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Rogers joins board of farmland investment group
- Investment Week
- 03 October 2011
Commodities investor Jim Rogers has been appointed to the board of the farmland investment firm Genagro Ltd
Sun Biofuels jatropha project in Kisarawe suspended
- Tanzania Daily News
- 03 October 2011
The EU lured many multinational energy companies such as SBF to invest in renewable energies in developing countries such Tanzania where almost all projects are on the verge of collapse or shut down.
What Drives the Global “Land Rush”?
- World Bank
- 01 October 2011
This World Bank Policy Research Working Paper explores determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture.
Tilling new ground on Africa’s Gold Coast
- Corn&Soybean Digest
- 01 October 2011
With investors from the Middle East and the U.S., Africa Atlantic Farms is pursuing mechanised farming on 10,000 hectares it has leased in Ghana in the Afram Plains region, with plans to expand.
Preventing foreign land grabs in Colombia
- Colombia Reports
- 30 September 2011
It is very important that the Colombian government takes actions to sustainably develop Colombia’s agricultural sector, without endangering its sovereign control over this sector.
The Endowment and Africa: HMC should disavow investments that disenfranchise the world’s poor
- The Crimson
- 30 September 2011
At the current stage, we do not have adequately available evidence to consider either HMC or Emergent at fault for the purported economic wrongdoings outlined in the Oakland Institute report.
BBC viewers' questions put to Cargill boss
- BBC
- 29 September 2011
Cargill CEO says he's "concerned" about foreign farmland grabs and says "no company's big enough to be a police force onto itself".
Agriculture investing: 7 billion people need to eat
- Energy and Capital
- 29 September 2011
"At the end of the day — for all the stocks and funds I've traded in countless industries — when I sit down and ponder true wealth, I always come back to one idea: land. Land can give you everything you need and more."
Stand up for small-scale food producers
- Grassroots International
- 29 September 2011
Groups urge people in the US and Canada to take action on land grabbing.
‘Work with local experts to avoid land grabbing practices’
- SNS Impact Investing
- 29 September 2011
SNS Impact Investing interviewed Dr. George Owusu from the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana in Accra.
For some Brazilian farmers Africa is the new frontier
- ANBA
- 29 September 2011
With opportunities in neighboring countries almost finished and due to the expensive land, Brazilian agriculture has started showing up in Africa, here and there, but promising to grow.
Land converted for biofuels, farmers harassed
- Bulatlat
- 29 September 2011
The case of farmers in Misamis Oriental in Mindanao, Philippines