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Gambian leader aims at agro-export
- All About Feed
- 30 Mar 2011
President says a Gulf State company is expected to invest $80-100 million in the country's agriculture in the near future, citing a 400,000 ha rice project.
Protocole d'accord entre la Société SENETHANOL et la communauté rurale de Fanaye
- 30 Mar 2011
Protocol portant accord de principe de la mise à la disposition pour Fanaye à Senethanol (Italie) d'une surface cultivable de 20,000ha destiné à la culture de patates doueces et à la production d'éthanol et d'aliments de bétails.
Ethiopia: A country for sale
- Pambazuka
- 30 Mar 2011
Ethiopia is on sale. Everybody is getting a piece of her. For next to nothing. The land vultures have been swooping down on Gambella from all parts of the world.
Bangladesh govt prods local investors to farm cotton, food in Africa
- Financial Express
- 30 Mar 2011
The move comes after two fact-finding missions led by the foreign secretary last year found farming in the so-called dark continent "exceedingly lucrative" for Bangladeshi investors.
President's Administration says foreigners should have right to privatize farmland
- ForUm
- 30 Mar 2011
First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration Iryna Akimova said that foreign nationals should be eligible for the privatization of agricultural land in Ukraine.
Uruguay’s farmland price jumped eight times from 2002 to 2010
- MercoPress
- 30 Mar 2011
President Jose Mujica said that private land sales will be honoured but under no conditions will sovereign funds or foreign countries be allowed to purchase land in Uruguay as is happening in Africa.
‘Foreigners own 74 m acres of farmland in Africa’: What will prospective candidates do about this?
- Daily Trust
- 29 Mar 2011
In Nigeria today, foreign acquisition of arable agriculture land has become a hot and widely discuss issue.
Land as a hot commodity
- Wall Street Journal
- 29 Mar 2011
Higher land prices are here to stay; an additional inflationary tailwind for the already rising cost of food.
Corn on the Cambodian cob suits Korean farmer
- Joong Ang Daily
- 28 Mar 2011
Lee Woo-chang set up a farming company called KomerCN in Cambodia in December 2008 to grow corn for export to Korea on 21 ha. He now wants to expand the farm to 13,000 ha.
Land grabbing: The new scramble for Africa
- Kontext TV
- 28 Mar 2011
Since the food and financial crisis in 2008, a race for arable land has started worldwide. States, corporations, banks and funds of rich countries buy up large chunks of land to produce agrofuels and grow crops for food - or just to speculate.
Egypt seeks food and water security in Sudan
- AFP
- 27 Mar 2011
Sudanese officials have set aside 17,000 hectares of land in White Nile state for an Egyptian meat project.
African land, up for grabs
- Anyuak Media
- 27 Mar 2011
A land grab is taking place all across Africa, a transfer of control unprecedented in the post-colonial era.