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How financialisation influences the dynamics in the food supply chain
- SOMO
- 26 September 2014
Discussion paper for the workshop ‘Mapping the State of Play on the Global Food Landscape’ Waterloo, 25-27 September 2014.
Qatar increases its investments in Turkey's agribusiness sector
- Daily Sabah
- 24 September 2014
Officials from Hassad Food arrived in Turkey to make investments aiming to slake the country’s basic agricultural requirements as the small peninsula lacks sufficient arable land
Planet palm oil: peasants pay the price for cheap vegetable oil
- GRAIN
- 24 September 2014
Over the past fifteen years, foreign companies have signed over 60 deals covering nearly 4 million hectares in central and western Africa for the development of oil palm plantations, reports GRAIN.
How Wall Street's robber barons are exploiting America's farmers
- AlterNet
- 24 September 2014
The latest fast-buck fad for high-roller investment trusts, hedge funds and venture capital speculators is "farming."
Video explores land grabs, development in Ethiopia
- Grassroots International
- 24 September 2014
Video by Alfredo Bini explores the phenomenon of land grabs through the eyes of foreign investors, governments and the people on the land.
Video: Large scale land acquisitions and responsible investment in Africa
- ODI
- 24 September 2014
Presentation by Ruth Hall of PLAAS on responsible or irresponsible agricultural investment in Africa at the Future Agricultures London Policy Dialogue.
Food and finance: the financial transformation of agro-food supply chains
- JPS
- 24 September 2014
Land is becoming increasingly more coveted by transnational agribusiness and financial investors.
Ukrainian, Chinese investors launch joint agriculture project
- Xinhua
- 24 September 2014
The DARA Group and Chinese Agricultural Corporation HuanFan Qu agree on a US$58 million 5-year project to develop cereal farms, pig farms and greenhouses in the Ukraine.
Australia: China sour on dairy management
- Financial Review
- 22 September 2014
Despite all the hype around Chinese investment in the Australian dairy sector, one Chinese investor who bought a dairy farm five years ago has lost money and will not buy again.
Private sector spearheads realization of Arab food security
- Sudan Vision
- 22 September 2014
Sudan declares its readiness for making more arrangements and efforts for creating an attractive environment for Arab investors to contribute to achievement of the Arab food security in the Sudan.
Mitsubishi bids $1.4 billion for Cermaq to expand in food
- Bloomberg
- 22 September 2014
Mitsubishi Corp., Japan’s biggest trading house, proposed to buy the Norwegian fishery Cermaq ASA for $1.4 billion to expand its foods business and become the world’s second-largest salmon farmer.
Foreign investors get a taste for dairy industry
- The Australian
- 20 September 2014
Australia's dairy industry is the new flavour of the month among foreign investors, with global pension funds, food companies and wealthy individuals turning their focus from New Zealand towards Victoria and Tasmania.