Report examines the driving factors behind foreign investment in Australian agriculture and describes processes by which foreign investment in farmland is monitored and regulated in Australia and other selected countries.
Tajikistan says it will allow Chinese farmers to rent 200ha of southern Tajik farmland.
- Central Asia Online
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18 January 2012
The Company has been established to provide investors with a liquid investment in primarily Canadian farmland and will seek to assemble a farmland portfolio which is diversified as to geography, crop type and farmer.
- Bonnefield
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18 January 2012
BBC radio investigates report by Human Rights Watch that claims Britain is indirectly funding a brutally enforced resettlement programme in Ethiopia.
The Ethiopian government has denied forcibly relocating tens of thousands of people off their land to make way for foreign investors.
Chinese company presidents met with Australian officials and company reps in Sydney to discuss ag investments, ranging from a $25 million, 20,000 ha cotton farm to a $350 million farmland purchase in Western Australia and Queensland.
- Stock & Land
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17 January 2012
Le gouvernement éthiopien contraint actuellement par la force plusieurs dizaines de milliers de personnes à quitter leurs terres pour mettre ces dernières à la disposition d'investisseurs fonciers étrangers, provoquant une crise humanitaire au sein des populations déplacées, rapporte, mardi 17 janvier, Human Rights Watch (HRW).
Many of the areas from which people are being moved are slated for leasing by the Ethiopian government for commercial agricultural development, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch.
Des informations sur une relance des négociations sur l'acquisition de terrain par Daewoo ont circulé. L'État malgache a formellement démenti.
- Express de Madagascar
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16 January 2012
A large rally of 7,000 people demanding agrarian reform and people’s rights shook Jakarta and 27 other provinces all across Indonesia on January 12.
- La Via Campesina
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16 January 2012
About 8000 square kilometres of farmland around the world are now in Chinese hands, Chinese current affairs magazine Phoenix Weekly reports.
- Sydney Morning Herald
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16 January 2012
Au XVIIIe siècle, la Grande Catherine avait décidé de faire appel à des agriculteurs allemands pour cultiver le sol de la Russie. A un moment, on a dénombré plusieurs milliers de colons. Quelque 250 ans après, l'histoire se répète.
- Les Echos
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16 January 2012
