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An overview of industrial tree plantations in the global South: Conflicts, trends and resistance struggles
- EJOLT
- 03 June 2012
Over the past two decades, industrial tree plantations increased their area in the global South about fourfold.
Indian farmer’s African safari
- Business World
- 02 June 2012
Karuturi, which has 300,000 ha in Ethiopia, is now targeting the DRC, Tanzania, Mozambique, Senegal and Sierra Leone.
Conflict of interest claims in China farmland deal
- ABC
- 01 June 2012
There are unconfirmed reports that former Labor prime minister Bob Hawke is representing a Shanghai-based company wanting to farm all 15,000 hectares of the land being developed as part of the Ord irrigation project in Western Australia.
Los Grobo says Brazil expansion to spur revenue
- Reuters
- 01 June 2012
Los Grobo plans to expand its cultivation in Brazil to 90,000 hectares in the 2012/13 crop year from 60,000 hectares today.
Qatar’s farm fund to target grain, wool exports from Australia
- Bloomberg
- 01 June 2012
Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, with an estimated $100 billion in assets, expects to start exports of grains and wool from Australia as it nears completion of a $486 million farm investment plan
New Mexico council eyes infrastructure, other suballocations to real assets
- Pensions & Investments
- 01 June 2012
New Mexico State Investment Council will consider approving investment policies for a farmland suballocation, potentially in emerging markets, in its 10% long-term real asset portfolio.
SLC wins $239m for Brazil land purchase spree
- Agrimoney
- 31 May 2012
SLC Agricola, the Brazil farm operator with large ambitions in farmland acquisition, sealed a $239m cash injection from UK fund manager Valiance Asset Management for a business aimed at turning scrub into "high-quality" farms.
China eyes wide open spaces
- Sydney Morning Herald
- 31 May 2012
China would invest billions of dollars to transform vast tracts of undeveloped land in northern Australia for farming, under a plan confirmed yesterday by the federal government.
Large-scale land acquisitions in Africa
- AfDB
- 31 May 2012
The distinctive feature of these land deals that has attracted attention is the speed of the acquisitions, the transparency (lack thereof) of the terms and the scale of the acquisitions and implied investment.
Investment principles for farmland
- DTE
- 31 May 2012
The PRI for Farmland are supposed to an opportunity for communities and CSOs to assess the performance of investors in farmland against a set of voluntary standards, but fall short of what’s needed to hold companies properly to account.
China seeks free path to farmland buy-up
- Weekly Times Now
- 30 May 2012
The Chinese Government is seeking less scrutiny of its Australian farm raids. Sources say the Chinese are pushing the issue as part of a planned free trade agreement with Australia.
Enough capital for African farming, but investors want viable entrepreneurs
- HowWeMadeItInAfrica
- 30 May 2012
Trilogy Capital is involved in a large scale agriculture project in Ethiopia with US-based Morrell Agro Industries.