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Unlocking Sub-Saharan Africa’s agricultural potential
- World Bank
- 04 June 2010
World Bank's MIGA provides political risk insurance for Chayton Capital's $50 million farmland investments in southern Africa.
“Food estates” in West Papua raise fears of systematic marginalization
- WPAT
- 04 June 2010
These planned food estates will deprive Papuans of their traditional resources for hunting and fishing and destroy the very basis of their livelihoods.
Land investments are wholesale sell-outs for women farmers
- Pambazuka
- 03 June 2010
With the emerging land investments a new set of challenges emerges for the woman farmer.
Russia fights for world dominance—in wheat
- Bloomberg
- 03 June 2010
By 2008 global grain prices were reaching record levels, and Swedish, British, Chinese, and Korean investors were piling into Russian farmland.
Abu Dhabi looks to Sudan to secure food supply
- Financial Times
- 03 June 2010
Abu Dhabi is preparing to launch a large-scale agricultural project in Sudan to develop more than 70,000 acres of land as part of the oil-rich Gulf emirate's efforts to secure food supplies.
Greens claim conflict of interest in Crafar sale
- NZ Herald
- 03 June 2010
A lawyer advising the NZ Government how to make it easier to sell assets overseas is working for the Chinese company wanting to buy the Crafar farms, the Green Party says.
Qatar: Hassad to meet half of wheat requirement
- Zawya
- 02 June 2010
Hassad Food says it would soon begin meeting at least 50 percent of Qatar's wheat requirements and later 20 percent of its poultry needs.
France sets up $120 million Africa agriculture fund
- Reuters
- 02 June 2010
France has announced the establishment of an investor fund destined to support the development of farming projects in Africa and the distribution of food stuffs
African nations turn to South Africa for agricultural expertise
- Bloomberg
- 02 June 2010
African nations are increasingly turning to South Africa to improve their own agricultural production and skills, according to industry group Agri SA.
Agricultural investments on a hot run in Brazil
- investinbrazil.biz
- 01 June 2010
Brazilian farm companies are in a race of investments with every major company making new acquisitions and major capital investments.
Hassad Food plans to invest $700mn in global projects
- Gulf Times
- 01 June 2010
Hassad Food Company intends to invest $500mn to $700mn this year for projects across the world as part of its mission to ensure food security for Qatar, chairman and managing director Nasser bin Mohamed Mubarak al-Fuhaid al-Hajri has said.
Funds: Nothing ventured, nothing gained in Bulgaria
- BNE
- 01 June 2010
Karoll Capital Management, the country's largest landlord after the government, sees continuing prospects for farmland investment in Bulgaria