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Qatar Supports Agriculture and Food Security in Arab and Islamic Countries
- QNA
- 29 October 2010
Qatar gives special attention to investments in Sudan in agricultural fields and livestock.
Singapore's Wilmar eyes Aust's Sucrogen for Papua sugar project
- Asia Pulse
- 29 October 2010
Wilmar is eyeing Indonesia's Papua Province for a massive cane growing project.
The right to food: Corporate, foreign gov’t land grab causing hunger in poor countries
- Democracy Now!
- 28 October 2010
Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, and Smita Narula, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, discuss land grabbing on Democracy Now!
Forerunning new international decision-making on land issues?
- FIAN
- 28 October 2010
A report on the CFS land discussions, Rome, October 8-16, 2010
CHRGJ report calls for rights protections in global land rush
- CHRGJ
- 28 October 2010
Urges transparency and regulation to protect rights, prevent further food insecurity.
Private sector interest grows in African farming
- WSJ
- 28 October 2010
Mounting concern over security of food supplies is spurring a wave of private-sector investment in Africa.
Karuturi tractors make big splash On Bole Road
- Horizon Ethiopia
- 28 October 2010
Karuturi is perhaps the poster child for the big land grabs that have characterized large scale agricultural investment in Ethiopia
Africa's great land grab
- BBC
- 27 October 2010
Recent years have seen an increasing number of foreign governments acquiring vast tracts of land in Africa for their own use - some say with little or no benefit to Africa.
Land grabbing – a killing blow to the fight against poverty in Africa
- APA
- 27 October 2010
Oxfam concerned that land grabbing not being addressed adequately and with enough of a sense of urgency.
The 40-year food outlook
- Daily Reckoning
- 27 October 2010
Farmland is a compelling way to capitalize on the coming bull market in agricultural commodities, but it’s a high-risk proposition.
Ethiopia plans to rent out Belgium-sized land area to produce cash crops
- Bloomberg
- 26 October 2010
“If we get money [from renting out our land] we can buy food anywhere. Then we can solve [Ethiopia's] food problem,” says Abera Deressa, minister of state for agriculture
Defending the commons, territories and the right to food and water
- LRAN
- 26 October 2010
LRAN briefing paper series, October 2010