farmlandgrab.org

English

New CDC investment to support African agribusiness
- CDC
- 03 October 2011
CDC, the UK’s development finance institution, today announced a US$20m investment in farming businesses in Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and Uganda
Land owners are protesting against lease agreement with large scale investor
- Green Scenery
- 03 October 2011
Since Monday evening more than a hundred land owners are blocking the Socfin operation area
Karuturi's first maize crop effected by flash floods
- Karuturi
- 03 October 2011
The bursting of the river banks of Baro and Alwero has resulted in the submergence of the crop, adding a loss of hope for producing a sizeable maize crop by Karuturi.
“Vulnerable land users must be protected by international guidelines” - UN expert urges Rome summit
- SRFood
- 03 October 2011
“The threat of 'land grabbing’ has reminded us how vital access to land is for 500 million food-insecure households around the world,” says Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food.
Global commodity boom driving farmland bids
- Dominion Post
- 03 October 2011
Sir Michael Fay, his mainly Maori colleagues, and the rival Chinese bidders for the Crafar dairy farms, have one thing in common. In a world where global investors are all looking for safe havens for their money, they see New Zealand farmland as good buying.
Rogers joins board of farmland investment group
- Investment Week
- 03 October 2011
Commodities investor Jim Rogers has been appointed to the board of the farmland investment firm Genagro Ltd
Sun Biofuels jatropha project in Kisarawe suspended
- Tanzania Daily News
- 03 October 2011
The EU lured many multinational energy companies such as SBF to invest in renewable energies in developing countries such Tanzania where almost all projects are on the verge of collapse or shut down.
What Drives the Global “Land Rush”?
- World Bank
- 01 October 2011
This World Bank Policy Research Working Paper explores determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture.
Tilling new ground on Africa’s Gold Coast
- Corn&Soybean Digest
- 01 October 2011
With investors from the Middle East and the U.S., Africa Atlantic Farms is pursuing mechanised farming on 10,000 hectares it has leased in Ghana in the Afram Plains region, with plans to expand.
Preventing foreign land grabs in Colombia
- Colombia Reports
- 30 September 2011
It is very important that the Colombian government takes actions to sustainably develop Colombia’s agricultural sector, without endangering its sovereign control over this sector.
The Endowment and Africa: HMC should disavow investments that disenfranchise the world’s poor
- The Crimson
- 30 September 2011
At the current stage, we do not have adequately available evidence to consider either HMC or Emergent at fault for the purported economic wrongdoings outlined in the Oakland Institute report.
BBC viewers' questions put to Cargill boss
- BBC
- 29 September 2011
Cargill CEO says he's "concerned" about foreign farmland grabs and says "no company's big enough to be a police force onto itself".