• India’s role in the new global farmland grab
      • IDEAs
      • 19 August 2011

      New report provides a detailed examination of the role of the Indian government and Indian companies engaged in overseas agricultural land acquisitions in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

    • Asian agri fund eyes Peruvian palm oil as Malaysia exhausts supply of land
      • Bloomberg
      • 19 August 2011

      Asian Agri Capital, a Singapore private-equity firm that focuses on early-stage plantations, is seeking to raise $100 million to invest in palm oil and other tropical commodities in Southeast Asia and Latin America

    • Tanzania can beat Kenya in horticulture - Indian firm
      • Guardian
      • 19 August 2011

      Karuturi expects to acquire 311,700 ha of land in Tanzania that is similar to Ethiopia and has already applied for 1000 ha of land at Rufiji Basin, Coast Region.

    • Govt offers 6mn acres for ‘corporate farming’
      • Internews
      • 18 August 2011

      The government of Pakistan has offered 6mn acres of its agricultural land to resourceful countries and multinational companies (MNCs) for corporate farming, corporate sources have said.

    • Karuturi global plans $500 million investment in Tanzania food production
      • Bloomberg
      • 18 August 2011

      The company plans to lease land to grow palm oil, sugar cane and cereals in Tanzania, to add to land it has acquired in Ethiopia. Karuturi is visiting Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia as part of a delegation of 35 Indian investors.

    • Zambia: Nansanga bloc farmers face homelessness
      • The Post
      • 17 August 2011

      About nine thousand people who will be evicted from the Nansanga Farm Bloc in chief Muchinda’s area in Serenje district face destitution because the government has not offered them alternative land.

    • Forest fears as Paraguay's Chaco region sees land rush
      • BBC
      • 16 August 2011

      In recent years, Mennonite Christians have been joined by Brazilian ranchers and private European investors, mainly from France, Germany and the Netherlands, to partake in a 21st Century land rush that has wiped out 1m hectares - nearly 10% of the forest - in just four years.

    • China wants to buy soy directly from Brazil's farmers
      • Bernama
      • 16 August 2011

      China, the second-largest buyer of soy in the world wants an end to intermediation by U.S multinational companies working in the sector and plans to invest purchasing directly from farmers in Mato Grosso and another five states in Brazil.

    • Germany dominates NZ dairy farmland sales
      • Agra Europe
      • 16 August 2011

      Despite all the attention on Chinese bids for New Zealand dairy farms, it is in fact Germany that is fast expanding its investments in this sector.

    • The Africasia Funds open for subscription
      • Online PR News
      • 16 August 2011

      The Funds will invest in agricultural, renewable energy plantations and forestry businesses, with a fundamental principal of owning the core assets through the funds with the management of all operations carried out by established operators in the region.

    • Rich-lister leads bid to keep farms from Chinese
      • NZ Herald
      • 16 August 2011

      One of New Zealand's richest men has emerged as a white knight investor with a $105 million bid for big dairy farms that could otherwise be sold to China.

    • Concern about Chinese looking for investment opportunity in WA grain belt
      • ABC
      • 16 August 2011

      The Western Australian Farmers Federation has concerns that Chinese companies are considering buying farms (80,000 ha) across WA's Great Southern and South West.

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