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Agribusiness opportunities in South America
- IndusLatin
- 29 April 2010
Video of a speech by Dave Ramaswamy of Allied Venture about the opportunities for India to outsource its agriculture to Latin America.
Senator seeks investment from Qatar in Australia
- Gulf Times
- 29 April 2010
Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund agricultural company launched Hassad Australia last year, aimed at ensuring that livestock and grain needs for Qatar, from Australian farmland, are met.
Let's welcome Japanese investors
- Japan Times
- 29 April 2010
Recently, Kanayo Nwanze, head of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, told a news conference: "It is the wrong language to call them land grabs. They are investments in farmland--like investments in oil exploration."
Saudi looks to Australia for secure food supply
- The National
- 28 April 2010
Companies from the kingdom are meeting with representatives of the state of Western Australia to discuss buying equity in farms and investing in the wheat supply chain.
Middle East still keen to snap up foreign farmland
- Reuters
- 28 April 2010
Members of the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development , undeterred by low world wheat prices, plan a fresh wave of deals to lease farmland abroad,
Saudis eye farmland investment in Algeria: minister
- Reuters
- 28 April 2010
Saudi Arabian investors are looking at opportunities to buy into farmland in Algeria, says the Saudi Agriculture Minister.
Chinese farming investment on Abaco
- Bahama Pundit
- 28 April 2010
After trumpeting Chinese investment in "a very large agricultural project" in the Bahamas that would be up and running by September, senior government officials are now backing off the subject.
World Bank accused of promoting land grabbing
- FOE
- 28 April 2010
If the UN is serious about ending hunger then it must heed its own advice, stop the advance of agribusiness in Africa and implement food sovereignty immediately, says Friends of the Earth.
Food estate bisa rugikan petani di Tanah Air
- Bisnis Indonesia
- 28 April 2010
Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI) mengatakan program food estate di Merauke, Papua akan memberikan empat kerugian implikasi.
Dangerous initiative by the World Bank to control land grabbing
- Radio Mundo Real
- 28 April 2010
Nnimmo Bassey from Nigeria said that these principles legitimize a new form of colonialism with grave dangers for millions of local livelihoods and the environment.
Call for ending all forms of land grabbing
- IDN
- 28 April 2010
Friends of the Earth International warns that voluntary principles on land acquisitions announced by the World Bank and supported by the UN will legitimize and promote land grabbing in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
EU backs global code for farmland purchases - draft
- Reuters
- 27 April 2010
European Union governments want to develop a global code of conduct for foreign investments in agricultural land in developing countries, according to a draft paper on food security seen by Reuters.