Benjamin Steinbruch, dono da CSN e presidente da Fiesp, diz que chineses podem 'tirar os competidores do jogo' e defende restrições à compra de terras e reservas minerais
Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) has signed an agreement with Yuan Longping High-Tech Agriculture Company of China for the development of an agriculture farm bloc.
„Weltweit hungern mittlerweile über eine Milliarde Menschen – ein Grund dafür sind großflächige Landnahmen. Deshalb stellen diese für die Menschen in den armen Ländern dieser Welt eine große Bedrohung dar. Doch die Bunderegierung ist nicht nur uniformiert, sondern auch desinteressiert “, stellt Niema Movassat, Mitglied im Ausschuss für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung für die Bundestagsfraktion DIE LINKE mit Bedauern fest.
As India looks at avenues beyond its shores to deal with food security, Uganda, which has nearly half the arable land in east Africa, has laid the red carpet for inward investment from India Inc.
Africa, where one in three people is malnourished, is now growing tomatoes and butter lettuce for export.
Government of Tanzania will not compensate villagers who have moved onto land of the proposed irrigation farming project with Korea.
Fears foreign interests have been mounting a major land grab in New Zealand, have been shot down by global accountancy firm KPMG.
La polémique autour de l'accaparement de terres, en particulier en Afrique, est relancée par une étude de la Banque mondiale qui tarde à être publiée alors que le cours du blé repart à la hausse
Singapore-listed Golden Agri Resources said it was “actively evaluating” taking a share in a 220,000-hectare project being offered by the government of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
Abu Dhabi’s Al Dahra Agricultural Company is halfway through a plan involving more than 60,700 hectares of farmland in Europe, the US, south Asia and north Africa to boost the UAE’s food security.
Australian Liberal senator Bill Heffernan warns that sovereign wealth funds need to be watched because some were "already acquiring other sovereigns' wealth to protect their own food security tasks".
A delegation of Korea experts is expected to arrive in the country to sign a $50 million pact covering an initial 15,000 ha in the Rufiji River Basin.
States and mega-corporations are snapping up cheap land to produce food and making money at the expense of people in host countries.
It is not too late for equitable partnerships to flourish between foreign investors and local communities.
Macquarie Group's agricultural division has launched a new cropping fund that will buy large-scale grain properties in Australia and Brazil.
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Tanzania: BBT gets massive AfDB 347bn/- boost
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