• Swiss Commodities Trader Expands Into Ethanol in Africa
    • New York Times
    • 15 June 2011

    Jean Claude Gandur’s ethanol project in Sierra Leone comes at a sensitive time, with concerns being raised of exploitation of developing countries for resources.

  • Investments that will grow
    • The Australian
    • 15 June 2011

    The global financial crisis may have hit tax-effective agribusiness schemes hard, but the prospects of the small group of companies that survived are anything but gloomy. "We're actually tapping into the new GFC, which is the global food crisis," says Wayne Overall, executive director of agribusiness managed investment scheme operator Almond Investors Limited

  • La riziculture pourrait connaitre un boom en Afrique
    • AFP
    • 14 June 2011

    "Il se pourrait que d'ici 25 ans l'Inde ou la Chine tirent des ressources significatives de leurs implantations en Afrique subsaharienne", prévoit Robert Zeigler, directeur général de l'Institut international de recherche sur le riz (IRRI).

  • Iowan Rastetter leads Tanzanian ag project
    • Des Moines Register
    • 14 June 2011

    Iowa agribusiness investor Bruce Rastetter is leading a project to turn as much as 800,000 acres [324,000 hectares] of land in the east African country of Tanzania into a massive grain-and-livestock operation.

  • Djigo Moussa, à propos de la mise a disposition de terres au profit d’investisseurs saoudiens : « C’est la mort programmée de l’élevage local… »
    • Quotidien de Nouakchott
    • 14 June 2011

    Entretien avec Djigo Moussa, président du comité de suivi des affaires foncières, une structure mise en place par les représentants de 60 villages de la Moughata’a de Boghé pour produire un document par lequel, les populations feront valoir leurs droits sur les terres du Brakna mises à disposition d’investisseurs saoudiens par les autorités mauritaniennes.

  • Stop demonising foreign investors in agriculture, they’re not grabbing land
    • Daily Nation
    • 14 June 2011

    It is true that many of the land deals are not structured to benefit local communities but it is wrong to claim that such investments will only help promote food exports at the expense of local needs, says Calestous Juma.

  • Swedes want Aussie farms
    • Stock & Land
    • 14 June 2011

    The Swedish National Pension Fund is teaming up with US institutional investor TIAA-CREF to buy farmland in Australia.

  • Presentaciones foro "Dinámica mundial de acaparamiento de tierras: La extranjerización de la propiedad”
    • Grupo Semillas
    • 14 June 2011

    El 9 y 10 de junio pasados, se llevó a cabo en las ciudades de Bogotá y Cali, el foro Dinámica mundial de acaparamiento de tierras: La extranjerización de la propiedad, con la participación de expertos nacionales e internacionales.

  • Les nouvelles guerres de la faim
    • Slate
    • 13 June 2011

    A ce jour, la ruée vers les terres agricoles a davantage contribué à fomenter des troubles qu’à augmenter les stocks de nourriture, selon Lester Brown.

  • Merauke estate ‘may threaten’ local stocks, livelihoods
    • Jakarta Post
    • 13 June 2011

    Indonesia's food estate policy that has encouraged foreign investment in agriculture may not prevent potential food crises, activists say.

  • Argentina: La Soberanía en jaque
    • Agencia Periodística del Mercosur
    • 13 June 2011

    ¿Un enclave chino en territorio argentino?Un convenio de inversión agroalimentario entre la provincia argentina de Río Negro y una empresa china genera fuertes cuestionamientos. La Facultad de Periodismo y Comunicación Social de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata se suma al debate.

  • Hedge funds & African farms
    • CBC
    • 13 June 2011

    The mad scramble for Africa. Critics say the financial firms that helped cause the global recession by inflating the real estate bubble -- are back. And this time they're being accused of pulling the same tricks with the world's food supply.

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