• Buffett’s Hathaway seeks farmland in Brazil, Relatorio reports
    • Bloomberg
    • 01 September 2010

    Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is seeking a partnership with Brazilian billionaire Rubens Ometto and soybean grower Blairo Maggi to buy farmland in the South American country, Relatorio Reservado reported.

  • Africa: Agri-projects at 'unprecedented' levels
    • Business Day
    • 01 September 2010

    The number of investment projects in the agricultural sector in sub-Saharan Africa is at "unprecedented" levels, said Paul Runge of Africa Project Access at the ag investment conference in Durban

  • Galtere says raising $1 bln agribusiness fund
    • Reuters
    • 01 September 2010

    Galtere, a New York fund manager, said it was raising $1 billion to invest in production facilities for agricultural commodities -- including arable farmlands in countries such as Australia, Brazil and Uruguay -- that it planned to later sell or list publicly.

  • Comment: Brazil appears to be moving to ban foreign farmland ownership
    • HedgeWeek
    • 01 September 2010

    AgCapita's Stephen Johnston says Brazil's "sudden hostility to foreign farmland ownership" should make "developed markets such as Canada" more attractive to investors

  • African farms lure overseas investment
    • Business Report
    • 01 September 2010

    45 new private equity funds are planning to invest US$2 billion in African agriculture in the next 3-5 years, according to participants at the Africainvestor Agribusiness Project Summit taking place in Durban

  • Brazil Ain't for Sale… Chapter 1 of the Coming Food Crisis
    • Asia Pacific Dispatch
    • 31 August 2010

    Brazil shocked foreign investors when President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he was concerned about Brazilian land falling into foreign hands.

  • A small paradise that will be annihilated: View from Merauke, West Papua
    • Indigenous Peoples Issues
    • 31 August 2010

    No-one should be surprised when people start describing the Merauke Integrated Rice Estate as a clear case of genocide by the Indonesian government, because it has been well-planned and well-organised.

  • Saudi-UK partners to visit Philippines
    • Arab News
    • 31 August 2010

    Saudi and UK investors will travel to the Philippines in October to discuss "the possibility of food production in southern Philippines, with the government providing them the needed land".

  • Office du Niger : quelles realités entre accaparement des terres et développement agricole ?
    • FARM
    • 31 August 2010

    L’objet de cette note est de présenter et discuter des informations récentes recueillies sur l’évolution des aménagements et des investissements étrangers dans la zone de l’Office du Niger au Mali.

  • Brasil limita la compra de tierras por extranjeros
    • Mas Producción
    • 30 August 2010

    En un esfuerzo por proteger a su sector agropecuario, considerado clave para su desarrollo económico, el gobierno de Brasil endureció ayer las limitaciones a la compra de tierras por parte de extranjeros.

  • Estrangeirização das terras brasileiras
    • CONTAG
    • 30 August 2010

    A Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores na Agricultura – Contag – considera a importante à publicação do parecer da Advocacia Geral da União, que restabelece condições para limitar à compra de terras no Brasil por estrangeiros.

  • Fonterra eyes options for China relaunch
    • Business Day
    • 30 August 2010

    Fonterra says it is having a "very close look" at relaunching a processing business in China as it faces a rapidly growing competitive threat from Chinese manufacturing startups with their own large-scale dairy farms.

  • Africa: up for grabs
    • FOE
    • 30 August 2010

    Studies suggest that a third of the land sold or acquired in Africa is intended for fuel crops - some 5 million hectares. Friends of the Earth has looked at cases of land grabbing in 11 countries across Africa, from Ethiopia to Mozambique

  • Hassad Food to buy sugar project in Brazil
    • Reuters
    • 29 August 2010

    Hassad Food, owned by Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, plans to acquire a sugar project in Brazil with a capacity to produce 25 million tonnes per annum, 70% of which will be shipped to Qatar.

  • Hassad Food to market own brand of rice in Qatar
    • The Peninsula
    • 29 August 2010

    The Qatari company is about to bring home the first shipment of its own wheat produced overseas, and to start producing its own sugar in Brazil

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