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Tanzania: Country urged to reduce land lease period to investors
- East African Business Week
- 28 May 2012
Tanzania has been advised to reduce land lease agreement to investors to below 50 years from the current 99.
Illovo pulls out of Mali sugar project
- Reuters
- 28 May 2012
South African group Illovo Sugar has pulled out of a 2.6 billion rand sugar project in Mali, largely due to political risk and also funding difficulties, and will focus on growth opportunities elsewhere in Africa.
Qatar's Hassad eyes $625m spend on food supplies
- Bloomberg
- 28 May 2012
Hassad Food Co, the agricultural investment arm of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, may invest 500m euros this year to increase food supplies for the desert emirate, the company’s chairman said.
Tanzania: Land losers for hefty compensation
- Tanzania Daily News
- 28 May 2012
The government is in the final stages of introducing a Land Authority whose duties, among others, will include dealing with land investments as well as establishment of a land bank and database.
Ministry to take measures against large-scale farm projects
- The Reporter
- 26 May 2012
According to the evaluation that the ministry did in the past few weeks, some of the large-scale land acquisitions in Ethiopia are not performing as expected in implementing their projects.
Foreign land grab threat not just an illusion
- Bangkok Post
- 24 May 2012
Concerns about land grabbing stem from a desire to hold the government accountable when the drive to make Thailand the Kitchen of the World ends up destroying ecological systems, small farmers' livelihoods, and our food security.
UN worried by land use in Asia
- UPI
- 23 May 2012
Intensive use of land for food exports and biofuel production must not come at the expense of human rights in Southeast Asia, the United Nations warned.
Did TIAA-CREF just launch the future of institutional investment?
- Institutional Investor
- 23 May 2012
A pension fund(!) has seeded(!) a new company (i.e., not a fund!) that will invest its own assets as well as those of peers(!) in actual farms(!) in the developed and developing world!
Cameroon: Forests pressured as leaders welcome palm oil investors
- AlterNet
- 23 May 2012
Six foreign-owned companies are currently trying to secure over 1 million hectares (about 2.5 million acres) of land for the production of palm oil in the country's forested southern zone, according to a coalition of environmental organisations.
Wheat price skyrockets and wheat farmland investments stand to benefit
- Seeking Alpha
- 22 May 2012
Investment advisors point to current rise in wheat prices as one more reason to invest in farmland...
Cameroon says Cargill eyes 50,000-ha oil palm project
- Reuters
- 22 May 2012
U.S agribusiness conglomerate Cargill plans to invest up to US$390 million in a 50,000-hectare oil palm plantation in Cameroon, an official at the Central African nation's investment agency said on state radio.
Investors vow to end sugar scarcity
- Tanzania Daily News
- 22 May 2012
India's Mahakaushal Sugar and Power Industries has acquired 12,000 ha, and more efforts are being made to acquire an additional 15,000 ha, along Lower Rufiji River basin in Utunge Ward, Tanzania.