India

Time for attacking double speak
- Joong Ang Daily
- 16 November 2009
I propose that a protest along this line in an international court be taken up to prevent loss of family farms in Latin America and Africa to the corporate landowners.
Ethiopia leases land for agriculture to earn foreign exchange
- Bloomberg
- 10 November 2009
The Ethiopian government says concerns about foreign investors exporting food are outweighed by the plantations’ capacity to bring the country foreign exchange and technology, as well as creating employment.
Madagascar : Nouvelle offre sur la terre
- Jeune Afrique
- 07 November 2009
Après l'industriel coréen Daewoo, les Indiens du groupe Varun convoitent des parcelles arables pour produire du riz. Les autorités sont méfiants.
INTERVIEW-Ethiopia targets 3 million ha for commercial farms
- Reuters
- 05 November 2009
Ethiopia plans to offer 3 million hectares of land over the next two years for investors to develop large-scale commercial farms, a government official said on Thursday.
Les méthodes de l'Indien Varun à Madagascar
- Courrier International
- 28 October 2009
L'originalité de la méthode Varun consiste à mettre en place des associations paysannes créées de toutes pièces, qui lui cèdent en fermage leurs terres pour une durée de cinquante ans.
Solvent extractors talk food security, seek govt help
- Commodity Stock News
- 28 October 2009
In a bid to ensure food security for the country, Indian solvent extractors have sought government support to buy agricultural land abroad.
Solvent extractors want Govt aid to buy farmland abroad
- Hindu Business Line
- 27 October 2009
The Solvent Extractors’ Association of India, a body of over 800 edible oil producing companies, is looking to buy tracts of agricultural land in South America, Africa and Myanmar.
As US and other wealthy nations slash aid, UN warns of “silent tsunami of hunger” in global food crisis
- Democracy Now!
- 14 October 2009
Devinder Sharma talks about landgrabbing in the context of the world food crisis on "Democracy Now!"
Buying farm land and mines as local sectors languish
- Organiser
- 13 October 2009
The UPA Government has deprived job opportunities to millions of illiterate and semi-literate Indians by forcing Indian companies to invest abroad in overseas plantations and coal mining sectors.
K S Oils acquires more land in Indonesia
- Commodity Online
- 07 October 2009
K S Oils, one of India’s leading integrated edible oil food companies Wednesday announced further acquisition of 53,000 acres of land for palm oil plantations in Indonesia. This brings the company’s land bank in Indonesia to 1,38,000 acres [56,000 ha], the largest owned by any Indian company.
Le contrat d’agribusiness de VARUN doit être annulé
- Collectif pour la Défense des Terres Malgaches
- 07 October 2009
Le contrat de Varun est fortement défavorable aux paysans malgaches. Suspendu depuis plusieurs mois par le pouvoir central, il doit d’urgence être annulé.
Indians go in search of El Dorado
- Times of India
- 29 September 2009
The Solvent Extractors Association, the Indian oilseeds industry body, has formed a consortium of 18 companies to acquire 10,000 hectares of prime farmland in a $40-million deal in Uruguay and Paraguay to cultivate oilseeds and pulses. The association says they are hamstrung only by access to finance, otherwise they have it all sewn up.