Hassad Food knows how to shop. The $1b subsidiary of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund finalised a $500m agreement last year to grow wheat & rice on 100,000 ha in Sudan and has announced plans to invest $700m worldwide this year.
Antoine Bouhey explique les méfaits de l’accaparement des terres par de grands investisseurs sur les populations locales. Un phénomène qui prend de l’ampleur, notamment en Afrique et en Amérique du Sud.
Algeria's government is considering applications from firms in Europe, the Gulf and Canada to launch the country's first commercial maize production, the head of the Algerian farmers' union said.
Por meio da Berkshire Hathaway, uma de suas gestoras de fundos, Buffett está negociando a criação de uma empresa voltada à aquisição de propriedades agrícolas no país, de acordo com informações do Relatório Reservado.
Para o cientista social e engenheiro agrônomo Horácio Martins de Carvalho, a medida do governo federal é salutar, mas insuficiente para garantir o controle do avanço do capital estrangeiro no território brasileiro.
Standard Bank Plc has affirmed its commitment to finance agriculture in Africa over a long term because Africa has vast stretch of arable lands. Additionally, the bank intends to improve food security and eliminate hunger in the world.
Company "currently assessing the quality of the land."
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is seeking a partnership with Brazilian billionaire Rubens Ometto and soybean grower Blairo Maggi to buy farmland in the South American country, Relatorio Reservado reported.
The number of investment projects in the agricultural sector in sub-Saharan Africa is at "unprecedented" levels, said Paul Runge of Africa Project Access at the ag investment conference in Durban
Galtere, a New York fund manager, said it was raising $1 billion to invest in production facilities for agricultural commodities -- including arable farmlands in countries such as Australia, Brazil and Uruguay -- that it planned to later sell or list publicly.
AgCapita's Stephen Johnston says Brazil's "sudden hostility to foreign farmland ownership" should make "developed markets such as Canada" more attractive to investors
45 new private equity funds are planning to invest US$2 billion in African agriculture in the next 3-5 years, according to participants at the Africainvestor Agribusiness Project Summit taking place in Durban
Brazil shocked foreign investors when President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he was concerned about Brazilian land falling into foreign hands.
No-one should be surprised when people start describing the Merauke Integrated Rice Estate as a clear case of genocide by the Indonesian government, because it has been well-planned and well-organised.
Saudi and UK investors will travel to the Philippines in October to discuss "the possibility of food production in southern Philippines, with the government providing them the needed land".
