Middle East's investments in African farmlands are rooted in food security fears
    The Arab unrest has only doubled the efforts of Gulf countries to secure food production by buying farmland around the world, as they try to buffer themselves from the economic issues that have destabilized the region.
    • Knowledge@Wharton
    • 22 Mar 2011
    Ukraine, Russia grain export curbs deter investors
    "Politically the (Ukraine) government wants to reassure the population that these traders are not going to export grain while the population starves," says the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
    • Reuters
    • 09 Mar 2011
    In field and for food, the return of structural adjustment
    Principles for responsible agriculture investment are stock templates, designed to deflect the fallout from a growing number of media reports of land deals between investors and governments.
    • Fahamu
    • 02 Mar 2011
    Land moves up the political agenda
    In Mozambique, there has been an unofficial halt to new large land grants.
    • CIP & AWEPA
    • 22 February 2011
    El costo de un mal negocio
    La explosiva convergencia de la crisis alimentaria y financiera de 2008 desencadenó una nueva carrera por la apropiación de tierras africanas, que se mantiene hasta hoy. Las corporaciones de alimentos y los inversionistas privados buscan arrancar su tajada
    • Juventud Rebelde
    • 19 February 2011
    [FSM2011] Appel de Dakar contre les accaparements de terres
    Nous en appelons aux parlements et aux gouvernements nationaux pour que cessent immédiatement tous les accaparements fonciers massifs en cours ou à venir et que soient restituées les terres spoliées.
    • FSM2011
    • 11 February 2011
    Concessional Funding Key to Unlock Africa’s Agriculture
    Experts meeting at the World Bank in Washington, DC, discuss how best to assist African smallholder farmers to transition from subsistence to commercial farming.
    • World Bank
    • 29 January 2011
    El acaparamiento de la tierra agraria: otra amenaza para la soberanía alimentaria
    Algo nuevo está pasando, como explica este artículo: la industria financiera ahora se suma a la carrera para controlar tierra agraria de ultramar, con un impacto desastroso para las comunidades rurales que dependen de estas tierras.
    • Soberanía Alimentaria, Biodiversidad y culturas
    • 29 January 2011
    El acaparamiento de la tierra agraria: otra amenaza para la soberanía alimentaria
    Algo nuevo está pasando, como explica este artículo: la industria financiera ahora se suma a la carrera para controlar tierra agraria de ultramar, con un impacto desastroso para las comunidades rurales que dependen de estas tierras.
    • Soberanía Alimentaria, Biodiversidad y culturas
    • 29 January 2011
    Global land grabbing: Eroding food sovereignty
    Land deals, whether as direct purchases or long-term leases, are being brokered in poor countries by advanced capitalist countries and their TNCs
    • PAN AP
    • 14 January 2011
    Has Cambodia become a country for sale?
    Around 15% of Cambodian land has been signed over to private companies, a third of them foreign, using leases under which they promise to develop the plots and provide jobs.
    • BBC
    • 13 January 2011
    L'envolée actuelle des prix alimentaires présente des risques
    Les risques les plus élevés d'expropriation de terres agricoles demeurent en Amérique latine, mais l'impact le plus fort des tensions actuelles pourrait se faire sentir sur les accords de terres conclus ou projetés en Afrique.
    • Reuters
    • 06 January 2011

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