African agriculture entices funds

• Sake24.com
• 04 February 2010

At least three or four private equity funds are currently raising capital with a mandate to invest in agricultural enterprises in Africa.

Papua food estate faces land-use tangles: Kadin

• Jakarta Globe
• 04 February 2010

Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry warns that the government’s plan to develop a major food estate in Merauke, Papua, may run into difficulties because confusing and overlapping land use regulations will deter investors.

Cambodia: US$310 Million for Irrigation to Boost Rice Exports

• dap-news.com
• 04 February 2010

The high potential in rice investment has intrigued not only China, which is Cambodia's biggest donor, but other donors as well, such as Kuwait, Korea and Japan—given the country’s agricultural sector is the nation’s backbone economy.

Ethiopia: Land grabbing and the emergence of ‘cereal republics’

• FoodFirst
• 04 February 2010

Ethiopia must harness its enormous agricultural potential, not by selling it off as a cheap commodity, but by supporting farmers in growing culturally appropriate crops for domestic markets, using agro-ecologically sustainable farming methods.

Wikileaks: Investing in food security: Experts address Responsible Agricultural Investment at global Donor Platform meeting

• Wikileaks
• 04 February 2010

US government cable discusses 24 January 2010 meeting organised by Swiss Development Corporation, UN Food and Agriculture Organization and International Fund for Agricultural Investment on "Land, Investment, and Development," attended by many of the key players working on responsible international agro-industrial and land investment principles

China's global hunt for food security

• Vancouver Sun
• 03 February 2010

Many see the desire for Kazakhstani agricultural land as another tentacle of Beijing's creeping imperialism

SBY hails ‘success’ of first 100 days, with just 2 programs falling short

• Jakarta Globe
• 03 February 2010

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to inaugurate the food estate on Feb. 12-13.

Ukraine's law extending farmland sale moratorium enters into force

• ITAR-TASS
• 03 February 2010

A law that extends the moratorium on the sale of the farmland until 2012 has entered into force in Ukraine.

farmlandgrab-mail

• CSR Asia
• 03 February 2010

The land investment story - fear of unchecked land grabs

• CSR Asia
• 03 February 2010

The Indonesian government is wise to learn from the South Korea Daewoo-Madagascar deal, which demonstrated the enormous economic, social and political risks associated with foreign ownership of land and water rights.

Pakistan identifies 80 projects for FoDP investors

• Daily Times
• 03 February 2010

Foreign Office spokesman says Pakistan has 8.25m hectares of land that can be cultivated to cater to global food demand

SBY government’s food policy: Is there hope from food estates?

• Jakarta Post
• 03 February 2010

There are many controversies regarding the expected positive and negative impacts of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's “food estate” program to be launched in Indonesia in February