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Zuellig Group to secure it’s own feed milling requirement with corn production
- All About Feed
- 18 Mar 2011
Zuellig Group will set up a 30,000-hectare corn plantation in the Philippines to ensure that its own feed milling requirements are met.
Brazil tightens land acquisition by foreigners: ‘speculators and sovereign funds’
- MercoPress
- 17 Mar 2011
The Brazilian government now prohibits non-Brazilians from buying controlling shares of companies that own vast tracts of territory in the country, Attorney General Luiz Inacio Adams said this week.
Betting the farm – and winning
- Macleans
- 17 Mar 2011
Investors are buying Canadian agricultural land, betting that rising food prices, a ballooning global population and growing worldwide scarcities in farmland will mean a payoff for them.
Food-the next big bankable idea?
- Reuters
- 17 Mar 2011
Seeds, land and fertilizer are among the top places food and agriculture executives and economists said they would put their money, betting on global population growth.
Chinese agricultural group to acquire 200K hectares of land globally
- Fresh Fruit Portal
- 15 Mar 2011
China’s largest agricultural company plans to acquire 200,000 hectares of land in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Australia, the Philippines, Zimbabwe and Russia in 2011.
AgroGeneration targeting Ukraine
- Reuters
- 15 Mar 2011
French farm investor AgroGeneration aims to double its business in Ukraine and make a foray in Argentina.
Why socially responsible investing should not be seen as a burden
- HowWeMadeItInAfrica
- 15 Mar 2011
Responsible agricultural investment should recognise and respect land and related resource rights, says head of the research and information department at South Africa’s Industrial Development Corporation
Top 6 myths about land acquisitions
- Landesa
- 14 Mar 2011
With rising food and energy prices there is no reason to think that this rush to acquire agricultural land in the developing world will end anytime soon.
Harvesting returns: investing in agriculture
- Wall Street Journal
- 14 Mar 2011
David Murrin, CIO at Emergent Asset Management, stresses the difficulties of jumping aboard the African growth story. "It is very hard to take advantage of the tremendous growth in African agriculture and that's why private equity investment is so important, it helps capture some of that growth," he says.
HLPE consultation on land tenure and international investments in agriculture
- FAO
- 14 Mar 2011
The FAO High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition held an online consultation on land tenure and international investments in agriculture from 24 January to 11 February 2011.
“Land Grabbing” in developing countries: Foreign investors, regulation and codes of conduct
- RePEc
- 14 Mar 2011
Paper by Nadia Cuffaro (University of Cassino) and David Hallam (FAO)
Australian firms eye investment in food processing sector
- Pakistan Observer
- 13 Mar 2011
Australian companies are interested in making investment in Pakistan’s agriculture sector from production of crops to their processing and export.