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‘Foreigners own 74 m acres of farmland in Africa’: What will prospective candidates do about this?
- Daily Trust
- 29 Mar 2011
In Nigeria today, foreign acquisition of arable agriculture land has become a hot and widely discuss issue.
Land as a hot commodity
- Wall Street Journal
- 29 Mar 2011
Higher land prices are here to stay; an additional inflationary tailwind for the already rising cost of food.
Corn on the Cambodian cob suits Korean farmer
- Joong Ang Daily
- 28 Mar 2011
Lee Woo-chang set up a farming company called KomerCN in Cambodia in December 2008 to grow corn for export to Korea on 21 ha. He now wants to expand the farm to 13,000 ha.
Land grabbing: The new scramble for Africa
- Kontext TV
- 28 Mar 2011
Since the food and financial crisis in 2008, a race for arable land has started worldwide. States, corporations, banks and funds of rich countries buy up large chunks of land to produce agrofuels and grow crops for food - or just to speculate.
Egypt seeks food and water security in Sudan
- AFP
- 27 Mar 2011
Sudanese officials have set aside 17,000 hectares of land in White Nile state for an Egyptian meat project.
African land, up for grabs
- Anyuak Media
- 27 Mar 2011
A land grab is taking place all across Africa, a transfer of control unprecedented in the post-colonial era.
Food secrurity fears driving rush to buy farmland
- Stock & Land
- 27 Mar 2011
World food security fears may be driving the foreign rush to buy Australian farmland and agribusinesses, says Nationals' leader, Warren Truss.
South African farmers set up in Congo
- IPS
- 26 Mar 2011
The Republic of Congo has handed over 80,000 ha of arable land to a company owned and operated by 14 South African farmers.
Debating the global land grab
- IDS
- 25 Mar 2011
A new report is released this week to coincide with the forthcoming international conference on the global land grab to be held at IDS, University of Sussex.
Ethiopia: The great land-grab debate
- IRIN
- 25 Mar 2011
Foreign investors are leasing vast tracts of land in Ethiopia
Land Grabs: What’s in the contracts? And an Indian land grab In Ethiopia
- CounterCurrents
- 25 Mar 2011
One of the problems with so-called ‘land grabs’ is secrecy. Most of the contracts that seal such deals are hidden from public scrutiny, which makes it very hard to establish what is really going on.
Mauritius: Racing towards food security
- News on Sunday
- 25 Mar 2011
Mauritius has access to more than 120,000 hectares of farming land in Mozambique and an expression of interest from potential agricultural entrepreneurs was launched last year.