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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.
Sime Darby to invest $3.1 bln in Liberia project
- Reuters
- 20 May 2011
Company also in talks with the government of Cameroon on a project estimated to be worth $2.1 billion.
Mitsui to boost Brazil soy exports 50% on expansion in food commodities
- Bloomberg
- 20 May 2011
Mitsui may still add a partner to co-invest in Multigrain, as the Japanese company needs a local player to help purchase more land, says company official.
Food profits to rise: Macquarie
- Financial Standard
- 19 May 2011
Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management owns 31,500sq km of Australian grazing land on which it runs cattle and sheep.
Water shortages threaten growth in Gulf states
- Arabian Business
- 18 May 2011
Gulf states have opted to buy up large tracts of farmland in developing countries in a bid to safeguard their food supplies – a strategy that risks exporting their water shortages to other nations, analysts said.
Food: The hidden driver of global politics
- NPR
- 18 May 2011
In some of the countries where the land investments are being made, people will block the trucks that are hauling the grain from the fields to the ports, says Lester Brown in this interview with NPR
Land and land grabbing: Reflections and questions
- Ram's Horn
- 18 May 2011
Brewster Kneen discusses what, in the West, is largely overlooked in discussions about land grabbing: how we conceptualize and think about land and our relationship to it.
Land policy: Key to food security in Africa
- African Executive
- 18 May 2011
The studies that we have seen can prove no link between land purchases and food security, says German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Personal Assitant on African Affairs.
Saudi businessmen encouraged to invest in Sri Lanka
- ColomboPage
- 18 May 2011
Sri Lanka's Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen invites Saudi businessmen to invest in Sri Lanka and says his country can cultivate agricultural crops for Saudi Arabia.
Laos swamped by foreign investment
- AFP
- 18 May 2011
A new Chinese-controlled town inside Laos where Laotians are not welcome.
Hedge farm! The doomsday food price scenario turning hedgies into survivalists
- NY Observer
- 17 May 2011
On the rare occasion that New Yorkers talk about farming, it's usually something along the lines of what sort of organic kale to plant in the vanity garden at the second house in the Adirondacks.