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"Although rice farming and trading are limited to Thais under the Foreign Business Act, many foreigners can easily rent or own land for raising rice and conducting a rice-trading business in the Kingdom," a rice trader said yesterday.
Villagers in Ruasse used this land to grow corn, sugar cane and cassava. A month or two ago, tractors from the Quifel Natural Resources farm plowed it up. The villagers say that they never received any payment for the crops that they lost. (Dan Charles, NPR)
The forest-farm frontier in the Amazon is rapidly moving towards the forest (Pic courtesy Dr. Tim Boekhout van Solinge)
The forest-farm frontier in the Amazon is rapidly moving towards the forest (Pic courtesy Dr. Tim Boekhout van Solinge)
Le Pr Sasson estime qu'en Afrique, y compris en Afrique du Nord, peut-être 25% des contrats d'acquisition foncière par des investisseurs étrangers sont réguliers.
Pierre Bordenave a participé à la création et au développement de fermes en Ukraine (50 000 ha) au sein du Groupe Agrogeneration.
"A SIPP holder can invest into shares, bonds, funds, commercial property, farmland or even gold amongst other products. There are some fantastic investment vehicles out there that can deliver outstanding returns if you only know where to look."
With overseas investors now burnt by dissolving equities and derivatives markets, interest in "real" ag assets is serious, notably from London ("they have a history of understanding overseas agricultural investment in the UK"), Shanghai, Hamburg and Toronto.
"I never heard of even a single displacement," says Dr Fahd bin Abdulrahman Balghunaim, Saudi Arabia's minister for agriculture
