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Brazil mulls leasing farmland to foreigners
- Reuters
- 09 May 2011
Brazil may start leasing farm land to foreigners to find a way around new legal restrictions on land sales and attract more foreign investment, the agriculture minister said.
Arrendamento de terra pode ser opção para estrangeiro, diz Rossi
- O Globo
- 09 May 2011
O Brasil pode adotar uma política de arrendar terras agrícolas para estrangeiros, no que seria uma forma de driblar restrições legais à venda de propriedades para empresas do exterior e fomentar investimentos no setor, afirmou o ministro da Agricultura, Wagner Rossi.
RFI : Accaparement des terres au Mali
- RFI
- 07 May 2011
Accaparement des terres au Mali vue par David Solon, directeur de la rédaction de Terraeco.
ACT NOW! congratulates Acting PM on land grab announcement
- ACT NOW!
- 06 May 2011
SABLs have been used to take control of over 5 million hectares of land away from local people in the last few years. This means more than 10% of Papua New Guinea’s total land mass is now under the control of corporations.
Papua New Guinea suspends controversial grants of community forest lands to foreign corps
- Mongabay
- 06 May 2011
The government of Papua New Guinea suspended its Special Agricultural and Business Leases program which has granted concessions to mostly foreign corporations across 5.2 m ha of community forest land
L'Argentine n'est plus à vendre
- Le Point
- 06 May 2011
Cristina Kirchner a présenté un projet de loi qui limite les rachats des terres par des personnes physiques, des gouvernements et des sociétés étrangères.
Global land grab: The ongoing struggle (and a lost opportunity?)
- Water Channel
- 06 May 2011
Are land and water rights for real? How can they be guaranteed in the face of the insurmountable bargaining power that big corporations seem to posses?
Evidence is piling up against acquisitions of farmland in poor countries
- The Economist
- 05 May 2011
When land deals were first proposed, they were said to offer the host countries four main benefits: more jobs, new technology, better infrastructure and extra tax revenues. None of these promises has been fulfilled.
Rio Negro: Se analizó iniciativa para rechazar proyecto sojero y convocan a debate
- Bolson Web
- 05 May 2011
En el marco de la reunión de una Comisión de la Legislatura provincial de Río Negro, fue tratado y analizado ayer el proyecto de ley 5/2011, que propicia el rechazo el Acuerdo de Cooperación para el Proyecto de Inversión agro alimenticio con la Empŕesa Beidahuang.
Glencore reveals secrets of success in agriculture
- Agrimoney
- 05 May 2011
Glencore has an 8.7% share of the "addressable" global grain trade and farming operations covering 270,000ha in Argentina, Australia, Kazakhstan, Russia and the Ukraine.
Ethiopia says it may grant additional land to Karuturi Global
- Bloomberg
- 05 May 2011
Karuturi Global Ltd. may receive an additional 200,000 hectares (494,211 acres) of land from the Ethiopian government if its current 100,000-hectare concession is developed within two years, the Agriculture Ministry said.
Liberia: Gaddafi's U.S.30 million Lofa project collapses
- New democrat
- 04 May 2011
The project funded by Col. Muammar Kadhafi with some US$30m to engage in mechanized production of rice has collapsed, and President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is now seeking a new investor to take over the project.
Galtere targets $1 Billion in Brazil rice, Australia beef assets
- Bloomberg
- 04 May 2011
“We are looking at rice farmlands as it is the main food crop,” said Renatto Barbieri, Galtere's portfolio manager. “Have you heard of anyone dying because of not eating sugar or corn or soybeans?”
Rechazos y reparos al proyecto
- Río Negro
- 04 May 2011
Manifestantes de distintas organizaciones ambientales y de la CTA, expresaron su repudio al acuerdo agroalimentario que firmó el gobernador Miguel Saiz, con la empresa Beidahuang State Farms Business Trade Group.
Chineses buscam alugar terras após projeto de proibir venda na Argentina
- BBC
- 04 May 2011
Representantes de uma empresa estatal chinesa estão na província de Rio Negro, no sul da Argentina, para alugar terras para a produção de alimentos que serão exportados para a China.