New Zealand's state-owned farm company Landcorp dismisses as conspiracy theory the notion that its bid for the Crafar farms is political interference
Le gouvernement du Brésil est en train d’étudier la possibilité d’interdire aux étrangers d’acheter de la terre brésilienne. Un échange avec le journaliste qui a dévoilé l'histoire.
- El Espectador
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24 June 2010
Un rapport commandé par le gouvernement français sur la 'vente' des terres arables à des investisseurs étrangers sera publié le lundi 28 juin 2010.
The government of Brazil is studying the possibility of prohibiting the purchase of land by foreigners. A discussion with the journalist who broke the news, Mauro Zanatto.
- El Espectador
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24 June 2010
Sólo en Mato Grosso, grupos argentinos como Los Grobo o El Tejar tienen más de 1 millón de hectáreas.
- El Espectador
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24 June 2010
A tribe of hunter gatherers living in trees in the forests of Papua, near the planned Merauke food estate where Wilmar and other firms plan to get farmland, has been discovered officially for the first time.
"No es una cuestión de xenofobia. La tierra es un medio de producción finito y el estado brasileño va a poner límites."
New private equity fund targets Cambodia’s still-developing agriculture sector
- Phnom Penh Post
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24 June 2010
More than 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a gulf still exists between farm prices in eastern and western Germany which provides a "good opportunity" for investors, a boss at KTG Agrar has said.
A recent global surge in private investment in farmland is set to continue as investors look to returns from agricultural production and to rising land values, said an OECD executive on Thursday.
Outline of major Ukraine companies open to farmland investors
Des manifestations populaires seront organisées à Bamako le 27 juin sous le thème de « L’accaparement des terres au Mali : facteurs d’appauvrissement et d’asservissement des masses rurale et urbaine »
Major factor for enacting new investment law for land was Saudi Arabia's halting of investment projects worth billions of riyals, says Indonesia's Minister of Agriculture.
Brazil's government wants to tighten restrictions on foreign ownership of farm lands in Latin America's biggest country, the Agrarian Development Ministry said Tuesday.
“We are going to prepare a PEC [Proposal for a Constitutional Amendment] to make it clear to investors that they can invest in any sector except land”, Guilherme Cassel, Brazil's Minister for Agrarian Development says
- Valor Econômico
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22 June 2010