Given the limited scope for farmland expansion within India, policy makers need to evaluate the option of cross border farmland cultivation, says the director of YES Bank
The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation member states call for "responsible" agricultural investment as rising acquisition of farmland in developing countries by other nations is causing friction with local people.
The big asset manager is bullish on farmland, citing 10% returns.
The UN Committee on Food Security has failed to endorse a code of conduct on foreign land investments, in a blow to efforts to draft international guidelines to regulate so-called "land grabs".
When deals are struck, activists complain that large tracts of land can be sold from under communities, with protocol ignored and promises broken.
Convenio que el Gobernador Miguel Saiz (UCR) firmara con el Estado de la República China para la entrega de 254.500 hectáreas de la Provincia de Río Negro
Official documents from the 36th session of the FAO Committee on World Food Security (Rome 11-16 October 2010) concerning their discussion of landgrabbing
The Egyptian external agricultural land deals are all the more fragile as a future government or policy change in Ethiopia or Sudan risks destabilizing their external food security strategy.
Ramesh Krishnaswamy of Karuturi Global in an exclusive interview with CNBC-TV18
Presentation on farmland investment funds in East Europe and Central Asia
India and Mauritius have resumed discussions over a proposal to hand over the twin islands of Agalega to India for tourism development and possibly agriculture.
Australians are in danger of becoming servants, not masters, of their own food resources.
