Food crisis and the global land grab
farmlandgrab.org weekly | 23-Jun-2010
AP | 23-Jun-2010
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.
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PT na Câmara | 22-Jun-2010
A decisão do presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva de propor alterações à Constituição para proibir a compra de terras brasileiras por estrangeiros recebeu apoio de deputados da bancada do PT na Câmara.
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Valor Econômico | 22-Jun-2010
"Vamos fazer uma PEC [Proposta de Emenda Constitucional] para deixar claro aos investidores que podem investir em qualquer campo, mas não em terras", informou o ministro do Desenvolvimento Agrário, Guilherme Cassel.
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Vientiane Times | 22-Jun-2010
The government will allow foreign companies and individuals to invest in rice cultivation in Laos, Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh announced on Friday
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The Land | 22-Jun-2010
Western Gulf Advisory, a Bahrain-Zurich based company, plans to invest $1 billion into the Australian economy, including farm acquisitions, over the next few years.
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Correio Braziliense | 21-Jun-2010
Estudo feito por el Ministério Público Federal sobre a compra de terras no país por estrangeiros derruba a tese de que empresas brasileiras com capital estrangeiro devem ter o mesmo tratamento de empresas com capital nacional nessas aquisições.
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AFP | 21-Jun-2010
La société AgroGeneration a annoncé lundi l'acquisition de 25.000 hectares en Ukraine, portant désormais à 45.000 ha la superficie de terres cultivables que détient l'entreprise française dans ce pays.
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Reuters | 21-Jun-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
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Stock & Land | 21-Jun-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.
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Financial Times | 20-Jun-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.
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IFAD | 20-Jun-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
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The Guardian | 18-Jun-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.
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Antara | 18-Jun-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
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Radio NZ | 18-Jun-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
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Jakarta Post | 18-Jun-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.
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Daily Telegraph | 17-Jun-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.
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Reuters | 17-Jun-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.
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ODDO Securities | 30-May-2010
An economic analysis of land grabbing in 25 countries by a French securities firm. Predicts the entry of Danone, Nestlé and Unilever into the fray.
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Institutional Investor | 28-May-2010
Vaughan-Smith and his team of seven professionals are scouting for commercial farms in five countries — Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia — where conditions are deemed to be the most favorable.
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Institutional Investor | 08-Jan-2009
"We are seeing a land grab bigger than anywhere else in the world, and it has attracted a mighty cast of characters," says Kingsmill Bond, chief strategist at Troika Dialog, a Moscow brokerage firm.
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