Australia: Foreign-owned farmland prediction
    Half of Gippsland's farmland could be foreign owned in a decade if current interest in the region continues on the same trajectory, two industry leaders have predicted.
    • Latrobe Valley Express
    • 06 February 2012
    PPF to set up farmland and timberland panel
    The £9bn Pension Protection Fund is set to add specialist farmland and timberland fund managers to its investment manager panel to assist its alternative investment programme.
    • Professional Pensions
    • 06 February 2012
    Reglamentarían esta semana la Ley de Extranjerización de Tierras
    Los ministros de Agricultura y Justicia se reunieron para ultimar detalles del decreto que otorgará plena vigencia a la noma aprobada en diciembre de 2011
    • Iprofesional
    • 06 February 2012
    Proyecto saudí: "Más concentración y extranjerización de la tierra pública"
    Documento del Centro Nelson Mandela sostiene que el proyecto de entendimiento de Chaco con la empresa saudí Al-Khora yef, constituye "una auténtica situación de emergencia por las locuras de un gobierno que está de paso y que acosa el ambiente".
    • Chaco día por día
    • 06 February 2012
    Funds focus on farming fortunes
    Farming is a sector that Insight Investment, a UK asset manager best known for its expertise in investing in corporate bonds and government debt, has begun to target.
    • Financial News
    • 06 February 2012
    Colonialismo, siglo XXI
    Los venezolanos no podemos ni debemos ser ajenos ni cerrar los ojos, y menos en una etapa en la cual predomina el hermetismo oficial en las negociaciones con otros países
    • El Nacional
    • 05 February 2012
    Madhvani wins Amuru land case
    Thousands of residents of Amuru District community, in Uganda, could soon lose their land after Gulu High Court ruled that over 40,000 hectares be given to Madhvani Group of companies to grow sugarcane.
    • Monitor
    • 05 February 2012
    Kwara’s N70b rice deal sparks row
    A few hours after it was announced with fanfare, the N70 billion agriculture deal between Nigeria's Kwara State government and a Spanish consortium is generating controversy.
    • Nigerian Compass
    • 04 February 2012
    The land of Stronach: Canadian businessman has become Florida county's third-largest land holder
    The Canadian–based businessman has increased his Marion County land holdings in the past two years nearly sixfold, making him the largest private property owner in the county with 29,000 acres.
    • Ocala
    • 04 February 2012
    Nederlandse agrariërs en bedrijven actief bij grondverwerving buitenland
    Het totale areaal landbouwgrond dat van oorsprong Nederlandse land- en tuinbouwbedrijven in de afgelopen decennia in gebruik hebben genomen in het buitenland is ongeveer 500.000 hectare, dat is ongeveer gelijk aan 25% van het totale landbouwareaal in Nederland.
    • AgriHolland B.V.
    • 03 February 2012
    Tillers seek probe of $300 M land lease deal with Bahrain
    The militant peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) today called on the House of Representatives’ committees on agrarian reform and agriculture to conduct a probe and shoot down a $300-million land lease deal the government entered into with Bahrain.
    • KMP
    • 03 February 2012
    Don't sell off our farms
    On his farm at Coleambally, NSW, John Ward admits he is feeling emotional about how foreign investment into Australian agricultural land has been handled.
    • Stock & Land
    • 02 February 2012
    China should build grain processing plants overseas, says official
    China's pursuit of agricultural land overseas should be supplemented by building more grain processing facilities as part of the country's push for global expansion in the farming sector, says Chen Xiwen, general director of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group.
    • Dow Jones
    • 02 February 2012
    China plants bitter seeds in South American farmland
    China increasingly is buying farmland and agricultural companies in South America to feed its ever-growing population.
    • Washington Times
    • 02 February 2012
    Les droits fonciers des communautés africaines en danger
    A l’occasion d’un colloque organisé, ce mercredi 1er février à Londres, par Rights and Ressources Inititative (RRI), -une coalition internationale d’ONG-, une étude révèle que la faiblesse des systèmes fonciers met en danger les communautés rurales africaines et les expose à l’appétit des grandes multinationales agricoles.
    • RFI
    • 02 February 2012

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