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Laos, China sign MOU to develop organic farms
- Vientiane Times
- 26 October 2011
Lao and Chinese businesses this week signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for investment in organic farming in Laos, at a cost of about US$5 million.
Are foreign investors colonising Africa?
- Al Jazeera
- 25 October 2011
Indian author and media commentator Anand Giridharadas joins this Al Jazeera programme along with Oakland Institute’s Executive Director, Anuradha Mittal, and Christine L. Adamow, Managing Director of Africa BioFuel, a US company invested in farmland in Kenya and Tanzania.
Civil society groups call for action to curb land grabbing
- IPS
- 25 October 2011
NGOs tried to get a pronouncement in the Changwon Declaration against the continued grabbing of land throughout Africa and Asia.
Money for Russia’s agriculture
- RT
- 25 October 2011
Russia’s VTB Capital plans $1bn agriculture fund which will begin by buying assets in Russia and Kazakhstan – from land to processing companies.
Can industrialised farming make Africa feed the world?
- BBC
- 24 October 2011
BBC film looks at large-scale industrial farming investments in Zambia.
Vietnamese to produce rice & rubber in Sierra Leone
- Awoko
- 24 October 2011
Three weeks ago, a team of Vietnamese investors and their technical advisers visited Sierra Leone to conduct feasibility studies with the aim of entering the agribusiness sector in the country.
Agriterra eyes extra farmland as losses narrow
- Agrimoney
- 24 October 2011
Agriterra revealed plans for further land expansion even after raising its cattle operations to about 16,700 hectares and entering the cocoa market through the acquisition of a Sierra Leone trader.
The smart money is betting on the Pakistani farm
- Express Tribune
- 24 October 2011
Venture capitalists, merchant bankers and large conglomerates are all piling in.
Rather than investment, appropriation
- Radio Mundo Real
- 24 October 2011
Interview with Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, researcher on agriculture investments
GCC expansion: More Gulf food security?
- Zawya
- 24 October 2011
In the face of growing economies and rising populations, food security is fast becoming a critical issue for GCC countries. Socio-political problems that arise from food price inflation and some related unrest witnessed in many countries of the Arab world have also created an added sense of urgency.
Australia: Plantation shutters
- The Australian
- 22 October 2011
Elders has begun a sale of all its forestry plantations totalling 50,000ha across the country. Much of the land purchased is expected to be planted with sugar cane, bananas or returned to beef grazing, and COFCO and Wilmar International have indicated their interest.
SLC Agricola expands land in Brazilian frontier
- Agrimoney
- 21 October 2011
SLC Agricola has bought its second farm in Brazil's Piaui state in less than two months, expanding into a relatively undeveloped area where land prices are a fraction of those in more popular regions.