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Mamadou Sangafowa Coulibaly : "La Côte d'Ivoire n'exploite que 42% de ses terres arables"
- Jeune Afrique
- 04 January 2013
Les groupes Louis Dreyfus, Mimran, Nobel, Cevital, Sifca et Olam sont tous intéressés par la production de riz en Côte d’Ivoire.
Soros-backed Adecoagro takes land gains to $132m
- Agrimoney
- 04 January 2013
Adecoagro realised more of the substantial gains within its 283,000-hectare landbank by selling one of its Argentine farms in a deal valuing it at 11 times the purchase price a decade ago.
Guidelines for land allocation to investors
- Mpakasi
- 03 January 2013
In 2012, PM Mizengo Pinda announced that from January 2013, Tanzania will start restricting the size of land that single large-scale foreign and local investors can “lease” for agricultural use. And Tanzania Investment Centre announced that guidelines that will make the Tanzania Land Bank functional will be ready early 2013.
Kuwait, Saudi eye Sudan farmland
- Kuwait Times
- 03 January 2013
Sudan launched a major dam project on Tuesday to boost power supply and agricultural irrigation, a plan officials hope will foster farmland exports and attract more Gulf investment to the African country as it battles an economic crisis.
Food, fuel and the global land grab
- The Futurist
- 03 January 2013
As land and water become scarce, as the earth’s temperature rises, and as world food security deteriorates, a dangerous geopolitics of food scarcity is emerging, writes Lester Brown
Tanzanie : Contenir "la course à l’accaparement des terres"
- IPS
- 03 January 2013
A partir de janvier 2013, la Tanzanie débutera la restriction de la taille des terres qui peuvent être "cédées" uniquement aux grands investisseurs étrangers et locaux à des fins agricoles.
Iran wants to lease Armenian pasture land
- Asbarez.com
- 02 January 2013
Armenian and Iranian authorities are negotiating on the possible lease by Iranian sheep and cattle breeders of mountain pastures in southeastern Armenia, it was officially confirmed on Friday.
Land grabs: Resisting the land gluttons
- The Land
- 02 January 2013
Winter 2012-2013 issue of The Land magazine
Wealthy Gulf investors warm to Africa
- Reuters
- 02 January 2013
Wealthy Gulf Arab companies are boosting their investment in Africa's vast lands and untapped resources, marking a shift for investors who have traditionally directed their money towards assets in the United States and Europe.
Global land and water grabbing
- PNAS
- 02 January 2013
It is found that about 0.31 × 1012 m3⋅y−1 of green water (i.e., rainwater) and up to 0.14 × 1012 m3⋅y−1 of blue water (i.e., irrigation water) are appropriated globally for crop and livestock production in 47 × 106 ha of grabbed land worldwide (i.e., in 90% of the reported global grabbed land).
From Brooklyn to Bolivian rice venture, prison and Sean Penn’s help
- New York Times
- 01 January 2013
Jacob Ostreicher was a flooring contractor and father of five from Borough Park, Brooklyn, who, like more than a few entrepreneurs battered by the recession, decided to seek his fortune abroad. In his case, he went into rice farming in Bolivia.
Whose land is it anyway?
- FSRN
- 01 January 2013
Land across great swathes of the developing world has become a prime target for foreign investors. Free Speech Radio News explores the issue by looking at what’s happening in Kenya.
FICCI President leads industry mission to Ethiopia, addresses COMESA Business Forum
- FICCI Business Digest
- 31 December 2012
The delegation consisted of senior business leaders from Indian companies such as Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi of Karuturi Global Ltd
Sierra Leone: Lease between Aristeus Palm Oil Limited and the Chiefdom Council of Sorogbema (Pujehun District)
- 31 December 2012
Lesse between Aristeus Palm Oil Limited and the Chiefdom Council of Sorogbema (Pujehun District), for 47,567 ha.
International guidelines: solutions to problems underlying large-scale land deals?
- aGter
- 31 December 2012
This article calls into question the depth and effectiveness of a regulatory approach arguing that problems underlying large-scale land deals are so deep constituting socio-institutional problems of power asymmetry, exclusion and invisiblization, than just investment externalities or regulatory challenges.