Reading Time: 2 minutes Farmers’ fields in Brazil and Argentina are among the most prized assets in a new global market for agricultural land that has sprung up alongside soaring commodity prices. Private equity and fund managers at a farm investing conference in Geneva named South America a top place to buy, lease and manage agricultural lands for profit. […] Read more
South America Farmland Top Investor Buy
Wheat Price Spike Raises Food Insecurity — UN Expert – for Sep. 13, 2010
Reading Time: 2 minutes Riots over high bread prices in Mozambique and food shortages elsewhere should be a wake-up call for governments which papered over food security problems that arose two years ago, a United Nations expert warned Sept. 7. Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, said during a mission to Syria that […] Read more
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