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Macquarie bets on milk
- Wall Street Journal
- 30 November 2011
Company now manages farms on 3.6 million hectares and believes that, overall, US$25 billion of institutional capital has gone into the acquisition of farms.
Feronia Inc. completes largest single rice planting in DRC
- Feronia Inc.
- 30 November 2011
Feronia Arable holds a 10,000 hectare concession in the Bas-Congo province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, 200km from the national capital, Kinshasa.
Indonesia taken to task over MIFEE
- Down to Earth
- 30 November 2011
The following report, by independent researcher Anna Bolin, explores the global trends and influences at work behind agriculture mega-projects like MIFEE in Papua.
A global alliance emerges in West Africa
- Grassroots International
- 28 November 2011
“Throughout these few days, we have exchanged our experiences as farmers. I have learned that land grabbing is slightly different in every country—but the consequences are always the same. Without land, we cannot live.”
  La visite des directeurs de Farm Lands of Guinea en République du Mali – Sélection de 10 000 hectares avec le ministre de l’Agriculture  
- FLGI
- 28 November 2011
«Nous avons décidé de faire une demande pour obtenir 10 000 hectares pour y faire pousser du soja, du maïs, du riz et du blé,» a indiqué le PDG de Farm Lands of Guinea.
China expected to have investments in Africa private equity funds
- Xinhua
- 28 November 2011
Citadel Capital, which owns farms in Egypt and Sudan, is expected to start talks with the China Investment Corporation next month.
Según un estudio de la FAO América Latina, objeto de fuertes ventas de tierras a extranjeros
- EFEAGRO
- 28 November 2011
Un estudio de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO) en diecisiete países de América Latina y el Caribe descubrió intensos procesos de concentración y venta de tierras a extranjeros en la región.
¡Detengamos el acaparamiento de tierras, ya!
- Vía Campesina
- 28 November 2011
Declaración de la Conferencia Internacional de Campesinos, cuyo objetivo fue fortalecer la lucha contra el acaparamiento de tierras.
Australia: Expanding PrimeAg has $1bn in its sights
- The Australian
- 28 November 2011
PrimeAg chairman said while it was talking to domestic and offshore investors about taking part in the fund to reach a target of $600 million in funds under management within six months, it had grander ambitions.
Farm Lands of Guinea Directors complete visit to Republic of Mali; 10,000 hectares selected with Minister of Agriculture
- Farm Lands of Guinea
- 28 November 2011
Farm Lands of Guinea Inc. have decided to apply for a 10,000 ha lease in the Office du Niger to grow soybean, maize and rice
Memorandum sur l'accaparement des terres dans la communauté de Fanaye : révélations autour d'un deal de 20000 hectares
- PiccMi.com
- 28 November 2011
Après le retrait définitif (?) du projet SENETHANOL, les populations de Fanaye ont fait parvenir aux autorités compétentes et à certaines chancelleries un Mémorandum.
Investing in soft commodities : Be wise !
- SFG
- 28 November 2011
Pension funds should abstain from investments that do not go by these rules and prefer investments in their own geographical area as an excess supply of non-productive capital has a negative influence on commodity prices.
Cuando un gran proyecto de biocombustible se convierte en trampa mortal
- Viento Sur
- 27 November 2011
El conflicto en Fanaye ha adquirido una dimensión nacional, una importancia jamás vista en Senegal.
Strong process of land concentration and in foreign hands in Latam says FAO
- MercoPress
- 26 November 2011
A report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in seventeen Latinamerican and Caribbean countries discovered an intense concentration and foreign-held land process.
Farmers, outside investors bid up local ag land
- The Bakersfield Californian
- 26 November 2011
"The stock market's pretty wild. The bond market's nothing. CDs are zero," said Steve Runyan, an agricultural real estate appraiser, "and so you have a tremendous amount of money in pension funds and investment funds of some kind that need some kind of return." Some of his clients for California farmland are international companies looking at global population trends.