As World Food Day approaches, NGOs warn of increase in land grabs

• OpEd News
• 12 October 2010

Cambodia “future of world rice”

• Phnom Penh Post
• 11 October 2010

Indian rice exporter Amira Group plans to acquire 25,000 hectares of agricultural land in Cambodia, and is discussing further farnland acquisitions with the governments of Angola and Sierra Leone.

Expert: Investors no longer believe fairytales about Ukrainian agriculture

• Kyiv Post
• 11 October 2010

Foreign investors are already knee deep in Ukrainian agriculture, with full or partial stakes in around half of the country’s top 60 agricultural holdings.

Iran to build agro-industry complex in Sudan

• Tehran Times
• 11 October 2010

A plot of land has been chosen for Iran to establish an agro-industry complex to produce wheat and sugar in Sudan

Africa shouldn't rush into land deals: FAO

• Reuters
• 11 October 2010

African governments should avoid rushing into big land lease deals with foreign investors or risk deepening poverty and ramping up social tensions, an official at the UN's Food and Agriculture Office said

Indian firm leases Gambella plot for rice

• Addis Fortune
• 11 October 2010

Sannati Agro Farm Enterprise Plc received a 10,000ht plot of land in Dimi District, Gambella Region, for the cultivation of rice, pulses, and cereals, from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on October 1, 2010.

Egypt: Seeking to grow cereals on African farmland

• IRIN
• 11 October 2010

Asian buyers likely for Mr Apple

• Business Day
• 11 October 2010

Cash-rich Chinese and Japanese food companies are thought to be the only potential buyers with enough money to risk sinking into New Zealand's biggest pipfruit business, Mr Apple, to be put on the market by South Canterbury Finance receivers.

EPRDF banks on outsourcing food production

• Africa Intelligence
• 09 October 2010

Addis Abaaba has decided to withdraw from the regional governments the right of attributing leases of over 1,000 ha. However, the 2010 federal budget lists no income whatsoever, and no information on this subject appears in the quarterly reports of the National Bank of Ethiopia.

Why we oppose the principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI)

• LRAN
• 09 October 2010

This brie?ng is meant to show the fundamental ?aws and short-comings of both the RAI initiative and of the RAI principles themselves, principle by principle.

Dairy farm sale not in NZ's interests, says Labour

• NZ Herald
• 08 October 2010

The approved sale of a large Otago dairy farm to Harvard University in the United States is not in New Zealand's long-term interests and shows a lack of clear and strong rules on foreign ownership of NZ land, says Labour.

Japan's property sector shaken by threat to foreign investment

• The Australian
• 08 October 2010

Foreign ownership of watersheds or agricultural land plays into the perennial food security fears that are common in a nation forced to import about 60 per cent of its food.