maru had just met with a group of illiterate farmers who had put their thumbprints on a contract — agreeing to lease their land to a company — without being able to read what it said.
Franzén said when AP2 initially invested in agricultural land and timber, the proposal was to include the assets in a 10% exposure to real estate – a threshold the fund was now approaching.
