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Merauke estate ‘may threaten’ local stocks, livelihoods
- Jakarta Post
- 13 June 2011
Indonesia's food estate policy that has encouraged foreign investment in agriculture may not prevent potential food crises, activists say.
Hedge funds & African farms
- CBC
- 13 June 2011
The mad scramble for Africa. Critics say the financial firms that helped cause the global recession by inflating the real estate bubble -- are back. And this time they're being accused of pulling the same tricks with the world's food supply.
Zambeef will plough £34M into farmland
- Express
- 13 June 2011
The first Zambian company to float on Aim is planning to join the market in a listing which will help it raise £34million to buy 123,550 acres of prime farming land in Zambia.
New fear of civil war in Sudan
- IPS
- 13 June 2011
The escalation of violence around the north-south border in the run-up to Sudan’s big divide has sparked fears of a new civil war, but experts contend that the issue is more about land and water rather than oil.
Claims of African 'land grab' spark controversy
- CNN
- 12 June 2011
A new report published this week claims farmers in Africa are being driven off their traditional lands to make way for vast new industrial farming projects backed by European hedge funds seeking profits and foreign countries looking for cheap food.
Dominion Farms and food security in Kenya
- State of Affairs
- 10 June 2011
Most of the current and past conflicts over Dominion Farms’ development of the Yala swamp can be traced back to three structural problems: poor communication, cultural and social misunderstanding and political involvement.
Bangladeshi firms join Africa land rush
- Asia Times
- 10 June 2011
Nitol-Niloy Group and Bhati Bangla Agrotec of Bangladesh aim to invest an initial US$18 million to lease around 40,000 hectares of African land by the end of this year to grow foodstuff, most of which they will be obliged to sell in Bangladesh.
Spotlight turned on agro investment boom
- swissinfo.ch
- 09 June 2011
Protestors have been demonstrating in Geneva against the growth in investments in agriculture that they say endangers food security in many developing countries.
US universities in Africa 'land grab'
- Guardian
- 09 June 2011
Institutions including Harvard and Vanderbilt reportedly use hedge funds to buy land in deals that may force farmers out.
Beidahuang will invest $1.5 billion on Patagonian farms that it won’t own
- Bloomberg
- 09 June 2011
The Chinese firm will finance farming of wheat, corn, soybeans, fruit and vegetables and the production of wine in Rio Negro without buying the 300,000 hectares of land, said Rio Negro's economy development secretary Maximiliano Bruno.
Investment in land opens new chapter in the colonisation of the continent
- Angola Press
- 08 June 2011
Foreign investment in land opens a new chapter in the colonization of Africa, said today (Tuesday) in London one of the leaders of the think-tank Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CoDA).
African land-lease deals need more transparency, Botswana’s Mogae says
- Bloomberg
- 08 June 2011
Large-scale land deals in Africa have been characterized by a lack of transparency, making it impossible to assess their benefits, according to Festus Mogae, the former president of Botswana.