Ukraine plans to lift a ban on the sale of farmland next year, Le Monde reported, citing an interview with Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysyazhnyuk.
If the early reports are anything to go by, the Bangladeshi deals already incorporate many elements that suggest they are being done in a way likely to engender fierce resentment and opposition in the African countries concerned.
- African Agriculture
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23 May 2011
El debate sobre la venta de de tierras rurales a extranjeros tiene larga data. Casi todos los bloques políticos han promovido iniciativas en el Congreso, pero ninguna ha logrado trascender y convertirse en ley. A tres semanas de que el Poder Ejecutivo enviase un proyecto propio para limitar el dominio por parte de extranjeros, la norma aguarda ser discutida en las comisiones de Legislación General y de Agricultura de la Cámara de Diputados.
- Parlamentario
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23 May 2011
Mykola Pryssiajniouk, ministre ukrainien de l'Agriculture cité lundi par le quotidien Le Monde, a décidé de lever le moratoire sur la vente de terres agricoles en Ukraine.
Inversionistas chilenos han incrementado la adquisición de tierras agrícolas en la costa peruana debido a la alta productividad y rentabilidad que tiene el sector.
Regulators are warning that a new real estate bubble may be forming across the US grain belt -- and National Australia Bank is right in the middle.
- Sydney Morning Herald
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23 May 2011
Colombia plans to nearly double agricultural land growing crops for food and biofuel, part of a new investment boom in the country as violence ebbs from a decades-long internal conflict fueled by drug profits.
According to the legislation, Kazakhstan has the right to lease land to foreigners for a period of 10 years says Vice Minister of Agriculture Saktash Khassenov
Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay have united to draft laws to limit acquisition by foreigners of extensive tracts of their fertile agricultural land.
- Catholic Online
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23 May 2011
Of the produce, 20 percent will go to the government of Uganda, and the remaining will be sent to Bangladesh with a profit of 10 percent plus production cost, says Nitol-Niloy Group
Companies in Bangladesh are planning to lease thousands of hectares of land for agriculture in some African countries. Robert Ziegler, the Director General of the International Rice Research Institute, believes that Bangladesh's food strategy will become more widespread.
Será en el primer encuentro de las comisiones que tratarán el proyecto: Legislación general, Agricultura y Asuntos Constitucionales. Podría estar también el ministro Domínguez.
- Tiempo Argentino
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22 May 2011
Prevén la siembra para julio o agosto en el Valle Inferior. Después la soja. Serán pruebas experimentales y además, habrá ensayos con otras plantaciones en la estación del INTA.
More than 10 per cent of Papua New Guinea's land mass has been handed over to foreign and national corporate interests over the past seven years under mysterious land deals that appear to be aimed at logging, not food or cash crop production.
- The Australian
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21 May 2011
In 2009 Sime Darby Plantation acquired a 63-year concession covering 220,000ha in Liberia that it will developed into oil palm and rubber plantations
- The Star Online
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21 May 2011