• Global commodity boom driving farmland bids
    • Dominion Post
    • 03 October 2011

    Sir Michael Fay, his mainly Maori colleagues, and the rival Chinese bidders for the Crafar dairy farms, have one thing in common. In a world where global investors are all looking for safe havens for their money, they see New Zealand farmland as good buying.

  • Rogers joins board of farmland investment group
    • Investment Week
    • 03 October 2011

    Commodities investor Jim Rogers has been appointed to the board of the farmland investment firm Genagro Ltd

  • Sun Biofuels jatropha project in Kisarawe suspended
    • Tanzania Daily News
    • 03 October 2011

    The EU lured many multinational energy companies such as SBF to invest in renewable energies in developing countries such Tanzania where almost all projects are on the verge of collapse or shut down.

  • « Les usagers vulnérables des terres doivent être protégés par des directrices internationales »
    • SRFood
    • 03 October 2011

    « Sans consensus international, d’autres instruments chercheront à combler les lacunes, comme ceux déjà mis au point unilatéralement par des fonds d’investissement privés,» a averti Olivier De Schutter.

  • El incalculable valor de la tierra
    • Palabre-ando
    • 02 October 2011

    Ya se ha sustraído al campesinado una extensión similar a las tierras agrícolas del Reino Unido –45 millones de hectáreas– bajo el sistema de acaparamiento de tierras que, según mienten sus defensores, «o bien se compran tierras inutilizadas o bien las nuevas inversiones generarán riqueza al país»

  • What Drives the Global “Land Rush”?
    • World Bank
    • 01 October 2011

    This World Bank Policy Research Working Paper explores determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture.

  • Argentina: La Ley de Tierras no interesa al Congreso
    • El Argentino
    • 01 October 2011

    Lamentablemente, el Congreso de la Nación no ha manifestado gran interés por el momento para debatir y analizar una Ley de Tierras.

  • La tenencia y el despojo de las tierras. Primer tema de debate en el Congreso de Cali
    • Notiagen
    • 01 October 2011

    El Congreso Nacional de Tierras, Territorios y Soberanías se propuso sacar a las multinacionales y transnacionales que han ayudado a empobrecer el campo y combatir el Plan Nacional de Desarrollo del actual gobierno

  • Tilling new ground on Africa’s Gold Coast
    • Corn&Soybean Digest
    • 01 October 2011

    With investors from the Middle East and the U.S., Africa Atlantic Farms is pursuing mechanised farming on 10,000 hectares it has leased in Ghana in the Afram Plains region, with plans to expand.

  • Investissements agricoles en Afrique
    • Afrique contemporaine
    • 01 October 2011

    Dossier de la revue "Afrique contemporaine", Nº 237, 2011/1

  • Festival por la Soberanía Alimentaria
    • RocaDigital
    • 30 September 2011

    La consigna del festival tiene que ver con rechazar el acuerdo agroalimentario firmado con China por el actual gobernador Miguel Saiz, en el cual se le entregarán a la empresa Heilongjiang Beidahuang 320.000 hectáreas de tierras.

  • Preventing foreign land grabs in Colombia
    • Colombia Reports
    • 30 September 2011

    It is very important that the Colombian government takes actions to sustainably develop Colombia’s agricultural sector, without endangering its sovereign control over this sector.

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