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British combing for cotton
- The Land
- 05 December 2011
UK-based investors are planning a $400 million rural land fund to buy cotton and wheat properties in eastern Australia.
Ramakrishna Karuturi: Man behind Karuturi Global - world's largest producer of cut roses
- Economic Times
- 04 December 2011
“We have finalised deals with four big agro companies in India for joint ventures for different crops that we are looking at growing – rice, maize, oil palm and sugarcane,” says Karuturi.
Rivo Andrianirina, directeur de l’Observatoire du foncier
- RFI
- 04 December 2011
A Madagascar, la question de la terre est très importante, sacrée même. Etat des lieux avec Rivo Andrianirina, directeur de l’Observatoire du foncier.
Project pensioenfonds ABP in Mozambique mondt uit in landroof
- De Volkskrant
- 03 December 2011
De investeringen van pensioenfonds ABP in Mozambique hebben de afgelopen jaren bijgedragen aan het afpakken van boerenland en het bedreigen van de voedselzekerheid van de lokale bevolking.
UAE to cultivate agri goods in Pakistan
- Daily Times
- 03 December 2011
United Arab Emirates is interested to cultivate agricultural goods in Pakistan and is also ready to make small dams for irrigation on the condition agricultural goods from Pakistan should not be stopped exporting to UAE.
Africa's farmland in demand: 'Is there a better place than this?'
- Toronto Star
- 03 December 2011
The 19th century had the Great Scramble for Africa, when developed nations raced for several decades to lay claim to new territories and their riches. This century may yet be known as the Great Selloff of Africa.
Huge interest in US and farmland investment
- Ag Professional
- 02 December 2011
"There's a lot of money chasing the grow-out of agricultural land right now," says Gary Thien of Thien Farm Management.
Olam to set up US$49m rice farming and milling facility in Nigeria
- Business Times
- 02 December 2011
The 6,000 hectare farm in Nasarawa, one of Nigeria's main rice growing belts, is expected to yield 36,000 tonnes of milled rice annually at its peak.
Nyéléni, Mali : A global alliance against land grabbing
- FIAN
- 02 December 2011
Report from FIAN on the international conference against land grabbing which took place in Mali in November 2011
Un land grab chinois en Afrique sub-saharienne ?
- Outre Terre
- 02 December 2011
Dans le cas de la Chine, il semble qu’il faille faire remonter le land grab à 1995, avec l’implantation de la Zhongkan Farm en Zambie, selon Laurent Hou.
Inversiones agrícolas responsables: racionalización del acaparamiento de tierras
- ALAI
- 01 December 2011
Los movimientos sociales que representan a los campesinos, los pequeños agricultores y los trabajadores agrícolas no coinciden en que la racionalización de las inversiones a gran escala sea la respuesta al problema global del acaparamiento de tierras.
Agriterra joins $6bn rush into West Africa palm
- Agrimoney
- 01 December 2011
Agriterra added to the $6bn investment wave heading into West Africa palm oil by acquiring 45,000 hectares of plantation land in Sierra Leone.