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Brasil recusa proposta do Irã de compra de terras
- Reuters
- 23 November 2009
O Brasil recusou uma proposta feita pelo Irã de compra ou arrendamento de áreas agrícolas brasileiras, com vistas à produção de alimentos e sua venda direta ao país islâmico
Extraterritoriality - Foreign Concessions: the Past and Future of a Form of Shared Sovereignty
- EspacesTemps.net
- 23 November 2009
China has now taken on a leading role in promoting modernization through zones of exception, not only in China but also outside it.
Pharos $350m argriculture fund targets Middle East investors
- Emerging Markets
- 23 November 2009
The Pharos Miro Agricultural fund, with a minimum subscription of $6m, is being offered to family offices, private equity groups and other investors across the Middle East.
For Sale signs nailed to our Aussie icons
- The Telegraph
- 23 November 2009
Foreign companies are covertly buying up adjacent farms in Australia to use as a "salad bowl" in the case of global food shortages.
The ultimate crop rotation
- Washington Post
- 23 November 2009
Lured by a new business model, wealthy nations flock to farmland in Ethiopia, locking in food supplies grown half a world away
Ethiopia: land of tomorrow
- YouTube
- 21 November 2009
Documentary highlighting the investment opportunities in Ethiopia, produced for the Saudi-East African Forum.
IFC lends a hand in great "land grab"
- Bretton Woods Project
- 20 November 2009
As the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank, announces plans to increase investment in agribusiness by up to 30 per cent in the next three years, NGO reports shed light on the IFC's role in the 'land grab' movement and flaws in its approach to the food crisis.
Is there such a thing as agro-imperialism?
- New York Times
- 19 November 2009
There’s a whole school of economic thought that says that Collier is wrong, that big is not necessarily better in agriculture — and that the land deals therefore might be unwise not because they’re wrong but because they’re unprofitable.
UAE company leases farmland in Morocco
- Gulf Times
- 19 November 2009
An Abu Dhabi-based private sector investment firm has signed a contract to lease up to 700,000 hectares of farmland in Morocco, a company executive said yesterday.
Zimbabwe farmers a boon for Nigerian agriculture
- Reuters
- 19 November 2009
Farmers from South Korea, Kuwait and the United States have also arrived in Kwara state, some 400 km northwest of Lagos, which is keen to attract more investors and help Nigeria end its import reliance.
If words were food, nobody would go hungry
- The Economist
- 19 November 2009
Investment in agriculture is soaring. So, worryingly, is distrust of markets and trade.
Fome: multinacionais são acusadas de controlar terras ricas do Terceiro Mundo
- Correio Braziliense
- 19 November 2009
Segundo as ONGs "Grain" e La Via Campesina, "alguns governos, como o da Arábia Saudita e Coreia do Sul pressionam essa forma de agir, como estratégia comercial.
ONGs denuncian compra masiva de tierras en la FAO
- El Espectador
- 19 November 2009
Unos 400 delegados provenientes de 70 países de América Latina y África, que participan en la cumbre paralela organizada frente a la FAO y autorizada por la entidad de Naciones Unidas, protestan desde el lunes en denuncia por "la compra masiva de tierras" por parte de grandes firmas agro-alimentarias con la complicidad de la FAO.
Investing, not grabbing
- Globe and Mail
- 19 November 2009
International farmland-investment standards of the kind being worked upon are much needed. But agricultural agencies such as the FAO are not equipped to establish good property-rights regimes in the developing world, writes the Globe and Mail
Riz Khan: Africa investment or land grab?
- Al Jazeera
- 19 November 2009
More and more of Africa's farmland is being bought up by private companies and countries. But should this trend be welcomed as much-needed foreign investment or is it a new form of colonialism? Join the Riz Khan show on Al Jazeera Thursday 19 November 2009.