Efficient agriculture needs “concentrated land ownership,” says President Viktor Yanukovych.
Corporations and bankers do not believe in farming as a way of life; they believe in farming as a very profitable business that they control. Their goal is not to improve family farming in Africa, but to eradicate it.
An interview with Mamy Rakotondrainibe, an activist with the Collectif pour la Défense des Terres Malgaches, about the struggle against land grabbing in Madagascar.
- farmlandgrab.org
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06 April 2011
New research presented at a major conference on global land grabbing, being held at IDS, reveals that the true extent of deals being struck for land in Africa is far greater than reported.
- Institute of Development Studies
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06 April 2011
News that the Russian government is working with Goldman Sachs to set up a $10 billion private equity fund, part of which will be allocated to agribusiness, underscores that Russian agriculture is again on investors’ minds.
- Moscow Times
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06 April 2011
This paper analyses the shifting role of South African farmers, agribusiness and capital elsewhere in the Southern African region and the rest of the continent.
This article details several new production and investment models developed in South Africa. According to the role of this country in the land grab rush, these models could become the norm.
- Land Deal Politics Initiative
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06 April 2011
This paper highlights the role played by national-level land politics and domestic elites using material drawn from interviews with government officials, investors, and civil society organizations in Mozambique.
The cooperation in infrastructure and food processing sectors could fuel growth.
It appears that the Bomi County operations of Sime Darby are being hindered as locals there are reportedly holding back lands leased by the government of Liberia to the company.
- Liberian Observer
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05 April 2011
The Republic of Dagestan will provide the US company with 100,000 hectares of land in Nogai district for a project to produce and process sugar beets and vegetables.
If a similar case arises when land invasions happened during the time that a bilateral investment agreement has been signed, then the outcome in South Africa might be quite different, says South African lawyer
- SW Radio Africa
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05 April 2011