Saudi Arabia announces the launch of Agroinvest, which will focus on farm acquisitions abroad to grow wheat, rice, soybeans and other crops in Brazil, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Pakistan and Turkey
The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) has launched a venture aiming to invest in food production worldwide focusing on the acquisition and development of existing agribusiness companies rather than the lease of large tracts of farmland.
An internal document recently posted on IRRI's website reveals that the Institute has been advising Saudi Arabia in the context of its strategy to acquire farm land overseas for its own food production.
South Africa is joining a “green rush” for the African continent. The Republic of the Congo has offered Agri SA 10-million hectares for South African farmers to produce maize and soya beans as well as to establish dairy and poultry farms.
Estados e inversores privados compiten por comprar superficies en África, Asia y Latinoamérica. Japón importa hoy el 60% de los alimentos que consume y los países del Golfo, entre el 70% y el 90%
Agricultural experts have called for a halt to moves by Gulf investors to snap up foreign land, amid claims that poor nations are losing much-needed farmland in a calculated land grab.
L'autorité de transition qui doit organiser les prochaines élections à Madagascar semble avoir reconduit les accords avec Daewoo
Bahrain and other Gulf countries' plan to buy agricultural land in Thailand to bolster their food supplies could be thwarted, it has emerged.
La CNOP et la Via Campesina s’inquiètent de la façon dont ce projet va détruire l’importante diversité de semences de riz locale, et favoriser un petit nombre de variétés de semences améliorées et de techniques modernes dans le domaine agricole, tel que souligné dans la convention.
« Les gouvernements ont leur stratégie face aux investisseurs », expliquent les chercheurs. Ils font en effet face à de fortes tensions sociales, économiques et politiques liées à l’emploi, à la sécurité alimentaire, aux agrocarburants, à la biodiversité.
It's certainly questionable whether the lease of agricultural land to foreign countries for the purposes of their own food supply is in the best interests of Pakistan, even if it brings in agricultural technology. What do the Arab farmers have that our agricultural universities don't?
In June 2009, the Indian company Karuturi took up intensive farming in Ethiopia. The harvest will be exported to Asia and Europe.
