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Envoy calls for agricultural investment in Pakistan
- Arab News
- 07 May 2010
Pakistan’s ambassador to the Kingdom has called on Saudis to invest in his country’s agricultural sector.
Zenawi "very comfortable" with farmland grabs by foreign investors in Ethiopia
- World Economic Forum
- 06 May 2010
Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi talks about the leasing of large areas of Ethiopian farmland to foreign investors during a panel on African agriculture at the World Economic Forum
Sierra Leone: Protecting investors, but what about the people?
- Pambazuka
- 06 May 2010
When will governments recognise the immense potential of their own farmers and their sustainable, diverse family farming systems, that are so desperately in need of genuine 'responsible' agricultural investment to assure food and seed sovereignty, asks Joan Baxter
Tanzania: Nation mulls ambitious farming projects
- Tanzania Daily News
- 06 May 2010
Tanzania's President says his government has decided to work with the private sector in large scale farming and the Tazara corridor is the starting point.
Macquarie Agricultural Fund to own Brazil Soybean, grain farm
- Bloomberg
- 06 May 2010
Macquarie Group Ltd. plans to own and run 500,000 acres of soybean and grain farms in Brazil over the next three years
Gaiacor International enters joint venture negotiations for land reclamation in Argentina
- Market Wire
- 06 May 2010
Gaiacor International, together with its strategic partner MITC Investments, Ltd., has commenced negotiations with Agro North with the intent of forming a joint venture to acquire and reclaim agricultural land in Argentina.
From bleeding Africa to grabbing the land
- The Citizen
- 06 May 2010
The long-term danger I foresee, in the worst case scenario, is that the debt spiral will eventually converge with the land grabs.
ANI forges food deal with Saudi firm
- Manila Bulletin
- 05 May 2010
AgriNurture Inc has signed the enclosed MoA with Far Eastern Agricultural Investment Company of Saudi Arabia for food crop plantations and processing plants in the Philippines.
The World Bank in the hot seat
- GRAIN
- 04 May 2010
The World Bank is marching ahead with plans to facilitate global land grabs, while not releasing a report that confirms the negative impacts of these deals for local communities.
Investment bankers with wings: Making a killing
- Huffington Post
- 04 May 2010
Unfortunately, the US Senate inquiry into Goldman Sach's alleged malfeasance is unlikely to question why the company in 2008 decided to acquire ten intensive poultry farms in China's Hunan and Fujian provinces for $300 million.
Africa: What will continent export if it leases farmland to Arabs?
- Business Daily
- 04 May 2010
"Investors like Citadel Capital and Goldman Sachs must be stopped from acquiring large tracts of land in Africa because this practice has become a serious threat to the continent's food sovereignty"
Pinstripes, pitchforks and profits
- Reuters
- 04 May 2010
"In the age of derivatives and evaporating valuations, farmland is gold with a cash flow."