Karuturi to fence farm half the size of Addis
    Karuturi Global Ltd. is to construct embankments around 25,000ha of farmland, half the size of Addis Abeba, in Gambela, at a cost of US$15 million, following its report of a loss of US$15 million due to flooding.
    • Addis Fortune
    • 09 October 2011
    Des villages du Sud mauritanien dénoncent une tentative d'expropriation
    Les communautés villageoises du département de Boghé ont dénoncé, samedi au cours d’une rencontre avec la presse, l’accaparement de leurs terres au profit d'une entreprise saoudienne, la Société Tabouk El Eziraya, affiliée au groupe Errajihi.
    • PANA
    • 08 October 2011
    Producteurs d'huile de palme cherchent terrains
    Soumis à des contraintes d’espace, les groupes asiatiques multiplient les accords en Afrique. Si le pari est parfois risqué, les perspectives de la demande mondiale en huile de palme leur laissent entrevoir un fort retour sur investissement.
    • Jeune Afrique
    • 07 October 2011
    Liberia: Sime Darby Company Fined U.S.$50,000
    The Environmental Protection Agency has imposed US$50,000 fine on the Sime Darby Plantation Inc. with immediate effect as a result of non-compliance with the terms and conditions of a permit.
    • Heritage
    • 07 October 2011
    Foreign land grab fears spark registry call
    Wingecarribee Shire Council has asked the state and federal governments to apply greater scrutiny to the acquisition of Australian land by foreign governments by setting up a registry of foreign land ownership.
    • ABC
    • 07 October 2011
    Going public to improve investment in agriculture
    While certain provisions in contracts can contain sensitive commercial information that may require a level of confidentiality, it does not justify keeping all information about large-scale agricultural projects outside the public domain.
    • ITN
    • 07 October 2011
    Agriculture : l'achat de terres en Afrique, un business sous influences
    Milliardaires américains ou saoudiens, aristocrates portugais et britanniques, ex-ambassadeurs occidentaux… Derrière certains contrats signés en Afrique se cachent des personnalités du monde des affaires et, parfois, de la politique. Enquête sur ces nouveaux spéculateurs.
    • Jeune Afrique
    • 07 October 2011
    África está en venta
    Grandes compañías compran tierras para producir alimentos que luego exportan - Mientras, los habitantes locales pasan hambre.
    • El País
    • 07 October 2011
    Food finance: Founding farmers
    Asset owners and managers are signing up to a series of principles on how they invest in agricultural land. Will this mollify critics of the land grab? Nick Lord reports.
    • Euromoney
    • 06 October 2011
    Politique d’accaparement des terres : Les ruraux organisent la résistance
    Si l’Etat ne prend aucune disposition face au bradage des terres au profit des investisseurs privés, les sénégalais ne pourront plus se nourrir de leurs terres. C’est l’alerte sonnée par les responsables du Cncr.
    • Senenews
    • 06 October 2011
    Sénégal : Les CRCR contre l’accaparement des terres
    Le gouvernement sénégalais vient d’octroyer 20 000 hectares de terre dans la localité de Fanaye à des investisseurs italiens pour y développer des biocarburants, ce qui a mécontenté le Conseil Régional des Coopération des Ruraux
    • Le Griot
    • 06 October 2011
    Karuturi’s first corn crop in Ethiopia destroyed; will replant
    The flooding that breached specially built barriers near Karuturi’s plantations couldn’t have been predicted, Karuturi claims.
    • Bloomberg
    • 06 October 2011
    Dealing with the race for agricultural land
    Panel of five men at the at the Global Economic Symposium in Kiel, Germany discusses the problem of “land grabbing”.
    • Economic Insights
    • 06 October 2011
    British, French firms linked to African land grabs
    The French Development Agency and the UK-based Emergent Asset Management have been named as the leading investors in massive land deals involving African leaders
    • PANA
    • 06 October 2011
    Farmland seen returning up to 12% by $469 billion fund manager
    Farmland investments may return 8 percent to 12 percent annually as global food demand increases, said the largest US pensions manager for teachers and academic researchers with $469 billion of assets.
    • Bloomberg
    • 06 October 2011
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