• Almarai mulls Egyptian acquisitions
    • Reuters
    • 12 July 2009

    Almarai Company, Saudi Arabia's biggest listed dairy firm, is studying more acquisition opportunities in Egypt after spending $115 million last month to buy an Egyptian company and its farmland

  • Rich states shouldn't grab 3rd World's farmland
    • Yomiuri Shimbun
    • 12 July 2009

    Rather than participating in the race for farmland overseas, Japan should concentrate on raising its food self-sufficiency rate, which is now at about 40 percent.

  • Saudi firm to invest $3 bln in Turkey farms
    • Reuters
    • 10 July 2009

    Private Saudi firm Planet Food World (PFWC) will invest around $3 billion in agriculture in Turkey over the next five years to export food products to the Gulf region, the head of its Turkish unit said.

  • Kuwait joins Gulf investors seeking taste of Asia
    • Financial Times
    • 10 July 2009

    A state-affiliated Kuwaiti company is set to join a growing list of entities from the oil-rich Gulf looking at investments in Asian agricultural land.

  • Uruguayan farmland selling prices down 20 to 30%
    • MercoPress
    • 10 July 2009

    Most of the recent farmland sales in Uruguy can be traced to money looking for safe havens, given the world financial crisis, and not necessarily increasing production.

  • Japan government mulling providing $3bln-$4bln for food security
    • Dow Jones
    • 10 July 2009

    Tokyo is now preparing to expand Official development assistance to support agricultural technology innovations and improve social infrastructure in such areas, which in turn could help activate private agricultural investment

  • Senegal confident of Obama help for African farms
    • Reuters
    • 10 July 2009

    Abdulaye Wade says there is nothing wrong with leasing land: Saudi Arabia is already in Senegal and China is close to a deal with farmers' groups to use 100,000 ha for growing peanuts.

  • Benin farmers pressured to sell their land
    • France 24
    • 10 July 2009

    In Benin, the race to buy land is on! States, corporations, multinationals and investment funds are hungry for farmland.

  • Le G8 espère réguler la ruée sur les terres arables du Sud
    • AFP
    • 10 July 2009

    Le G8 entend mettre un peu d'ordre et de principes dans la ruée mondiale sur les terres arables des pays du sud, à défaut de pouvoir s'immiscer dans les transactions qui privent les populations des terres dont elles dépendent.

  • El G-8 busca regular las compras de tierras de labor en los países del Sur
    • AFP
    • 10 July 2009

    El G-8 espera regular con algún tipo de normas las grandes compras de tierras de labranza en países en desarrollo, que ya provocaron la transferencia de propiedad de 15 a 20 millones de hectáreas en detrimento de los agricultores y del abastecimiento de los mercados locales.

  • L'agrobusiness met sous pression les propriétaires terriens
    • France 24
    • 10 July 2009

    Le Bénin, l'un des rares pays à avoir échappé aux émeutes de la faim en 2008, subit aujourd'hui les méfaits de l'agrobusiness. La pression foncière y est particulièrement forte, notamment pour les paysans béninois, obligés de vendre.

  • Perú: Pequeños agricultores podrían desaparecer
    • La Primera
    • 10 July 2009

    En los últimos años la agricultura viene pasando por una etapa de transición que, según el analista Reynaldo Trinidad, viene siendo perjudicial para los pequeños agricultores y favorece directamente a las grandes corporaciones, en lo que sería una “nueva reforma”, que podría poner en peligro la seguridad alimentaria del país.

  • Land grab Cambodia
    • BBC
    • 09 July 2009

    Cambodia is experiencing what's been called an epidemic of land grabbing. Huge tracts of the country have been granted to private companies for large scale agriculture or other purposes.

  • Propriété et possession: la terre en Afrique
    • Mediapart
    • 09 July 2009

    Que la re-africanisation de l'agriculture africaine soit menée par les entreprises étrangères ne me dérange pas

  • G8 backs farmland code of conduct, details sketchy
    • Reuters
    • 09 July 2009

    "We don't know enough yet in practice to formulate a very strong code of conduct," David Hallam, of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, told Reuters.

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