This special edition of DTE newsletter focuses on some of the past and present campaigns and debates around top-down development in Papua and the impact on communities, including the Merauke Estate massive land grab
It’s obvious that pension funds and other big-money managers are ‘getting’ the agri-land investment story.
Since the financial and food crises of 2008, the World Bank Group has incentivized and facilitated land grabs in several countries in Africa, Latin America and parts of Asia.
PensionDanmark har investeret over en halv milliard i afrikansk landsbrugsjord. Pensionsselsskabet forudser, at Afrika bliver den næste store vækstregion.
Bangladesh officials are in preliminary talks with Ukraine for wheat production, considering Cambodia for rice and visiting parts of sub-Saharan Africa to explore similar ventures.
Terra Magna Capital a sélectionné un portefeuille d’exploitations agricoles détenues en pleine propriété, situées en Amérique Latine (en Argentine, Brésil, Paraguay et Uruguay), d’une superficie totale de 70 500 hectares.
Lao Indochina Group, which grows cassava on about 7,700 hectares of land in three provinces in Laos, is mobilising investment funds to expand business.
Designated Drylands Ambassador for the UN's Convention for Combating Desertification says the concerns around land grabbing are valid and very serious.
In addition to the potential ethical issues, many investors were disappointed by the returns from early farmland investments.
In August 2011, Phatisa concluded its first transaction to invest US$ 10 million alongside the Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation Limited (FINNFUND) and the Company’s Sponsors, in Goldtree a palm oil plantation and milling company in Sierra Leone, representing a total investment of US$ 20 million.
Anuradha Mittal of Oakland Institute speaking on land grabs at Moana Nui, November 2011
Corporate agriculture is not about food production or satisfying the needs of the undernourished or downright starving but about producing profit. How long can it be before its limits are reached?
