“I got in on the ground floor, others got in on the second floor, but there’s a lot of floors left to go in Africa’s economic cycle,” says farmland investor Sai Karuturi.
- Bloomberg
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24 October 2010
A growing number of Chinese businessmen are looking at California vineyards for sale, to sell US wines to the booming China and Hong Kong markets.
- USA Today
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24 October 2010
China's IKO ltd intends to produce rice and cassava on over 10,000 ha of lands it has acquired in Cameroon.
China and other nations are making Laos an industrial farm, to the detriment of its ecology
- Asian Sentinel
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21 October 2010
Land is too important to be left to the whims of international commercial interests to overrun the land rights of the ordinary people of Zambia.
Groups consider land deal "treason", saying its aim is to steal Egyptian water and create a state inside the state.
- Daily News
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21 October 2010
There is a growing interest from buyers, a greater number of requests to visit potential acquisitions and the best farmland is specifically targeted.
- MercoPress
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21 October 2010
Olivier De Schutter presented his new report on access to land and the right to food at the 65th General Assembly of the United Nations.
“We should be supporting our own farmers and letting Africans cultivate their own land in their own way," says Slow Food President.
- Slow Food
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21 October 2010
FAO Committee to further study 'land grab' issue and launch "process of consideration" of the Principles for Responsible Ag Investments.
MMTC, Iffco and Bharti are the latest to find the continent’s land and labour attractive for their agribusiness.
New Zealand’s main opposition Labour Party will tighten restrictions on overseas purchases of the country’s assets if it is elected to government next year.
- Bloomberg
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18 October 2010