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Who’s buying the farm?
- The Land
- 24 August 2012
Australians are entitled to test and scrutinise the benefits of foreign acquisitions to ensure they are in our national interest and, importantly, safeguard Australia’s role in global food security.
Court decision stops Santos agricultural development model in its tracks
- La Semana
- 24 August 2012
In a decision of great import, the Constitutional Court of Colombia has just struck down a legislative amendment that would have allowed for new types of land concentration in this country.
Ethics complaint against AgriSol's Rastetter dismissed: Public scrutiny however unravels Rastetter's business dealings
- Oakland Institute
- 24 August 2012
The ethics complaint was filed by the Des Moines-based citizen group, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, for misusing his membership on the Iowa Board of Regents that oversees Iowa's public universities to advance an "African land grab".
Garifuna People of Honduras launch land recovery campaign
- OFRANEH
- 23 August 2012
Campaign opposes land grabs of traditional territories in Honduras by elites and foreign investors.
Analysts see investments in Brazil, other arable lands increasing during US drought
- PR Newswire
- 23 August 2012
Agriculture investment consultants are closely watching the impact that the prolonged drought is likely to have on global corn and soybean carry outs, and the incentive it is creating for increased double cropping in countries such as Brazil.
Handbook of land and water grabs in Africa: Foreign direct investment and food and water security
- Routledge
- 23 August 2012
The editors have involved a highly diverse group of expert researchers, who review the pro- and anti-investment arguments, geopolitics, the role of capitalist investors, the environmental contexts and the political implications of, and reasons for, leasing millions of hectares in sub-Saharan Africa.
Responsible farmland investing? Current efforts to regulate land grabs will make things worse
- GRAIN
- 22 August 2012
From the World Bank to pension funds, efforts are under way to regulate land grabs through the creation of codes and standards. Rather than help financial and corporate elites to "responsibly invest" in farmland, we need them to stop and divest.
Chinese entrepreneurs invest US$250m in Mozambique agriculture
- Xinhua
- 22 August 2012
Authorities in the southern Mozambican province of Gaza said that a group of Chinese businessmen are investing US$250 million in an agricultural project covering 20,000 hectares in the Limpopo Valley.
Stolen land, stolen future
- Greens/EFA
- 22 August 2012
Film inspired by an APRODEV report on land grabbing in Cambodia
PNG land grab update
- Development Policy
- 22 August 2012
It is expected that the final report of the Commission of Inquiry into Special Agricultural and Business Leases (SABLs) will shortly be tabled in Papua New Guinea’s national parliament, but no one yet knows what it will recommend, let alone whether Peter O’Neill’s new government will act on those recommendations.
Cargill fund boosts agri firm expansion
- Malaya
- 21 August 2012
Powered by a $34.45-million infusion from a Singapore-based hedge fund owned by Cargill Inc., the expansion and acquisition binge of AgriNurture Inc. has accelerated into a buildup of farm hectarage that will see the company buy up some 1,400 hectares.
Brazilian companies eye agricultural sector
- Daily News
- 21 August 2012
The companies, which produce mainly soya, sugarcane, corn and cotton, were informed about the opportunities for investment in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT).