farmlandgrab.org | Latest posts

Latest posts

Argentina welcomes Saudi agricultural investment
- Arab News
- 27 May 2010
Argentina will welcome investment from Saudi Arabia in its agricultural sector so the Kingdom can guarantee its own food security, the Argentine Embassy has said.
A new scramble for Africa?
- Mokoro Newsletter
- 27 May 2010
Amid much talk about the need for "codes of conduct" to help regulate this new phenomenon, I found myself wondering whether Cecil Rhodes would have signed such a code. He probably would, and have then gone on to completely disregard it.
Landcorp may bid against Chinese for Crafar farms
- Dominion Post
- 27 May 2010
NZ government-owned farming company Landcorp may bid for 16 big farms at the centre of controversy over their potential sale to a Chinese-backed investor.
Super Fund shops for Kiwi businesses
- NZ Herald
- 27 May 2010
The NZ Super Fund is "going hard" on the acquisition trail for stakes in prime New Zealand assets like rural land, state-owned enterprises, smaller high-growth companies and iwi businesses.
"Agrogeneration exploitera plus de 100.000 hectares de terre d'ici 2012"
- Capital.fr
- 26 May 2010
La firme française a d'abord regardé l'Amérique latine puis l'Afrique et le pourtour de la mer noire avant de retenir l'Ukraine, notamment pour la terre noire et les milliers d'hectares qui n'étaient pas cultivés.
The world agriculture industry: A study in falling supply and rising demand
- Hardman & Co
- 26 May 2010
We believe that farmland, and agriculture generally, will shortly move beyond the ‘acceptable’ in the eyes of the world’s investment management community and become a core product.
Algerie: on veille au grain
- Oxford Business Group
- 25 May 2010
« Certains de nos agriculteurs du secteur privé ont commencé à investir dans des pays comme l’Egypte et le Soudan. Nous espérons en faire de même en Algérie » dit le ministre de l’agriculture saoudien.
African land interest is opportunity and threat
- Business Report
- 25 May 2010
South Africa, which became a net importer of food two years ago after two decades of net exporting, is developing African agricultural ambitions of its own.
The battle for Cambodian farm land
- ABC
- 25 May 2010
"People lose their access to land simply so that rich and powerful Cambodians and foreign investors can make profit from cash crops for export."
La Banque mondiale accusée de favoriser l’accaparement des terres africaines par des groupes étrangers
- Ouestafnews
- 25 May 2010
Un rapport accablant, produit par un « think tank » américain, accuse la SFI, filiale de la Banque mondiale, de faciliter « l’accaparement des terres » en Afrique
Spotlight turned on issue of land grabbing
- swissinfo.ch
- 25 May 2010
A seminar in Zurich brought together development experts to put the issue into context and take a long term view.
Africa Progress Report calls on African leaders to turn “scramble for Africa” into real results for the continent
- APP
- 25 May 2010
The 2010 edition of the Africa Progress Panel report, produced under the chairmanship of Mr Kofi Annan, addresses land grabbing in Africa.
„Land Grabbing“ – die Gier nach Land
- Brot für alle
- 25 May 2010
EinBlick 1/2010 geht auf die Hintergründe und Konsequenzen von Landraub ein und gibt einen Überblick über die wichtigsten Akteure und Lösungsansätze.
La compra de tierras en África ¿Oportunidad o nuevo colonialismo?
- dpa
- 24 May 2010
El empresario danés casi no puede creer en su suerte en el norte de Uganda. "En realidad quería comprar tierra en el sur, cerca de Kampala -revela- pero el gobierno me ofreció tierras en el norte por un tercio del precio."
Foreign investors pour into Brazilian sugar
- Agrimoney
- 24 May 2010
Foreign investors are not just snapping up Brazilian farmland – they are taking a bigger stake in sugar operators too, tripling their participation within three years.