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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.
The land-grab trap: Is there a will to govern global land grabbing?
- Focaal Blog
- 19 September 2014
Will the CSM get caught up in a hegemonic “land-grab trap” standing in for principles that turned out weak and entirely outside of their control?
Twiggy bets on China food boom
- The Land
- 19 September 2014
The chairman of the New Hope Group is a key Chinese partner in the Sino-Australia 100-Year Agricultural and Food Safety Partnership-- an initiative founded by mining billionaire Andrew Forrest
Karuturi fails to comply with SEBI
- Business Standard
- 18 September 2014
Move to seek an extension of AGM date comes after a series of issues it has been facing at its expansive roses farms in Kenya and allegations of land grab at its ambitious agriculture foray in Ethiopia.