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Harvard University to buy Otago farmland
- Radio New Zealand
- 07 October 2010
New Zealand's Federated Farmers is welcoming the purchase of a big slice of farmland in central Otago by Harvard University for $34.1 million.
Overseas buyers a blessing to struggling farms
- NZ Herald
- 07 October 2010
Richard Fyers, a commercial lawyer with the NZ China Trade Association, writes about the fuss made over land sales to foreigners.
2nd Global Large Scale Farm Forum in Siem Reap, Cambodia
- PR Web
- 06 October 2010
The key highlights of the forum will focus on the rising prospects in the global agricultural business, land utilisation and acquisition policies.
Ethiopian case study illustrates shortcomings of “land grab” debate
- The New Security Beat
- 06 October 2010
The two months we spent in the Amhara and Oromia regions of Ethiopia, surveying smallholders and profiling large-scale commercial farms, left us with a different impression.
Papua in Merauke reject Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate
- Indigenous Peoples Issues
- 06 October 2010
We support the position adopted by the Ha Nim indigenous people and their sympathisers who reject the MIFEE project on their land because it poses a threat to the right to life of the local communities and urge the Indonesian state – SBY – to repeal the MoU about MIFEE.
Join Spires campaign against Land Grabbing!
- Spire
- 06 October 2010
Please support our demands that the Norwegian Government stops import of commodities from grabbed land, takes initiativ to international cooperation to control investment deals in the agricultural sector, and make sure that Norwegian investments never happens at the expence of peoples food security or participation.
US investors plough cash into farmland
- BBC
- 05 October 2010
Investment managers in the US report rising interest from pension schemes and retail investors in funds that buy and run farmland in developed countries.
Saudis to invest $500 million in Brazil agriculture
- QNA
- 05 October 2010
Representatives of Saudi group Agro invest, a public-private agricultural investment company, are now in Brazil seeking partnerships for producing and exporting grain and poultry.
La Via Campesina demands FAO to support the real solutions to the food crisis
- Via Campesina
- 04 October 2010
Farmers from La Via Campesina will be at meeting of the FAO Committee on World Food Security next week to demand concrete measures to tackle the problem of land-grabbing.
Down on the farm
- BBC
- 04 October 2010
The rights and wrongs of global agricultural investment examined on Business Daily of the BBC
TIAA acquires controlling interest in Westchester Group, Inc.
- TIAA-CREF
- 04 October 2010
TIAA is among the largest institutional investors in agriculture, with investments in more than 400 farms in North America, South America, Australia, and Eastern Europe as part of its General Account.
African delegation encourages Turkey to lease farmland on continent
- Hurriyet
- 04 October 2010
Fallow land in Africa presents a fantastic opportunity for Turkish businesspeople involved in agriculture, a Ugandan member of a cotton delegation visiting western Turkey said Monday.