Alternative investing: Digging into farmland
      Finding suitable farmland investment vehicles is not as easy as one might think.
      • CNBC
      • 03 January 2011
      Georgia calls on SA farmers for help
      The government of Georgia is offering state-owned farmland, for purchase, to farmer members of the Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU) in South Africa
      • Business Day
      • 31 December 2010
      The changing face of agricultural business
      "We want to make agriculture sexy," says the head of Macquaraie's Retail Agribuiness operation.
      • Farm Weekly
      • 30 December 2010
      The great land grab in Mali
      Local farmers risk losing their land and their livelihood, but perhaps the greatest risk of the Malibya project in Mali is the loss of water.
      • The Hindu
      • 28 December 2010
      Land: The new international strategic asset. How Africa is losing big time
      The seizing of the poor farmers' land is destroying their only hope of survival on earth.
      • Modern Ghana
      • 27 December 2010
      Bangladesh wants rice and land concessions
      Bangladesh wants to invest in growing rice in Cambodia for future exports back to Bangladesh and has requested long-term land leases for up to 99 years, such as Cambodia has already granted to other countries.
      • Phnom Penh Post
      • 27 December 2010
      Revisiting the issue of “land grabbing”
      Affected rural poor communities and their allies are not likely to simply accept the land grabbing process in the way the World Bank and its supporters might suppose.
      • Capital Ethiopia
      • 27 December 2010
      Agria interest purely investment: chairman
      Chinese agribusiness companies Agria and New Hope Group launched a joint bid to take Agria's stake in New Zealand's PGGW to a controlling 50.01%, but Agria CEO Xie Tao said the move was not motivated to secure resources such as food.
      • Otago Daily Times
      • 26 December 2010
      IBON Land Grabbing Policy Brief 2010
      Investors are taking advantage of cheap land resources from poorer countries whose populations are even more food insecure.
      • IBON
      • 26 December 2010
      "Land leasing and BBC cynicism": Ethiopian government responds
      Not a single farmer has been dispossessed of his holding on account of foreign investment, blasts Ethiopia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
      • Week Horn Africa
      • 24 December 2010
      Selling to Korea
      CNN's Robyn Curnow sat down with the head of Tanzania's Development Authority, Aloyce Msanja, to find out about the sale of "unused" land to Korea.
      • CNN
      • 24 December 2010
      Yes it is indeed Land Grab and illegal too
      The Diaspora is just airing the voice of the voiceless Ethiopians for those who are on a land bonanza to stop hurting our people. There is a great danger coming. When? No one knows but it is coming.
      • Ecadforum
      • 24 December 2010

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