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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.
Bangladeshi companies launch Africa farm lease plan
- BBC
- 17 May 2011
Bangladeshi companies say they have leased thousands of hectares of farmland in Africa as part of their efforts to avoid future food shortages.
Southland sees surge in overseas sales
- Rural News
- 17 May 2011
More Southland land has been sold to overseas investors in the past year than at any other time during the past six years.
Sudan: Arabs agricultural investment in Northern State
- SUNA
- 17 May 2011
Governor of Northern State says an Emirates investor, to whom 95,000 acres have been allocated in Um-Jawaseer, will invest USD 15 million.