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Africa's great 'water grab'
- The Guardian
- 24 November 2011
Foreign investors aren't just after land in Africa. Access to water is essential – which can bring them into direct competition with the needs of local communities
CGG is setting up a soybean base in Brazil
- China Daily
- 24 November 2011
The project will be the biggest overseas investment made by a Chinese agricultural enterprise and China's largest overseas production base for cooking oil.
Forced Evictions Rampant in Cambodia, Says Report
- The Epoch Times
- 24 November 2011
Women are at the forefront of being evicted in Cambodia.
Final Declaration: Stop land grabbing now!
- Via Campesina
- 23 November 2011
In the past three days, peasants, pastoralists and indigenous peoples have come together from across the world for the first time to share with each other their experiences and struggles against land-grabbing.
China to look to Africa for food: study
- AFP
- 23 November 2011
China will increasingly look to Africa over the next decade as the world's most populous nation seeks to ensure it has sufficient food supplies, according to a study published Wednesday.
Public wants Govt to stop Crafar sale to Chinese: Fay poll
- Scoop
- 23 November 2011
Polling for the Michael Fay-led consortium trying to buy the Crafar dairy farms shows an “overwhelming desire for the government to stop in and stop the sale” to the would-be Chinese buyer, Pengxin International.
Foreign land grab continues
- Weekly Times Now
- 23 November 2011
Foreign investors have snapped up more than $12 billion in Australian farm land and agribusiness during the past year.
Central African President welcomes Qatari investments in his country
- QNA
- 23 November 2011
President Yangouvonda who is now visiting Qatar said that there are a number of investment fields in his country such as agricultural, cattle breeding, tourism and mineral resources.
Farm Lands of Guinea invited to evaluate replicating its agricultural restoration model in neighboring West African countries
- PR Newswire
- 23 November 2011
US company with 100,000 ha in Guinea now looking to expand into The Gambia and Sierra Leone.
Vietnam group starts huge sugar project in Laos
- Tuoi Tre News
- 23 November 2011
Vietnam’s Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group started work on the construction of a US$100 million sugar and sugarcane industrial cluster in Attapeu province, southern Laos.
African farms in corporate cross hairs
- UPI
- 22 November 2011
Myriad small farmers in Africa are being set up to fail by multinational corporations that end up assuming their land, a Canadian professor says.
The agricultural land owned by foreigners in Romania, 700,000-plus ha
- RNA
- 22 November 2011
Foreigners currently have more than 700,000 ha of agricultural land in Romania, representing 8.5 percent of the arable land of the country, says Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.