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Sign the Dakar appeal against land grabbing!!
- 06 June 2011
Final call for organisations to sign the Dakar Appeal against land grabbing before 15 June 2011!
Korean investors lift Ekiti agric with N400m
- Daily Independent
- 05 June 2011
Investors from South Korea have entered into discussions with the Ekiti State Government to invest in the agriculture sector in the state to the tune of about $400 million -- and 30,000 hectares.
Code of conduct for land acquisition and land use in agricultural and agribusiness projects
- AfDB
- 03 June 2011
A code of conduct developed by the African Development Bank that is being used as a guideline for investments by the African Agriculture Fund.
Options for promoting responsible investment in agriculture
- UNCTAD
- 03 June 2011
The G20 has proposed a twin track approach as the way forward comprising piloting the PRAI (first track) and using the lessons learned to inform a consultation process (second track).
Mauritius firm to develop land in Mozambique
- Reuters
- 03 June 2011
Mauritius firm, British American Investment, it is planning to develop 6,000 hectares of land in Mozambique in partnership with Sun Biofuels
Government denies leasing farmland to Bangladesh
- Daily Monitor
- 03 June 2011
“We frankly told them, we had no land. They insisted we sign a Memorandum of Understating with them, a request we also refused. We only accepted to sign minutes of the meeting we held,” Mr Okasai of Uganda's agriculture ministry said.
How the land lies
- Knight Frank
- 02 June 2011
Investors are thinking big when it comes to farmland purchases, reports Andrew Shirley in Knight Frank's Wealth Report 2011
When the Nile runs dry
- New York Times
- 01 June 2011
For the sake of peace and future development cooperation, the nations of the Nile River Basin should come together to ban land grabs by foreign governments and agribusiness firms, writes Lester Brown
Global food crisis: China land deal causes unease in Argentina
- The Guardian
- 01 June 2011
Environmentalists in Río Negro say the Chinese arrival will mean heavy use of agrochemicals, ecological degradation and severe strain on the region's water resources. Some of the land in question is virgin forest that would be deforested.
Ukraine bars foreigners from '$30bn' farmland sale
- Agrimoney
- 01 June 2011
Ukraine has ditched proposals to allow foreigners to buy up its farmland in a privatisation process, to prevent wealthy multinationals snapping up its farmland on the cheap.
Crafar farms just the start for Chinese
- Waikato Times
- 01 June 2011
The chairman of New Zealand's largest dairy company has issued a warning over foreign ownership of Kiwi land.
Ukraine farmland privatization 'only for Ukrainians' - minister
- RIA Novosti
- 31 May 2011
"If we make the market free, then $30 billion will be enough - and that's not a lot for world financial corporations - to buy up all of our land," says Minister for Agrarian Policy.