Land: The new international strategic asset. How Africa is losing big time
- Modern Ghana
- 27 December 2010
The seizing of the poor farmers' land is destroying their only hope of survival on earth.
The seizing of the poor farmers' land is destroying their only hope of survival on earth.
Bangladesh wants to invest in growing rice in Cambodia for future exports back to Bangladesh and has requested long-term land leases for up to 99 years, such as Cambodia has already granted to other countries.
Affected rural poor communities and their allies are not likely to simply accept the land grabbing process in the way the World Bank and its supporters might suppose.
Chinese agribusiness companies Agria and New Hope Group launched a joint bid to take Agria's stake in New Zealand's PGGW to a controlling 50.01%, but Agria CEO Xie Tao said the move was not motivated to secure resources such as food.
Investors are taking advantage of cheap land resources from poorer countries whose populations are even more food insecure.
Not a single farmer has been dispossessed of his holding on account of foreign investment, blasts Ethiopia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
CNN's Robyn Curnow sat down with the head of Tanzania's Development Authority, Aloyce Msanja, to find out about the sale of "unused" land to Korea.
The Diaspora is just airing the voice of the voiceless Ethiopians for those who are on a land bonanza to stop hurting our people. There is a great danger coming. When? No one knows but it is coming.
The New Zealand Minister for Building and Construction and the Minister of Finance rejected Natural Dairy Holdings’ application to acquire Crafar Farms, the largest private family farm in New Zealand
Public forum in Canada with farm leaders from the Global South
The future of Sudan's small farmers looks uncertain
Across Africa and the developing world, a new global land rush is gobbling up large expanses of arable land.