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	<title>2nd Global Large Scale Farm Forum</title>
	<link>http://www.worldgrainstrade.com/largescalefarm</link>
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		<title>Ethiopia Plans to Rent out Land for Cash Crops Production</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ethiopia intends to lease out 3 million hectares of land for private investment over the next 5 years. This forms part of the government’s strategy to encourage foreign exchange and inject healthy economic activity into the country. The abundance of available land area for large scale farming is likely to attract international players seeking good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worldgrainstrade.com/largescalefarm/2010/11/10/ethiopia-plans-to-rent-out-land-for-cash-crops-production/</link>
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		<title>New Zealand: “Extra Flexibility” for Foreign Investment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Government has tightened foreign investment rules around the potential sale of big chunks of farmland to overseas buyers in response to public concerns over the bid for Crafar farms. Announcing the results of a long awaited review of the overseas investment rules and legislation, finance minister Bill English said the Government had decided against [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worldgrainstrade.com/largescalefarm/2010/10/25/new-zealand-%e2%80%9cextra-flexibility%e2%80%9d-for-foreign-investment/</link>
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		<title>Is Africa the New Global Source for Food Security?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Agricultural investors are turning their attention to Africa, which offers plenty of arable land yet has long suffered from underdevelopment. Not only is the land one-tenth the price of Asia, but its key property is its access to water resources. African regions such as Ethiopia are exploring how land deals will help to reverse the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worldgrainstrade.com/largescalefarm/2010/10/11/is-africa-the-new-global-source-for-food-security/</link>
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		<title>Indonesia Invites Investors to Take Up Agricultural Investments in Large Scale Farm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Indonesia expects a six percent rise in its milled rice harvest this year, leading to a 2 million tonnes surplus, and aims to attract Gulf Arab investors to develop &#8220;sleeping land&#8221;, Agriculture Minister Suswono said. The agriculture minister met businessmen from the Gulf Arab country and discussed agricultural business opportunities in Indonesia. Indonesia has over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worldgrainstrade.com/largescalefarm/2010/09/22/indonesia-invites-investors-to-take-up-agricultural-investments-in-large-scale-farm/</link>
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		<title>ADB to discuss challenges pertinent to food security issues and opportunities in farm investment at 2nd Global Large Scale Farm Forum.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MANILA &#8211; ASIA and the Pacific, home to two-thirds of the world&#8217;s one billion hungry people, need increased investment in agriculture of US$120 billion (S$166 billion) a year for the next 40 years to contain hunger and future spikes in food prices, United Nations and Asian Development Bank officials said on Wednesday. They said agricultural [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worldgrainstrade.com/largescalefarm/2010/09/13/adb-to-discuss-challenges-pertinent-to-food-security-issues-and-opportunities-in-farm-investment-at-2nd-global-large-scale-farm-forum/</link>
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		<title>Agriculture, ethanol, bio-diesel, sugar and other producers and forest plantation growers attracted to sites in Cambodia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cambodia has quietly started to turn up on the agendas of major agriculture, ethanol, bio-diesel, sugar and other producers and forest plantation growers as an attractive and interesting site to locate projects. Cambodia has the lowest cost agricultural land in the region with figures that are substantially cheaper than its neighbours Thailand, Vietnam or Malaysia.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worldgrainstrade.com/largescalefarm/2010/09/13/agriculture-ethanol-bio-diesel-sugar-and-other-producers-and-forest-plantation-growers-attracted-to-sites-in-cambodia/</link>
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		<title>Post Event Photos in Video Clip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In April this year, Large Scale Farming in Africa organized by CMT saw participants from all over the world gathered in Cairo, Egypt to look at the opportunities, risk management and financing solutions in investing in large scale farming in Africa. Here&#8217;s a short video clip of the Cairo event in April 2010. Large Scale [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worldgrainstrade.com/largescalefarm/2010/08/02/post-event-photos-in-video-clip/</link>
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		<title>Increasing Agricultural Productivity in Africa is top priority! Experts share latest trends at Large Scale Farming in Africa Conference in Cairo.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quiet – and green – revolution is already growing in Africa, led by scientists, farmers and politicians. Scientists are developing new and improved crop varieties. The continent’s farmers are putting into practice techniques like drip irrigation. African governments are making transforming agriculture a top priority with fertilizer subsidies and other beneficial policies: “In Tanzania, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worldgrainstrade.com/largescalefarm/2010/04/08/increasing-agricultural-productivity-in-africa-is-top-priority-experts-share-latest-trends-at-large-scale-farming-in-africa-conference-in-cairo/</link>
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		<title>Foreign agro firms turn to Ethiopian farmland! Ethiopian regulator to share investment opportunities at Large Scale Farming in Africa conference.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ethiopia is betting that the World Bank is right when it says investing in agriculture is one of the most effective ways to speed economic development in Africa. To breathe new life into their stagnant agriculture sector, Ethiopia is wooing foreign firms with offers to lease huge tracts of land at rock bottom prices according [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worldgrainstrade.com/largescalefarm/2010/03/11/foreign-agro-firms-turn-to-ethiopian-farmland-ethiopian-regulator-to-share-investment-opportunities-at-large-scale-farming-in-africa-conference/</link>
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		<title>Conférence internationale sur les opportunités et des défis de l’agriculture à grande échelle en Afrique (Large Scale Farming in Africa)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Les investissements dans l&#8217;agriculture en Afrique ont connu récemment une croissance remarquable, plusieurs sociétés privées d’actions injectant des fonds importants dans le secteur agroalimentaire de l&#8217;Afrique. À la lumière des opportunités d’investissements prometteurs, une conférence internationale ayant reçu le patronage de Son Excellence Amin Abaza, ministre égyptien de l&#8217;Agriculture et de la Mise en valeur [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.worldgrainstrade.com/largescalefarm/2010/02/12/conference-internationale-sur-les-opportunites-et-des-defis-de-l%e2%80%99agriculture-a-grande-echelle-en-afrique-large-scale-farming-in-africa/</link>
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