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    • An agribusiness attack in West Papua: Unravelling MIFEE
      • awasMIFEE
      • 27 April 2012

      The Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate is a vast mega-project, a plan for over a million hectares of plantations and industrialised agriculture that threatens the people and environment across the southern part of West Papua. Indonesian and foreign companies have each claimed their share of the land, and offer the local Malind people next-to-nothing in exchange for the forest that has sustained them for countless generations.

    • International land deals: who is investing and where - get the data
      • The Guardian
      • 27 April 2012

      An international coalition of NGOs and research groups has published the world's largest database of land grab deals struck since 2000, offering unprecedented detail on who's investing, where and what for.

    • Malawi: Without land reform, small farmers become "trespassers"
      • IRIN
      • 26 April 2012

      In 2009 Dororthy Dyton and about 2,000 other subsistence farmers in southern Malawi’s Chikhwawa District were informed by their local chief that the land had been sold and they could no longer cultivate there.

    • 'Equality' is not enough
      • Pambazuka
      • 26 April 2012

      Land rights are essentially political issues; but where women’s land rights are concerned, the solutions take on a legal dimension.

    • Chinese “land grabs” in Africa – the reality behind the news
      • SIANI
      • 26 April 2012

      This policy brief gives a brief overview of the available evidence of large-scale Chinese investment in agriculture, then discusses the extent to which the purpose of such investment is to export produce back to China.

    • Land rights and the World Bank Group: Setting the record straight
      • World Bank
      • 25 April 2012

      Some CSOs are using the media to paint an inaccurate and distorted picture of the World Bank Group’s work and they are questioning the motives of the conference, says the World Bank's Klaus Deininger.

    • Growing concentration of land is in foreign hands
      • Latinamerica Press
      • 25 April 2012

      The processes of concentration, foreign ownership and land degradation came to be a central concern of supranational bodies and NGOs that warn of the “negative effects of these phenomena on food security, agricultural employment and the development of family farming.”

    • Foreign investment in the time of the telegram
      • The Land
      • 25 April 2012

      Senator believes a revision of foreign investment rules must adequately consider the changing nature of national sovereignty, in the face of a mounting global food security task.

    • Land grabbing in Mali: Farmers arrested
      • CNOP, UACDDDD, CAD, LJDH, AOPP
      • 24 April 2012

      When the peasants of Sanamadougou and Saou began preparing their lands on 23 April 2012, they were very surprised when four of their leaders, including the village chief, were arrested and taken to the Brigade de gendarmerie in Markala.

    • Twynam's flight to Africa
      • The Land
      • 24 April 2012

      Family that sold Australia's biggest water licence in history has been selling its NSW farming operations and is setting up a new agricultural empire in the Blue Nile state in Sudan

    • Dealing with Disclosure: Improved transparency in decision-making over large-scale land acquisitions, allocations and investments
      • Global Witness, OI, ILC
      • 24 April 2012

      Report looks at why it is vital to transform the secretive culture behind large scale land deals and sets out in detail what tools governments, companies and citizens can harness to ensure that this happens.

    • Meat Consumption in China Now Double That in the United States
      • 24 April 2012

      More than a quarter of all the meat produced worldwide is now eaten in China, and the country’s 1.35 billion people are hungry for more. In 1978, China’s meat consumption of 8 million tons was one third the U.S. consumption of 24 million tons. But by 1992, China had overtaken the United States as the world’s leading meat consumer—-and it has not looked back since. Now China’s annual meat consumption of 71 million tons is more than double that in the United States. With U.S. meat consumption falling and China’s consumption still rising, the trajectories of these two countries are determining the shape of agriculture around the planet.

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