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Argentina limits ownership by foreigners
- Press TV
- 19 December 2011
Argentina's congress has started to debate a bill that would regulate the purchase of farmland by foreigners in the Latin American country, Press TV reports.
Foreign investment in Aussie farmland on hold
- Property Observer
- 19 December 2011
Foreign investors have spent a record $12 billion buying up Australian farmland and agricultural businesses over the past year, but have put off investing a further $14 billion until the outcome of a Senate inquiry in March 2012, a new report by Ferrier Hodgson says.
Indonesia's land acquisition bill will intensify landgrabbing, says Asian peasant group
- APC
- 17 December 2011
Asian Peasant Coalition's press release on land grabbing in Indonesia
Argentina’s lower house passes bill limiting foreign ownership of rural land to 15 percent
- AP
- 16 December 2011
Argentina’s lower house of Congress has passed a bill limiting foreign ownership of rural land to 1,000 hectares per family. The bill must now be passed by the Senate.
China eyes LatAm agribusiness
- Vox Box
- 16 December 2011
What do Peruvian fishmeal, Chilean wine and Brazilian soy beans have in common? They’re all on China’s shopping list as it steps up its agribusiness acquisitions and investments overseas to overcome considerable supply constraints at home.
Foreigners own 7 percent of Romania's farmland shows GRAIN data
- Business Review
- 16 December 2011
Alongside countries like Liberia, Laos, Congo and Sierra Leone, Romania is one of the countries where foreign companies own large areas of farmland, according to a report put together by GRAIN.
Reap what you sow: Why there's money in farmland
- IFA Online
- 15 December 2011
Tony Hales, managing director of Stadia Trustees, puts forward the case for including farmland in clients’ self-invested personal pensions (UK)
New data sets on land grabbing
- GRAIN
- 15 December 2011
In the past few months, GRAIN staff have been participating in a range of meetings and workshops in different parts of the world on land grabbing. Here are some of the documents we prepared for these meetings.
Reasons of scarcity of Arab investments in Sudan: Is It due to poor promotion or fear of procedures?
- Sudan Vision Daily
- 15 December 2011
Editor of Banking Magazine, El Tijani Hussein Al Khabeir, says that Sudan is capable of feeding one quarter of world population and five folds of Arab countries population
Small-scale farmers decry exclusion, marginalisation
- Guardian
- 14 December 2011
Farmers from Tanzania's Network of Small Scale Farmers (Mviwata) visit the Ministry of Agriculture to explain how recent development projects allocate huge pieces of land to big investors, leaving local farmers without farming land.
Poor paying the cost of large land deals - study
- AlertNet
- 14 December 2011
The global rush to acquire large amounts of land in developing countries has done more harm than good, especially to the poorest people who often lose access to land and resources essential to their livelihoods.
China's $300 billion fund a wake-up call to U.S.
- Reuters
- 14 December 2011
New fund reflects desire in Beijing to acquire real assets, including agricultural lands, say analysts.