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Experts warn of risks in unbridled foreigners’ access to farmlands
- Business Insight
- 26 November 2010
Efforts must be made to ensure that foreign access to local agricultural lands follow strict guidelines
Ethiopia: Land rent contractual agreement made between Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Hunan Dafengyuan PLC
- 25 November 2010
Contract covers the lease of 25,000 ha in the Regional State of Gambela for a period of 40 years, with option for renewal, for the production of sugar cane.
Ethiopia: Land rent contractual agreement made between Ministry of Agriculture and Saudi Star Agricultural Development PLC
- 25 November 2010
Covers 10,000 ha in Gambela Regional State for the production of rice, for an initial period of 50 years, with option for renewal.
Five African leaders to attend Riyadh investment meet
- Saudi Gazette
- 25 November 2010
The participants will explore emerging trends in agriculture in GCC states and Africa and debate on how to turn them into mutually beneficial business relations between the two sides.
Jenaan to plant $500m venture
- The National
- 25 November 2010
Abu Dhabi's Jenaan Investment owns and leases properties in Egypt and Sudan, as well as leasing land in Tanzania, Ethiopia and the US.
Rejection of the MIFEE continues
- Tempo
- 25 November 2010
The Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) Program, a project which the government claims will be able to bring economic and social welfare for the Papua people, was rejected by the local people themselves.
Land deals of wealthy nations
- PRI
- 24 November 2010
Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Ruth Meinzen-Dick, a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, about the downside of land deals between countries.
Mali helps Libya with leased farmland
- PRI
- 24 November 2010
The farner’s union claims that the Malibya deal was done behind closed doors and then presented as a fait accompli, a deal that effectively hands over control of Mali’s main rice growing region to a foreign power.
Why corporate Canada is very interested in buying the farm
- Globe and Mail
- 24 November 2010
Saskatchewan has some of the richest and least expensive farmland in the world, and there's a gigantic pool of global money that would like to buy up as much of it as they can.
Boardroom farmers: Some of the world's biggest agricultural investors
- Globe and Mail
- 24 November 2010
Global investment funds have sunk as much as $20-billion (U.S.) into farmland, last year alone they bought 111 million acres of farmland.
UAE, Saudi eye more farmland leasing overseas
- Reuters
- 24 November 2010
The UAE and Saudi Arabia will continue to invest in acquiring farmland abroad as part of their strategy to secure food supplies.
What cost foreign interest?
- Stock & Land
- 24 November 2010
Government has taken action to resolve lingering speculation and strengthen transparency surrounding the degree of foreign ownership in Australian agriculture.