"Investors like Citadel Capital and Goldman Sachs must be stopped from acquiring large tracts of land in Africa because this practice has become a serious threat to the continent's food sovereignty"
- Business Daily
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04 May 2010
The recent large-scale acquisition of land in Kenya and in Africa in general happens on murky terrain as governments negotiate behind closed doors.
Un nuevo informe publicado hoy por FIAN Internacional documenta las conclusiones de dos misiones investigadoras sobre el acaparamiento de tierras en Kenia y Mozambique, y concluye que éste viola los derechos humanos.
A new report by FIAN International documents land grabbing in Kenya & Mozambique and concludes that land grabbing violates human rights.
Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital is seeking to buy Kenya’s firms and long-term land leases as it seeks agro-based raw materials to feed its food business.
- Business Daily
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12 April 2010
Citadel's Karim Sadek dismisses talk of land grabbing as an “academic concern”, saying “there should definitely be a priority for the produce to be sold on the local market, if there is a paying market for it”.
- Ratio Magazine
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24 February 2010
The lack of systematic collection of data and categorising private and official investments from the Gulf has made it difficult to reach an accurate estimate of total investments, made so far.
- Khaleej Times
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23 February 2010
Bill Law investigates the causes and consequences of the great global land grab. Tonight, episode one in Kenya.
The State has stepped up the drive to buy idle land to make available to investors, hoping to snap up vast fallow land across the Rift Valley and Coast provinces and towns near Nairobi.
- Business Daily
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04 February 2010
Accaparement des terres - cas du Kenya - par AGTER
“We are in big trouble with the government of Madagascar,” said Shin Dong-hyun, the general manager of planning and finance at Daewoo Logistics Corporation.
- Telegraph
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14 January 2010
Der Spiegel video on Dominion Farms in Kenya and a Chinese farm project in Tanzania. Auf Deutsch.
- Der Spiegel
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04 January 2010