The company, which changed its name from Alpcot Agro, is considering selling its farms in Ukraine.
The clearing of forests inhabited by indigenous people in Indonesia's Papua Region by agribusinesses is fuelling conflict in the southern Merauke Regency.
Wealthy investors can diversify beyond stocks and bonds by owning cornfields. John Taylor of U.S. Trust says farmland produces capital gains as well as income.
- Wall Street Journal
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28 Mar 2014
The Russian Direct Investment Fund said it was leading a consortium buying a $200M stake in Sodrugestvo, a Luxembourg-based crop producer operating in Russia, several ex-Soviet states, Brazil and Northern Europe.
- Wall Street Journal
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28 Mar 2014
As witnessed many times before, Ukraine is once again at a flashpoint for foreign powers to divvy up the “Breadbasket of Europe.”
Due to the high cost of land back home, lack of credit, and a paralyzing bureaucracy, Italian farmers are moving from Italy to Romania where it is easier to start a farm.
Should foreign investment in Australian agricultural land and infrastructure be strictly limited? An Intelligence Squared debate presented by the St James Ethics Centre at Sydney's City Recital Hall.
Trade deal with South Korea cuts the value of Australian farmland purchases that attract scrutiny from the Foreign Investment Review Board from $53 million to $15m.
- The Australian
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27 Mar 2014
Studies raise serious concern about a process of land conversion that favours a small, but growing middle and upper class of Africans who are starting their farming ‘careers’ with relatively large land holdings.
The World Bank is discussing ways to counter land grabbing but critics have charged the organization with participating in land grabbing itself.
Investment bank Macquarie Group is buying two farms in Australia's "wheatbelt" bringing its total holdings in Western Australia to 45,000 ha.
- Central Advocate
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27 Mar 2014
Des villageois ont fait reculer de puissantes multinationales, et cela se passe au Liberia.
Des personnalités politiques européennes et américaines unissent leurs voix à l’inquiétude internationale concernant le barrage de Gibe III et les plantations irriguées qui lui sont associées.
- Survival France
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27 Mar 2014
Au Paraguay, le documentariste Daniele Incalcaterra hérite de son père de terres achetées trente ans plus tôt sous la dictature de Stroessner. Souhaitant rompre avec cette logique de dépossession de la terre des Paraguayens par les investisseurs étrangers, il décide de se rendre sur place pour rendre les terres aux Indiens Guarani-Ñandeva.
Le coordonnateur du Mouvement Y En A Marre fait le bilan des deux ans de pouvoir de Macky Sall et dénonce la poursuite du projet Sen-huile Sen-éthanol.