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Georgia calling on African farmers
- ABN
- 19 November 2010
The Transvaal Agricultural Union believes as many as a thousand skilled South African farmers could go to plough their own furrow in Georgia where the government is offering them 80,000 ha
Keep farms Kiwi: Fonterra
- Business Day
- 18 November 2010
New Zealand's need for overseas capital does not mean giving away control or ownership of farms, says Fonterra chairman.
Answers to the global food crisis
- YouTube
- 18 November 2010
Anuradha Mittal talks about land grabbing
Via Campesina action against land grabbing
- Via Campesina
- 17 November 2010
Video of Via Campesina action at the FAO headquarters in October 2010
Sojitz plans to start producing soybeans in Argentina
- Bloomberg
- 17 November 2010
Sojitz will lease 11,000 hectares of farmland cultivating soybeans, corn, wheat and other crops in the Pampas region and may expand to 200,000 hectares.
Abu Dhabi moves to secure food supply
- Zawya.com
- 17 November 2010
Abu Dhabi Sources will be going up against well established trading houses, including Glencore, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus.
Agri-Vie, with Herman Marais
- ABN
- 17 November 2010
Agri-Vie, a private equity fund focused on food and agribusiness investments - including farmland - in subSaharan Africa, closed its first fund with participation from Kellogg Foundation, NorFund, IFC and AfDB.
Farmers want register of overseas buyers of Oz farmland & water licences
- ABC
- 16 November 2010
New South Wales Farmers Association is calling for a register of all overseas purchases of Australian agricultural land and water licenses.
Sierra Leone: Koroma gives 50,000 acres to CHICASON
- Concord Times
- 15 November 2010
"I will give [Nigeria's] CHICASON not less than 50,000 acres of land anywhere in the country," says the President of Sierra Leone.
Olam invests US$1.5b in Gabon
- Channel News
- 15 November 2010
Olam CEO says his company utilises political risk insurance from the World Bank and other sources for its agri-investments in Africa.
Olam to invest USD236 mln in palm oil plantations in Gabon
- Olam
- 15 November 2010
Gabon committs a land bank of 300,000 hectares to Olam for palm and rubber plantation development.
Foreign land grab on Aussie farms and brands to secure local food supply
- Daily Telegraph
- 15 November 2010
More than $9 billion of prized agricultural assets have been sold to offshore interests in the past two years alone.