• African experts seek plan to outlaw land grabs by foreigners
    • PANA
    • 05 October 2011

    African experts gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, are discussing a common position to outlaw land grabbing by foreigners, the latest threat to food security in the continent.

  • Rural women and corporate investment in African land
    • Oxfam/ActionAid
    • 05 October 2011

    Forced evictions off land; ‘displacement by market forces’; the fencing off of common lands and water for private use - are all manifestations of a deeper entrenched development problem on the African continent.

  • Karuturi incurs $15 mn loss as floods ravage maize crop in Ethiopia
    • Business Standard
    • 05 October 2011

    Karuturi in a statement said the floods had affected its maize crop in over 12,000 hectares of land that has been leased to them.

  • Report plays up challenges in agriculture investment abroad
    • Saudi Gazette
    • 05 October 2011

    There are a number of problems hindering an efficient implementation of the King Abdullah Initiative for Saudi Agricultural Investment Abroad, according to a Ministry of Commerce and Industry report.

  • World Agriculture Investment Overview: Expert Insights
    • FC Business Intelligence
    • 05 October 2011

    Synthesis report from the World Agriculture Investment Conference, London, UK, 4-5 October.

  • BrasilAgro turns from farmland buyer to seller
    • Agrimoney
    • 05 October 2011

    BrasilAgro, which amassed some 170,000 hectares of land in less than four years, has turned seller, disposing of the first property which it bought for a price 10% higher than the start of the year.

  • The Responsible Investor’s Guide to Commodities
    • onValues
    • 05 October 2011

    onValues has released "The Responsible Investor's Guide to Commodities", a report aimed to help institutional investors navigate the environmental, social and governance challenges of commodities-related investments, including farmland.

  • Bonduelle veut accélérer son développement en Russie
    • AFP
    • 05 October 2011

    Le groupe français Bonduelle, spécialisé dans les légumes en conserve et surgelés, a annoncé mardi son projet d'acheter une usine et de reprendre des terres agricoles en Russie, appartenant au groupe coopératif français Cecab

  • Morgan bet farm in Ukraine before bailout
    • Bloomberg
    • 05 October 2011

    Bloomberg's Alan Katz reports on Morgan Stanley's farming venture on the steppes of Ukraine which it abandoned in July 2009. The failed gamble demonstrates how Wall Street firms, in the last gasp of a debt-fueled bull market, strayed further from their traditional businesses to embrace diverse projects with unfamiliar risks.

  • Land appeals as safe haven
    • Progressive Farmer
    • 04 October 2011

    In Brazil, government surveys found foreigners owned 10% of the nation's cultivated land. Much of that was funds with international backing in London or New York.

  • World's rich nurture returns from forests and farms
    • Reuters
    • 04 October 2011

    A small but growing number of the world's wealthy are shoring up their portfolios with investments in forestry and farmland in an effort to take the sting from losses in more traditional assets as the financial crisis trundles on.

  • L'UE doit mettre en cohérence l'ensemble de ses politiques avec les objectifs de développement
    • Politique Digitale France
    • 04 October 2011

    "Il convient de faire cesser la spéculation sur les terres et les matières premières agricoles en proposant un moratoire sur l’accaparement des terres arables agricoles dans les régions touchées par la famine," déclare Eva Joly

  • Sénégal : Réportage vidéo de la marche de Fanaye contre l'accaparement des terres
    • Pronat TV
    • 04 October 2011

    Grande rassemblement contre le projet du groupe italien Senhuile SA pour l’exploitation de 20 mille hectares de graines de tournesols dans la communauté rurale de Fanaye.

  • Looking for farmland in Tanzania? Try the Prisons Service
    • HowWeMadeItInAfrica
    • 04 October 2011

    It has been reported that the Tanzania Investment Centre has partnered with the country's prison service to market the latter’s 130,000 hectares of land to investors.

  • Public hearing: Food security
    • European Parliament
    • 04 October 2011

    With famine hitting the horn of Africa, the European Parliament holds a full-day hearing on food security challenges in developing countries, looking at EU policies, sustainable farming, commodity speculation, land grab and other key food-related issues.

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