There are unconfirmed reports that former Labor prime minister Bob Hawke is representing a Shanghai-based company wanting to farm all 15,000 hectares of the land being developed as part of the Ord irrigation project in Western Australia.
Los Grobo plans to expand its cultivation in Brazil to 90,000 hectares in the 2012/13 crop year from 60,000 hectares today.
Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, with an estimated $100 billion in assets, expects to start exports of grains and wool from Australia as it nears completion of a $486 million farm investment plan
New Mexico State Investment Council will consider approving investment policies for a farmland suballocation, potentially in emerging markets, in its 10% long-term real asset portfolio.
SLC Agricola, the Brazil farm operator with large ambitions in farmland acquisition, sealed a $239m cash injection from UK fund manager Valiance Asset Management for a business aimed at turning scrub into "high-quality" farms.
China would invest billions of dollars to transform vast tracts of undeveloped land in northern Australia for farming, under a plan confirmed yesterday by the federal government.
La provincia de Fujian es responsable de la avanzada asiática en los campos bonaerenses. A cambio de tener prioridad de compra sobre la cosecha instalarán un sistema de irrigación en Carmen de Patagones y Villarino. La República Popular China también se dispone a invertir en puertos y plantas de procesamiento de pescado
The distinctive feature of these land deals that has attracted attention is the speed of the acquisitions, the transparency (lack thereof) of the terms and the scale of the acquisitions and implied investment.
La especulación financiera tiene un nuevo objetivo: la tierra. Miles de pequeños campesinos sufren las consecuencias.
Hemos visto, y ha sido ampliamente denunciado por GRAIN, como en la última década ha brotado un impulso irrefrenable por el acaparamiento global de tierras. La conquista por el agua camina de la mano del acaparamiento de tierras recién explicado.
The PRI for Farmland are supposed to an opportunity for communities and CSOs to assess the performance of investors in farmland against a set of voluntary standards, but fall short of what’s needed to hold companies properly to account.
Ce numéro de 'Grain de sel', publié par Inter-Réseaux Développement Rural, cherche à briser certains préjugés et à réaffirmer certaines vérités par rapport au foncier en Afrique.
Trascurato il land grabbing nell'accordo di libero scambio
Après la Suisse, l’Allemagne et les Pays-Bas, c’est au tour de la France de tirer la sonnette d’alarme pour tenter d’empêcher les investisseurs étrangers de faire main basse sur les meilleures terres agricoles de l’Hexagone.
Detrás de la nueva conquista especulativa de tierras se encuentra el agua como factor estratégico
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