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Laos floats joint Thai-Kuwait rice investment proposal
- Bangkok Post
- 16 August 2009
Kuwait has recently shown an interest in doing rice business in Laos, but Vientiane wants Thailand to be its partner,
Le Maurice s'apprête à acheter des terres agricoles de première qualité au Mozambique
- Reuters
- 15 August 2009
Le Maurice prendra possession du bail de 20 000 ha de terres mozambicaines avant de les sous-louer à des investisseurs.
Mauritius eyes prime Mozambican farmland
- Reuters
- 15 August 2009
Mauritius plans to buy 20,000 hectares (49,420 acres) of prime farmland in Mozambique to alleviate mounting worries about food security on the import-dependent island.
New rice project launched in Maputo
- Agencia de Informção de Moçambique
- 14 August 2009
Libya Africa Investment Portfolio and the Mozambican company Ubuntu SA are launching a $30 million rice project that will cover 20,000 ha near to Bela Vista, capital of Mozambique's southernmost district of Matutuine.
World Bank hails investment in Ugandan farming
- Reuters
- 14 August 2009
A group of Saudi-based investors announced earlier this monthy a seven-year plan to develop and plant 700,000 hectares to produce 7 million tonnes of rice in countries like Uganda.
China slow to invest in expensive LatAm farmland
- Reuters
- 14 August 2009
Resource-hungry China has so far passed over investing in high-priced farmlands of South America in favor of Africa, with its less developed commodities markets, greater need for financing and open labor laws.
Sugar Cane Invades the Brazilian Central Plateau
- Grassroots International
- 14 August 2009
Suicide is becoming a common reality in Barreirinhas, as families are talked into “renting” their land to the sugar cane companies.
Hunger-ridden Ethiopia defends land grabs
- Business Daily
- 14 August 2009
Ethiopia is on the defensive over a plan to offer 2.7 million hectares of land to foreign, mainly Asian, companies despite millions crying out for food aid from the international community.
Abu Dhabi firm grows in Egypt
- The National
- 13 August 2009
A private agricultural investment firm in Abu Dhabi plans a Dh925 million (US$251.8m) farmland deal in Egypt to grow wheat for the African nation’s domestic market.
Ukraine's most undervalued resource, rich black soil, becomes focus of growing battle over land
- Kyiv Post
- 13 August 2009
If the moratorium on agricultural land sale is lifted, rich multinational corporations will buy and it will be legislatively impossible to strip them of lands that could be used for feeding Ukrainians.
Foreign states in race to take up Ethiopia’s farmland
- Daily Nation
- 13 August 2009
Ethiopian government has defended its plan to offer 2.7 million hectares of farmland to foreign companies despite millions of citizens who need food aid from the international community.
International agricultural land deals award Ethiopian virgin lands to foreign companies
- Abugida Info
- 13 August 2009
The terms of farmland deals are hardly made public. Although a theoretical possibility exists in a few cases for some transfer of technology for agricultural development, risk also exists to peasant farmers who cannot compete with well-resourced commercial farms. Take, for instance, the case of barley and oilseeds producers in Ethiopia.