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UAE remains vulnerable to high food price
- Emirates 24/7
- 23 November 2010
Sudanese officials say the “Zayed Project” is among the largest farm ventures launched by the UAE in Sudan, with investment of $60 million.
Australia to examine foreign takeovers
- WSJ
- 23 November 2010
Australia's center-left Labor government said Tuesday it will examine foreign ownership of the country's rural land and agricultural food production in response to a spate of takeovers that have triggered anxiety about job losses and broader concerns about food security.
[Russia] Acquisition of land for agricultural purposes – Legal aspects
- Moscow Times
- 23 November 2010
One of the conditions for major agricultural holdings with significant assets in Russia entering the securities market through the performance of an IPO and SPO is the confirmation of their rights to use the land for agricultural production.
Bahrain: Securing our food supplies
- Gulf Daily News
- 22 November 2010
Private investments are being pumped into several countries to produce fruit, vegetables, rice and corn and meet Bahrain's demand for these commodities
Sudan targets food self-sufficiency in 5 years
- Reuters
- 22 November 2010
Government and private sector are creating pilot farms as an inventive to investors to either come and buy existing yielding projects, expand them or to run them as joint public-private ventures.
Kolongotomo Farmers Forum on land grabs in Mali : Kolongo Appeal
- Kolongotomo Farmer Forum
- 20 November 2010
Public forum calls for suspension of foreign land grabs in the Office du Niger, Mali.
Georgia calling on African farmers
- ABN
- 19 November 2010
The Transvaal Agricultural Union believes as many as a thousand skilled South African farmers could go to plough their own furrow in Georgia where the government is offering them 80,000 ha
Keep farms Kiwi: Fonterra
- Business Day
- 18 November 2010
New Zealand's need for overseas capital does not mean giving away control or ownership of farms, says Fonterra chairman.
Answers to the global food crisis
- YouTube
- 18 November 2010
Anuradha Mittal talks about land grabbing
Via Campesina action against land grabbing
- Via Campesina
- 17 November 2010
Video of Via Campesina action at the FAO headquarters in October 2010
Sojitz plans to start producing soybeans in Argentina
- Bloomberg
- 17 November 2010
Sojitz will lease 11,000 hectares of farmland cultivating soybeans, corn, wheat and other crops in the Pampas region and may expand to 200,000 hectares.
Abu Dhabi moves to secure food supply
- Zawya.com
- 17 November 2010
Abu Dhabi Sources will be going up against well established trading houses, including Glencore, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus.