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Responsible Agricultural Investment in LDC
- FAO
- 09 May 2011
FAO side-event in the margins of the 4th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC-IV) in Istanbul, Turkey, on 11 May 2011
Glencore: Profiteering from hunger and chaos
- Al Jazeera
- 09 May 2011
The world's largest commodities trader and major farmland owner is issuing a stock sale, and critics say the firm causes spikes in food prices.
Development agencies support harmful oil palm production
- IPS
- 09 May 2011
Increasing industrial production of oil palm in sub-Saharan African countries, carried out by foreign corporations, is destroying the livelihoods of thousands of Africans and the biodiversity of ecosystems.
Arab Investment and Export Credit Guarantee Corporation pledges to augment its operations in Sudan
- SUNA
- 09 May 2011
The Arab Investment and Export Credit Guarantee Corporation has pledged to exert more efforts to expand its operations in Sudan and to cover exports' security and credit at the level of all Arab investors in Sudan.
Brazil mulls leasing farmland to foreigners
- Reuters
- 09 May 2011
Brazil may start leasing farm land to foreigners to find a way around new legal restrictions on land sales and attract more foreign investment, the agriculture minister said.
ACT NOW! congratulates Acting PM on land grab announcement
- ACT NOW!
- 06 May 2011
SABLs have been used to take control of over 5 million hectares of land away from local people in the last few years. This means more than 10% of Papua New Guinea’s total land mass is now under the control of corporations.
Papua New Guinea suspends controversial grants of community forest lands to foreign corps
- Mongabay
- 06 May 2011
The government of Papua New Guinea suspended its Special Agricultural and Business Leases program which has granted concessions to mostly foreign corporations across 5.2 m ha of community forest land
Global land grab: The ongoing struggle (and a lost opportunity?)
- Water Channel
- 06 May 2011
Are land and water rights for real? How can they be guaranteed in the face of the insurmountable bargaining power that big corporations seem to posses?
Evidence is piling up against acquisitions of farmland in poor countries
- The Economist
- 05 May 2011
When land deals were first proposed, they were said to offer the host countries four main benefits: more jobs, new technology, better infrastructure and extra tax revenues. None of these promises has been fulfilled.
Glencore reveals secrets of success in agriculture
- Agrimoney
- 05 May 2011
Glencore has an 8.7% share of the "addressable" global grain trade and farming operations covering 270,000ha in Argentina, Australia, Kazakhstan, Russia and the Ukraine.
Ethiopia says it may grant additional land to Karuturi Global
- Bloomberg
- 05 May 2011
Karuturi Global Ltd. may receive an additional 200,000 hectares (494,211 acres) of land from the Ethiopian government if its current 100,000-hectare concession is developed within two years, the Agriculture Ministry said.
Liberia: Gaddafi's U.S.30 million Lofa project collapses
- New democrat
- 04 May 2011
The project funded by Col. Muammar Kadhafi with some US$30m to engage in mechanized production of rice has collapsed, and President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is now seeking a new investor to take over the project.