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Land ownership debate hots up
- The Times of Zambia
- 19 April 2013
Delegates demand that land should not be recklessly sold to foreigners during proceedings at Zambia's National Constitution Convention in Lusaka.
OSA’s appeal letter to the Secretary General of the UN on land-grabbing in Oromia
- Gadaa.com
- 19 April 2013
The following is a statement from the Oromo Studies Association (OSA).
Australia-China trade talks stalled by investment row
- Wall Street Journal
- 18 April 2013
Australia's Trade Minister Craig Emerson says plans to increase scrutiny on farmland investments would ruin any chance at all of a free-trade deal being struck with China.
Bakkavor opens Chinese factory and farm
- Just-Food
- 18 April 2013
The factory and farm are located in China's eastern Fujian and Jiangsu provinces. The farm will provide a "significant proportion" of the group's produce needs
Tap superannuation for funds, says Visy director Ross Fitzgerald
- The Australian
- 18 April 2013
According to BlackRock world agriculture fund portfolio manager and director Desmond Cheung there is a "wall of money" that is looking to back the world's growing appetite for a stable and growing food supply.
Hundreds of thousands face relocation in Ethiopia's land grab
- Africa Review
- 17 April 2013
When the Ethiopian government completes the Gibe III dam on the upper Omo, as it is expected to do shortly, large-scale irrigation will follow, allowing government sugar plantations to gobble up huge swathes of their ancestral land.
Unfair Govt Policies Fanning Land Grabbing-Uganda Land Alliance
- New Vision
- 17 April 2013
The Uganda Land Alliance (ULA) has observed that unfair government policies and ignorance of land rights and values have escalated the problem of land grabbing by investors in the country.
Land concentration, land grabbing and people’s struggles in Europe
- ECVC
- 17 April 2013
A new report by European Coordination Via Campesina and Hands off the Land network shows that land grabbing and access to land are a critical issues today in Europe.
Un nouveau rapport affirme : La concentration et l’accaparement des terres prennent en Europe un caractère inquiétant
- ECVC
- 17 April 2013
Ce rapport révèle le scandale tenu secret que seulement 3% des propriétaires terriens sont arrivés à contrôler la moitié des terres cultivables en Europe.
Petition against landgrab in the state of Odisha, India
- SOLIDARITÉ
- 16 April 2013
Please sign and share the petition
Lack of transparency when Swedish Pension Fund AP2 invests in farmland in Brazil
- Swedwatch
- 16 April 2013
A new Swedwatch report shows a lack of transparency and inadequate auditing of ethics and environmental impacts in AP2’s investment in farmland in Brazil. For business reasons, the investment is surrounded by a high level of secrecy, which makes scrutiny from the outside impossible.
Dubai needs food from Africa
- Halal Focus
- 15 April 2013
Pressed on which countries in Africa would be suitable food sources, Hisham Abdullah Al Shirawi, the chairman of Economic Zones World, says the test would be countries where water was in abundance and which were not spoilt by strife.