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Arab farm investment push
- Stock & Land
- 10 February 2011
Former Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, is leading a push to get Arabs to invest in Australian farmland as part of a long term food security strategy for oil-rich Gulf States
Mali opposition party demands details of land leases, warns of possible 'land grab'
- AP
- 10 February 2011
An opposition party in Mali wrote to the country's president demanding that details of contracts leasing out massive areas of agricultural land be made public.
ADM invests in Brazilian palms, biodiesel plant
- AP
- 09 February 2011
Archer Daniels Midland Co. announces a 5-year plan to invest in nearly 30,000 acres of palm trees in Brazil
Libya eyes new investment in foreign farmland
- Reuters
- 09 February 2011
Libya expects wheat imports to dip slightly on the back of an expected 50% rise in its wheat harvest this year, and is eyeing new investments in foreign farmland to ensure supplies, a government official said.
Landgrabbing in Mali
- WSFTV
- 09 February 2011
Youcoulele' dif Pap Sacko talks about a workshop on land grabs at the World Social Forum in Dakar and the case of the Malibya project in Mali.
Workshop "Land Grabbing in Africa"
- FSM2011
- 09 February 2011
Declaration from the workshop “Land Grabbing in Africa – Dangers and Challenges” that was held from 6 to 9 February, 2011, in Mbour / Senegal, as a side event to the World Social Forum 2011.
'Best chance' to end polio - Bill Gates promotes vaccines and food programs to attack poverty
- AllAfrica
- 09 February 2011
Gates says many large land deals in Africa are beneficial, criticizes Western groups for holding them back, and says those who invest in Africa are the ones who are at risk.
Local official dismissed over land grab protest
- Ethiopian Review
- 08 February 2011
Ato Tamiru, chairman of the Gumare Kebele in Gambella, western Ethiopia, and people in his kebele have been protesting the leasing of a large tract of land to an Indian company to be used for tea farming even though there is a severe food shortage in the country.
"Land grabbing is state banditry"
- WSFTV
- 08 February 2011
Interview with Ibrahima Coulibaly about land grabs in Mali
Social Forum slams Africa land-grab
- The Peninsula
- 08 February 2011
The leftist World Social Forum yesterday denounced land grabbing in Africa by foreign groups as a form of neo-colonialism in a day devoted to debates on the continent.
Visionary alternatives to boost food security
- The National
- 08 February 2011
Food security is back on the agenda with a bang, but while countries with money but little land want to invest elsewhere, few efforts are as emotive as a global "land grab".
FNC debates UAE's threatened food security
- Gulf News
- 08 February 2011
The UAE and other GCC member countries should draw up a unified food security strategy with the bloc, and not individual countries, investing in farms abroad to minimise risks of political blackmail.