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Karuturi and the conquest of the African mind space
- Financial Express
- 24 May 2011
Ram Karuturi says he is targeting to acquire up to a million hectares of land in Ethiopia and other parts of Africa to build an integrated global agri-product company.
Ukraine to lift ban on sale of farmland in 2012, Le Monde says
- Bloomberg
- 24 May 2011
Ukraine plans to lift a ban on the sale of farmland next year, Le Monde reported, citing an interview with Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk.
Why the reports of Bangladesh farming mega deals in Africa sound strange
- African Agriculture
- 23 May 2011
If the early reports are anything to go by, the Bangladeshi deals already incorporate many elements that suggest they are being done in a way likely to engender fierce resentment and opposition in the African countries concerned.
Way out west, another bubble is forming
- Sydney Morning Herald
- 23 May 2011
Regulators are warning that a new real estate bubble may be forming across the US grain belt -- and National Australia Bank is right in the middle.
Colombia shifts from drugs to food in farm expansion
- Reuters
- 23 May 2011
Colombia plans to nearly double agricultural land growing crops for food and biofuel, part of a new investment boom in the country as violence ebbs from a decades-long internal conflict fueled by drug profits.
Law does not prohibit leasing land if it's beneficial to Kazakhstan - Agriculture Ministry
- Kazinform
- 23 May 2011
According to the legislation, Kazakhstan has the right to lease land to foreigners for a period of 10 years says Vice Minister of Agriculture Saktash Khassenov
South American nations move to limit foreign ownership of agricultural land
- Catholic Online
- 23 May 2011
Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay have united to draft laws to limit acquisition by foreigners of extensive tracts of their fertile agricultural land.
Bangladesh to get 60,000 hectares for farming in Uganda
- Daily Star
- 23 May 2011
Of the produce, 20 percent will go to the government of Uganda, and the remaining will be sent to Bangladesh with a profit of 10 percent plus production cost, says Nitol-Niloy Group
Bangladesh seeks African land
- BBC
- 23 May 2011
Companies in Bangladesh are planning to lease thousands of hectares of land for agriculture in some African countries. Robert Ziegler, the Director General of the International Rice Research Institute, believes that Bangladesh's food strategy will become more widespread.
10pc of PNG lost in forest land grab
- The Australian
- 21 May 2011
More than 10 per cent of Papua New Guinea's land mass has been handed over to foreign and national corporate interests over the past seven years under mysterious land deals that appear to be aimed at logging, not food or cash crop production.
Sime invests in Liberia
- The Star Online
- 21 May 2011
In 2009 Sime Darby Plantation acquired a 63-year concession covering 220,000ha in Liberia that it will developed into oil palm and rubber plantations
EU parliamentarian condemns Cambodia’s “blood sugar” exports
- dpa
- 20 May 2011
A member of the European Parliament said Friday she would push for the European Union to suspend trade preferences for Cambodian sugar after meeting villagers who had been evicted to make way for huge concessions.