Al Dahra Agriculture signs EUR300 million agreement with Serbian Government
- WAM
- 14 January 2013
The intended aim is to meet Abu Dhabi's vision and strategy for long-term food security.
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Japanese firm buys stake in local pork producer
- Winnipeg Free Press
- 12 January 2013
The Itochu Corporation acquires a 33.4% stake in HyLife, one of Canada's largest pig producers, for $56.5 million.
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Soya boom in Gúruè has produced few bigger farmers – so far
- 11 January 2013
Thousands of subsistence farmers in Gúruè district are earning small amounts of money from soya. However, there are a few larger farmers. And land conflicts are increasing.
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UAE crown prince announces numerous investments
- B92
- 10 January 2013
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan will become a majority owner of eight Serbian agriculture corporations that own 9,000 hectares of land and will lease an additional 14,000 hectares of arable land in Serbia for EUR 250 per hectare per year.
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Indian company invests in mung bean and sesame seed production in Mozambique
- Macauhub
- 10 January 2013
Primus Agri Products is investing US$3 million to commercially produce mung beans and sesame seeds on 170 ha in Mozambique’s Nampula province for export to Asia.
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Egypt: Turning deserts into fields
- IRIN
- 10 January 2013
A delegation from the Ministry of Agriculture is preparing to visit Sudan later this year to examine the possibility of growing wheat on as many as 470,000 hectares of Sudanese land.
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China fund vying for stake in Australia dairy
- Wall Street Journal
- 09 January 2013
China's sovereign-wealth fund is one of three large funds vying to take a stake in Australian dairy company Van Diemen's Land Co.
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Swiss boutique sets up responsible farmland investment hub
- Responsible Investor
- 09 January 2013
EBG Capital, a Swiss environmental investment boutique led by two former Credit Suisse executives, has launched an “information hub” for asset owners and managers that want to invest in farmland responsibly.
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Poland farmers protest sale of land to foreign multinationals
- Digital Journal
- 08 January 2013
In four cities in Poland, farmers are demonstrating against Polish farmland being sold to foreign multinationals. Now they need international support for their protests.
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China’s Rising Soybean Consumption Reshaping Western Agriculture
- 08 January 2013
Global demand for soybeans has soared in recent decades, with China leading the race. Nearly 60 percent of all soybeans entering international trade today go to China, making it far and away the world’s largest importer.
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Land grabbing, investment principles and plural legal orders of land use
- CPL
- 07 January 2013
A rights-based vision as brought forward by the FAO guidelines still bears the risk of reinforcing unequal local power structures. Instead, more long-term strategies for the protection of customary rights are required. Thus, a moratorium on ‘land grabs’ would be most appropriate.
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A parched future: Global land and water grabbing
- 3quarksdaily
- 07 January 2013
Rulli and colleagues estimate that global land grabbing is associated with the grabbing of 308 billion m3 of green water (i.e. rain water) and an additional grabbing of blue water that can range from 11 billion m3 (current irrigation practices) to 146 billion m3 (maximal irrigation) per year. To put these numbers in perspective, the average daily household consumption of water in the UK is 150 liters (0.15 m3) per person.
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