Report urges govt to address land grabbing issue
      Current rush of foreign investment into Burma’s agricultural and natural resource sectors, combined with what the report calls an “almost universal tenure insecurity in both rural and urban areas,” will increase landlessness
      • The Irrawaddy
      • 26 October 2012
      Small farmers losing rights due to large-scale land grabs
      A growing worldwide land rush is having a negative impact on the local and indigenous people says José Graziano da Silva, director-general of the FAO to conference at Cornell University.
      • Cornell Chronicle
      • 26 October 2012
      Hunger, food security and large scale land leases for industrial agriculture must be on the political agenda of all parties
      Green Scenery challenges all political parties to take a position on large scale land acquisitions of foreign direct investors in agriculture for the 2012 election.
      • Awareness Times
      • 26 October 2012
      Commercial farming in the Congo not for the faint-hearted
      An organisation called Congo Agriculture, affiliated to South African farmers union Agri SA, had been established to facilitate and drive the process of setting up South African farmers in the Congo.
      • HowWeMadeItInAfrica
      • 26 October 2012
      Groups caution Nigeria, others over land deals with foreign investors
      ROPPA, Actionaid, Oxfam and EAFF have urged Nigerian and other African leaders to guarantee transparency in the management of large-scale land transactions and freeze acquisitions which do not conform to rules, regulations and the framework of the land declaration of the African Heads of States and Government of 2009.
      • Guardian
      • 26 October 2012
      Land grabbing: From Finland to Mozambique, and back again
      On October 9th 2012, the Finnish solidary network Kepa held a discussion on the effects of large-scale land investments or "land grabs" in the Global South.
      • Kepa
      • 24 October 2012
      Australia to track foreign farm investments
      Australia will set up a foreign-ownership register for farm lands, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Tuesday, as the government moves to ease public concern over foreign buyers in the agriculture sector.
      • Reuters
      • 23 October 2012
      Al Dahra to develop farmland in Serbia
      Abu Dhabi's Al Dahra Agricultural Company is to develop 9,000 hectares of farmland in Serbia as it seeks to bolster food security in the UAE.
      • The National
      • 23 October 2012
      Olam stands out in a near-empty field
      The new Australian head of Singapore-listed agribusiness Olam International wants to build more partnerships with institutional investors to open up investment in the agricultural sector.
      • AFR
      • 23 October 2012
      Foreigners may hold tenth of our land, says unionist
      Foreigners own far more New Zealand farmland than officially estimated and could hold a tenth of our country's productive agricultural real estate, says Bill Rosenberg of the Council for Trade Unions.
      • NZ Herald
      • 23 October 2012
      The global land grab: The new enclosures
      Only legal recognition of commons as the communal property of communities is sufficient to afford real protection, writes Liz Alden Wily
      • Wealth of the Commons
      • 23 October 2012
      UNAC statement on the ProSavana Programme
      National Peasants' Union of Mozambique condemns trilateral agricultural project between Brazil, Japan and Mozambique for not taking into consideration the demands, dreams and basic concerns of peasants
      • UNAC
      • 22 October 2012

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