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Brazil thwarts Macquarie crop move
- Stock & Land
- 07 November 2011
Group's $700 million international crop fund has been dealt a serious blow with new foreign investment restrictions on rural property in Brazil stalling its expansion.
Dubai firm invests $500m in Tanzania
- Business Week
- 07 November 2011
City Energy & Infrastructure will be involved in the development of a sugar plantation and sugar processing plant in an area of 100,000 hectares.
South Sudanese fear impact of farming deals
- Sudan Net
- 06 November 2011
Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital, which has leased 259,500 acres for farming in Unity state, is among dozens of foreign entities to have struck large land deals in the new country.
Prince Charles speaks out against land grabs
- Telegraph
- 05 November 2011
"It is profoundly distressing to learn of numerous rural communities being evicted from their ancestral lands in the headwaters and upper floodplains of great rivers like the Nile and Niger to make way for export-oriented estates," says Prince.
Prince Charles on land grabbing
- Prince of Wales
- 05 November 2011
"I wonder if greater returns could come for Africa if attention were paid to backing the continent’s millions of smallholders? And yet, as I speak, many are being driven off their land and swelling the ranks of the urban dispossessed."
COFCO to expand overseas M&A
- China Daily
- 04 November 2011
"Because of the nation's limited agricultural resources, we have to look overseas," Jiang Hua, a COFCO board member said. The company is trying to connect China's consumer market with overseas supplies of commodities such as sugar, wheat and soybeans.
Prices for Brazil's big farms slide on foreign ownership restrictions
- Progressive Farmer
- 03 November 2011
The Brazilian government's decision to block major foreign land purchases from August 2010 has had a very real impact: prices for lots larger than 3,000 hectares have fallen by 10% or more over the past year, depending on the region.
The New land grab in Africa: An alarming scramble for the continent is on
- Pambazuka
- 03 November 2011
Multinational corporations are buying enormous tracts of land in Africa, putting countries on the path to increased food insecurity, environmental degradation, increased reliance on aid and marginalisation of farming and pastoralist communities.
For Liberia, natural resources are blessings, curses on road to democracy
- PBS
- 03 November 2011
The West African nation of Liberia is rich is oil, diamonds and timber, but these natural resources have been both a blessing and a challenge for the fledgling democracy.
ADAX Energy must be investigated for segregation!
- Awareness Times
- 03 November 2011
“We decided to go on hunger strike at the ADAX Energy Canteen at Kontobi in Port Loko as fellow Sierra Leone employees were facing segregation,” says Sierra Leone Deputy Minister.
$265m food fund for Bahrain is launched
- Gulf Daily News
- 03 November 2011
The Finance Ministry and the National Bank of Bahrain have agreed to set up a $265.2m fund that will invest in companies and purchase land in overseas countries for captive production.
New land scramble worries small farmers
- The Citizen
- 03 November 2011
Tanzanian peasaants complain that the government has been allocating huge tracts of land to certain investors in the district, while refusing to allocate the same pieces of land to local groups that had applied for them.