“Land grabs” in agriculture: Fairer deals needed to ensure opportunity for locals
      The US-based Worldwatch Institute recommends three considerations to help guide global land transactions to promote mutual benefit.
      • Worldwatch Institute
      • 26 July 2011
      State planning to own at least 30% of Ukraine's farmland
      "Although the World Bank is not happy with the absence of companies in the farmland market, we're insisting on our position, which remains unchanged," Deputy Head of the State Agency for Land Resources of Ukraine, Mykola Kaliuzhny, has said.
      • Kyiv Post
      • 26 July 2011
      Govt quizzed over controversial land deal with US firm
      Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives shadow minister Meshack Opurukwa has questioned a contract between the government of Tanzania and a US-based firm – Agrisol Energy – in which the latter is to acquire huge chunks of land in Rukwa region to produce food crops.
      • The Guardian
      • 26 July 2011
      Fixing Pak food problems
      The Government of Pakistan should avoid providing land to the foreign investors and encourage the local small farmers for rapid poverty reduction and food security in the country.
      • Pakistan Observer
      • 26 July 2011
      Exposed: Ethiopia gives farmland to foreigners while thousands starve
      A Survival investigation has uncovered alarming evidence that some of Ethiopia’s most productive farmland is being stolen from local tribes and leased to foreign companies to grow and export food – while thousands of its citizens starve during the devastating drought.
      • Survival
      • 25 July 2011
      Pakistan offers free farmland to Japanese tsunami victims
      Pakistan is ready to offer free agriculture land to Japanese farmers who lost their crops and land in the March earthquake and tsunami, Tariq Puri, chief executive of the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan said in a meeting with Japanese officials.
      • The News
      • 24 July 2011
      Apex launch The Africasia Funds
      The first Africasia Sustainable Farming Fund will be investing in land across the Africasia region and in Sri Lanka to take advantage of the current post war economic boom in the country and the demand and shortfall for basic food crops in the region and globally, reports Apex Fund Services, a UK-based hedge fund
      • Apex Fund Services
      • 23 July 2011
      Draft Resolution by the Pan African Parliament
      Draft resolution from the workshop of the Pan African Parliament under the theme Making investment Work for Africa: a Parliamentarian Response to “Land Grabs”
      • PAP
      • 22 July 2011
      Land grabs, zero sum game
      How can we ensure that women do not fall into a trap of the idea of land ownership in a context where even those (men) who have secure rights are not able to hold on to their tenure!
      • Land for African Women
      • 21 July 2011
      Famine and abundance rub shoulders in Ethiopia
      While millions of people in the Horn of Africa suffer a terrible drought, foreign investors are harvesting tonnes of cereals to be exported to Asia and the Gulf states.
      • Infosud/swissinfo.ch
      • 21 July 2011
      Kilombero boiling with land-grabbing disputes
      Land-Grabbing is slowly becoming a serious problem in Tanzania with the poor being turned into landless citizens in their own country in the name of foreign investors.
      • The Guardian
      • 20 July 2011
      Ukraine's parliament passes law on land market
      On July 19, Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada registered the project of law “On Land Market”. It was brought in by Nikolay Azarov, the head of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
      • Land Union of Ukraine
      • 20 July 2011

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