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An Act to feed 120 crore people
- Tehelka
- 27 Mar 2012
THE NATIONAL Food Security Bill awaiting parliamentary approval should be backed by simultaneous plan to improve essential agricultural linkages as the demand is expected to exceed supply by 2020.
Probe of $50-M AMA deal with Bahrain sought
- Business Mirror
- 26 Mar 2012
Legislator calls for an investigation, in aid of legislation, into the $50-million joint-venture deal between the Kingdom of Bahrain and the AMA Group Holdings to operate a 10,000-hectare agricultural farm in Mindanao.
Is it investment? Or a land grab?
- Sapa-AFP
- 26 Mar 2012
Within a few years, acquisition of foreign farmland has become an issue with plenty of explosive potential for the environment and security.
Karuturi may rope in sugar major for African project
- Business Standard
- 26 Mar 2012
Company looks to tide over land-grabbing allegations, devastating flood for its $300mn project in Ethiopia.
Nigeria: Group calls for probe of Kwara's N70 billion rice project
- This Day
- 25 Mar 2012
Lawyers Unite Against Corruption in Nigeria demands probe into the planned N70billion deal on rice production and processing between the governor Abdulfatah Ahmed-led administration of Kwara State and Vasolar Consortium Company of Spain.
Private investments in African agriculture
- PANA
- 25 Mar 2012
CAADP report urges African ministers to pursue incentives to ease private investments in agriculture without undermining national sovereignty in areas such as land and water acquisition.
Corporate investors send Australia’s land prices up 
- Western Producer
- 23 Mar 2012
Corporate control of Australia’s farmland is beginning to ruffle feathers among some of the country’s primary producers. 
Out of Africa?
- BBC
- 23 Mar 2012
Neil Crowder of Chayton Capital tells the BBC that farming in Africa can be very profitable - just wait till you hear how much he expects investors will make. But will it also benefit Africans?
Ethiopia to accelerate land commercialization amid opposition
- Bloomberg
- 23 Mar 2012
Ethiopia’s government said it plans to clear land and provide infrastructure for investors to accelerate a commercial farming drive in the west of the country, amid opposition to the plans that left 19 people dead.
Angola to strengthen farming cooperation with Cape Verde
- Angola Press
- 23 Mar 2012
The Angolan executive will give to Cape Verde in coming days about 7.500 hectares of land in Quibala district to grow maize for export back home
‘I have no right to cancel Sime Darby deal’ – Sen. Johnson lashes at critics
- FrontPageAfrica
- 23 Mar 2012
Senator says Sime Darby’s contract was entered into by the Liberian government and as such, only the government has power to cancel it.
Land grabs: Trampling human rights and land in Uganda
- International Rivers
- 23 Mar 2012
In Uganda it is the top leadership that initiates the land grabs for global land thieves. Whole communities are being displaced and scattered.