Black Earth Farming lauded the Russian government's decision to keep grain export markets open, despite a poor national harvest, crediting it for helping the group achieve its best quarterly results as a listed company.
- Agrimoney
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23 November 2012
The New Zealand government will set up a NZ$6 million model dairy farm in Burma/Myanmar, Prime Minister John Key says.
- interest.co.nz
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22 November 2012
Kenana Sugar Company announces the launch of MAHASEEL Agricultural Investment Fund, an agricultural investment fund with estimated $1 billion in collaboration with CIFG an international financial group, a subsidiary of France's Groupe Caisse d'Épargne.
- Sudan Vision
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22 November 2012
You might be interested to look at the Global Strategic Framework (GSF) which was endorsed by the FAO Committee on Food Security 39th Session in October.
Ukraine’s parliament extended a ban on sales of farmland by three years to January 2016, giving time to prepare related legislation.
- Bloomberg
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21 November 2012
A bill presented before Colombia's congress on Tuesday seeks to increase regulation of foreign investment in Colombia's land and agriculture.
- Colombia Reports
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21 November 2012
Send a message to Herakles Farms and All for Africa demanding they stop destroying tropical rainforest and local livelihoods and ask the Government of Cameroon to listen to the voices of the Cameroonian people.
- Oakland Institute
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21 November 2012
After almost three years of negotiations that involved governments, civil society organisations (CSOs) and other groups, the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security was officially endorsed on 11 May 2012 by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The government allocated some 350.000 hectares to Sime Darby, a Malaysian multinational. But people only came to know about this deal when the company showed up to take their land.
For all the willing buyers seeking tracts of Australian farm land, local investors are not among them. They wonder what all the fuss is about.
Continued economic uncertainties are prompting a back-to-the-land movement among investors. And a favored choice of land is farmland.
- Arkansas Business
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19 November 2012
Oil palm giant, Wilmar Nigeria Limited, and the Rainforest Resource and Development Centre (RRDC), an environmental rights group, are currently at logger heads over a massive land grab in a rural community in Cross River State, Southern Nigeria.
- All Voices
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18 November 2012