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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.
Interdiction to sell farmland to foreigners difficult to achieve
- Nine O'Clock
- 21 May 2012
The extension of the interdiction to sell agricultural land to foreigners after 2014 is a request that cannot be granted, says the Minister of European Affairs, Leonard Orban.
Farmers assert IFFM report, slams palm oil firm
- SunStar
- 21 May 2012
The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas and the Asian Peasant Coalition lambasted Nakeen Corporation, a company that operates a palm oil plantation in Misamis Oriental, for spreading lies and deception during their press conference held on May 17, 2012.
Fred Pearce: Land grabbing has more of an impact on the world's poor than climate change
- The Guardian
- 20 May 2012
The science and environment author discusses a growing global threat
US trader goes from Wall-Street investments to buying farmland In Romania and Bulgaria
- Ziarul Financiar
- 18 May 2012
Jeffrey Notaro, a trader who worked on Wall Street for 18 years, set up investment fund Black Sea Agriculture seven years ago, mainly for investments in farmland in northern Bulgaria and south Romania.
Obama urged to reassess Ethiopian relations over land evictions
- Bloomberg
- 18 May 2012
The U.S. should reassess its support for the government of Ethiopia, amid concern that more than half a million people are being evicted to make land available for foreign investment in agriculture, advocacy groups say.
Farmland investments in Africa - Can they be both ethical and profitable?
- Technorati
- 18 May 2012
Given the need for investment in African agriculture, there is no reason that foreign farmland investment on the continent cannot be structured as a win-win for both private investors and the host country populations.
Fact sheet: G-8 action on food security and nutrition
- US government
- 18 May 2012
Obama announces G8's New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition and reiterates support for the "process and pilot use of the Principles of Responsible Agricultural Investment"
From under their feet
- LandforAfricanwomen.org
- 18 May 2012
New paper on the gender dimensions of land grabbing in Africa
Is your retirement fund a land-grabber?
- IATP
- 17 May 2012
The Financial Times reported this week that TIAA-CREF is developing a new “investment vehicle” that will bet the retirement funds of millions of American on the rising price of farmland around the world.