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Wilmar plans to invest USD2 bln in Indonesia
- Reuters
- 21 June 2010
Singapore's Wilmar, the world's largest listed palm oil firm, wants to invest $2 billion in Indonesia where they are targeting Merauke to develop sugar cane plantations
Foreign rush for farms
- Stock & Land
- 21 June 2010
A rush of foreign investment interest in Australian farmland is stirring new concerns about just how much overseas ownership of local agricultural resources is too much.
Sir Bob warns pensions may miss out on Africa
- Financial Times
- 20 June 2010
Sir Bob Geldof has warned UK pension funds they are missing out on the “last great investment opportunity left” by not placing money in Africa -- including its arable lands.
Responding to ‘land grabbing’ and promoting responsible investment in agriculture
- IFAD
- 20 June 2010
Responsible investment in agriculture is preferably not about large scale foreign land acquisitions. It is about promoting sustainable agriculture, reducing poverty and meeting the world’s food needs, says IFAD's Harold Liversage
Africa must toughen up trade stance, says UN report
- The Guardian
- 18 June 2010
The UN Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) said that so far trade and investment deals with partners in the south are merely reinforcing a long-standing trend with the north in which African countries export farm produce, minerals, ores, and crude oil, and import manufactured goods.
Saudi Arabia ready to invest in rice development in Indonesia
- Antara
- 18 June 2010
Indonesia's Minister of Agriculture says the Embassy in Riyadh will organize a meeting and formulate regulations on the investment, as a follow-up of his visit to Saudi Arabia
Key bullish about Chinese trade prospects
- Radio New Zealand
- 18 June 2010
There are always concerns surrounding foreign ownership, but they're about the wider issue of land ownership and not specifically about China, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said after talks with Chinese Vice-President Xi Jingping
Lack of vision for small farmers
- Jakarta Post
- 18 June 2010
Instead of providing land to big corporations, the Indonesian government has a better choice: to redistribute land to the millions of landless and peasant families so they can work again to feed their family.
Chinese Government buying up our farms, says Senator Bill Heffernan
- Daily Telegraph
- 17 June 2010
The Chinese Government is buying Australian farms to directly feed its population, a senior Liberal said on the eve of a visit by a top Bejing official.
US bean farmers seek Brazil farmland deals
- Reuters
- 17 June 2010
In a small-town spin on a global agricultural investment trend, a group of US Midwest soybean farmers has issued a private placement this month to raise capital for farmland acquisitions in Brazil.
Karuturi Global on Ethiopian plans
- NDTV
- 16 June 2010
Sai R Karuturi, founder and MD of Karuturi Global, says the company has acquired a very large piece of land in Ethiopia and has started agricultural production from it.
Acquiring farmland abroad
- Financial Express
- 16 June 2010
The Indian government is encouraging private companies to shop for land in countries like Canada, Myanmar, Australia and Argentina to grow crops under long-term supply contracts.
Towards a broader view of the politics of global land grab
- TNI
- 15 June 2010
The political dynamics around land are further exposing the inappropriateness of the aggressively promoted mainstream ‘toolkit’ of ‘land governance’.
Bénin : Des terres cultivables bradées à des groupes financiers étrangers
- La Nouvelle Tribune
- 15 June 2010
Ce sont les communes de Djidja et de Za-Kpota dans le Zou qui battent le record avec près de 50% des terres cultivables aux mains de ces firmes étrangères.
OECD upbeat on getting foreign farm investor code
- Reuters
- 15 June 2010
"It's not something that is going to take too long, it's not rocket science," Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the OECD, said of the planned guidelines on agriculture.