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Ukraine and Saudi Arabia will hold a joint business forum in May
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25 SEP 2012
Singapore
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Global AgInvesting Asia 2012
This conference will build on the inaugural Global AgInvesting Asia event in December 2011. At that meeting, hundreds of allocators, fund managers, and industry executives came together to discuss the burgeoning asset class of agriculture and its surrounding themes. HighQuest & SoyaTech
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17 SEP 2012
Nogent sur Marne (Paris)
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L'accaparement des ressources naturelles au Cameroun
L'association aGter organise une rencontre-débat avec Samuel Nguiffo, secrétaire général du Centre pour l'Environnement et le Développement du Cameroun (CED), à partir de l'analyse du giga-projet de plantation de palmier à huile Herakles. aGter
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13 SEP 2012
SABC3 (South Africa)
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"Bitter Harvest"
On Special Assignment this week we expose a controversial land deal in Mozambique involving South African sugar giant, Tongaat Hulett and government officials in Mozambique. The KZN based company acquired an initial concession of 30-thousand hectares to grow sugar cane. However, in their quest for bigger profits they have acquired additional land of thousands of hectares. SABC
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27 AUG 2012
Stockholm
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World Water Week: The Global Rush for Water and Land
Investment in agricultural land by international actors has increased dramatically in recent years. The food price crisis in 2008, initiated by droughts in grain-producing parts of the world, triggered an international rush for farmland, primarily in Africa and Latin America. The effects on local development and land rights were rapidly brought to global attention. However, there has been a surprising silence on one fundamental aspect of this rush; the water that is needed for agricultural production on the acquired land. It seems that water is forgotten in all attempts to guide the international community on how to deal with the crucial issue of land acquisitions. This is why the High Level Panel at this year's World Water Week in Stockholm, will address "The Global Rush for Water and Land". Watch the webcast: http://bambuser.com/v/2937627 SIWI
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19 JUL 2012
Penang, Malaysia
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Regional strategy-building on large-scale foreign investments in agriculture in Asia
Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP) partners are currently documenting the scope and impact of large-scale foreign investments in agriculture that is displacing communities in rural areas in Mindanao (Philippines), Indonesia, Sarawak (Malaysia) and other places in Asia. The outcome of this documentation will be used by local partners in their campaigning and strategising at the national level. The national strategy building is important as land deals are brokered and land laws are amended or enacted at the national level. Thus, approaches and strategies on how to create pressure points for policy makers need to be developed. At the regional level, there will be a strategy-building process where the platform is opened to other organisations from other countries. Experiences from the three focus countries will be shared as well to other communities that are facing similar situation e.g., Cambodia, Laos, Pakistan, India, etc. The regional strategy building is set to take place in Penang, Malaysia on July 19-20, 2012. Affected communities will be invited to the strategy building. It will also be opened to groups which are working on the issue and are willing to collaborate with PAN AP and its partners. Collective campaign plans at regional level are expected to emerge from this meeting, as well as exchanges of strategies on campaigning and raising awareness on land grabbing that have worked for other communities. PAN AP
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09 JUL 2012
Jakarta
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Séminaire et atelier international sur la Réforme agraire au XXIème siècle : Enjeux et Avenir
La Via Campesina et la Campagne mondiale pour la Réforme agraire - Jakarta, Indonésie, 9-16 juillet 2012 La Via Campesina et la Campagne mondiale pour la Réforme agraire
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04 JUL 2012
Kassel
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ICDD Annual Thematic Conference
The International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD) Annual Thematic Conference at the University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany, 4-6 July 2012, is on “The Food Crisis: Implications for Decent Work in Rural and Urban Areas”. There will be several panels on land grabbing and the financialisation of food and agriculture. University of Kassel
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30 JUN 2012
ARTE (FR/DE)
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Quand le profit rend gourmand : Les multinationales, nouvelles puissances coloniales
Emission de Metropolis sur ARTE (FR/DE) - 30-6-2012 - 14:45 ARTE
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19 JUN 2012
Rio
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Accaparement des terres : Se défendre ou renoncer à la souverainté alimentaire !
ENDA PRONAT et ses partenaires à RIO+20 vous invitent, le 19 juin 2012, 11h30-13h30. ENDA Pronat et partenaires
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11 JUN 2012
The Hague
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Global land grabbing: towards broader and deeper theoretical and empirical perspectives
A day-long Colloquium : 11 June 2012, 9:00 to 18:00 hrs ISS
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Uganda: Palm oil plantation expansion
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Propietarios y arrendatarios, los dueños del agro
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Nigeria: Taraba State land grab: A recipe for disaster
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Vermont puts $35 million into agriculture fund
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