• ACIL plans to invest $15 mn to start contract farming abroad
    • Business Standard
    • 06 January 2011

    India's ACIL Cotton Industries said it plans to invest nearly $15 million to start contract farming of crops like coffee, pulses, oilseeds, cereals, potato, sugarcane and vegetables through lease-hold agricultural land in Brazil, Congo and Ethiopia.

  • Rising food prices bring host of political risks
    • Reuters
    • 06 January 2011

    Food prices are soaring again and the highest risks of farmland expropriation remain in Latin America, while the greatest impact of the recent rally could be on land deals in Africa.

  • « Oser lutter pour oser vaincre »
    • Hub Rural
    • 06 January 2011

    Au forum de Kolongo, presque 30 témoignages ont dénoncé les violences et la non prise en compte des réalités paysannes : personnes âgées battues, une femme enceinte de 5 mois a perdu son bébé sous les coups, opacité des tractations, obstruction à l’information.

  • Privatization of agricultural land in Ukraine needed to meet domestic demand for food, says premier
    • Interfax
    • 06 January 2011

    Prime Minister Azarov says Ukraine won't be able to meet its demand for food without the revision of issues related to ownership in the agricultural sector

  • Argentina eyes GCC investments in food
    • Arab News
    • 06 January 2011

    ”Argentina will welcome investment from Bahrain in its agricultural sector so it can guarantee its own food security,” Ignacio Rossi Sammartino, of the Commercial Section at the Argentine Embassy, told Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry board members.

  • Indian farmers look to reap rich gains in Madagascar
    • Economic Times
    • 05 January 2011

    Madagascar is drawing farmer-entrepreneurs in large numbers from India’s breadbasket, Punjab and Haryana.

  • UAE has a long history of support for Sudan
    • The National
    • 05 January 2011

    Abu Dhabi acquired 30,000 ha of Sudanese farmland last June through the ADFD to grow alfalfa, a crop used to feed cattle.

  • Libya could provide 60,000 hectares of field for Turkish investors
    • Tripoli Post
    • 04 January 2011

    Libyan officials said that they could allocate 60,000 hectares of field for Turkish investors for production of wheat and corn.

  • More talks on the land grab
    • Ethiomedia
    • 04 January 2011

    In Ethiopia, resentments over land grab have already started claiming lives. The TPLF regime has already killed 10 protesting ethnic Anuak farmers and has sent thousands more to concentration camps.

  • Alternative investing: Digging into farmland
    • CNBC
    • 03 January 2011

    Finding suitable farmland investment vehicles is not as easy as one might think.

  • Cacería de tierras fértiles
    • La Voz del Interior
    • 03 January 2011

    El mundo asiste a una vertiginosa carrera de compra de tierras fértiles, sobre todo en África y Sudamérica.

  • Georgia calls on SA farmers for help
    • Business Day
    • 31 December 2010

    The government of Georgia is offering state-owned farmland, for purchase, to farmer members of the Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU) in South Africa

  • The changing face of agricultural business
    • Farm Weekly
    • 30 December 2010

    "We want to make agriculture sexy," says the head of Macquaraie's Retail Agribuiness operation.

  • Mauritanie : hold-up sur les terres des populations du Sud
    • Yahya Kane
    • 30 December 2010

    Ce hold-up avait été révélé au grand public en juillet 2010 par Eveil Hebdo qui mettait en cause le président Ould Aziz sur le point de signer un décret qui pourrait octroyait 50 000 ha de terrain à la société saoudienne Tabouk-Eziraiya dans la commune de Boghé.

  • Extranjerización de la tierra en Argentina
    • Diario Actualidad
    • 29 December 2010

    Argentina con un potencial de producción aun no explorado constituye una gran base de interés por sus producciones para países asiáticos

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