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Q+A: Will "land grab" rules benefit developing countries?
- Reuters
- 14 July 2010
Opponents of land grabbing say the capital, technology and expertise from large land investments are unlikely to trickle down to poor farmers.
Sugar rush - Chinese firm close to acquiring state-owned factories
- Gleaner
- 14 July 2010
The Chinese firm COMPLANT will purchase the Jamaican government's remaining sugar assets and lease 18,000 ha of the island's cane land for 50-75 years.
The emerging politics of food scarcity
- Treehugger
- 14 July 2010
Growing world food insecurity is ushering in a new geopolitics of food scarcity, one where competition for land and water is crossing national boundaries.
Harawira wants to outlaw foreign ownership
- NBR
- 14 July 2010
Maori party maverick MP Hone Harawira wants to ban the sale of New Zealand land to foreigners.
Film: Good Fortune
- Transient Pictures
- 13 July 2010
A behind-the-scenes account of the struggle of a local community in Kenya to protect their livelihoods, as US-owned Dominion Farms takes their lands.
New Zealand sleeps while land sells
- Frontline
- 13 July 2010
Most other countries have much tighter controls over foreign investment than New Zealand.
‘Land grabs’ in Namibia: Blessing or curse?
- The Namibian
- 13 July 2010
Namibia has not been spared in the proliferating acquisition of agricultural land in developing countries by multi-national agricultural corporations, popularly referred to as ‘land grabbing’.
Voices from the London International Oromo Workshop
- GRAIN
- 13 July 2010
Interviews about the current land grab in the Oromia and Gambela regions with some of the presenters at the London workshop.
It’s not such a long way to Africa
- Financial Express
- 12 July 2010
Jagjit Singh Hara, a farmer in Jalandhar, has been getting offers from Congo, Namibia and Nigeria to take land on lease and start cultivation.
Big push from foreign investors into PNG
- Islands Business
- 12 July 2010
"We have Indonesians and Malaysians coming in and saying we want 100,000 hectares to make PNG a rice producing country," says PNG’s Deputy Prime Minister Sir Puka Temu
Food shortages puts rural Asia at risk of international exploitation
- Radio Australia
- 12 July 2010
The Asian Development Bank is warning the region's rural sector could be expoited by international investors as concerns about global food and fuel security intensify.
Punjab farmers take up Ethiopian offer
- Sikh Sangat News
- 11 July 2010
A group of farmers from Punjab are planning to take 1 lakh hectare land on lease in the African nation of Ethiopia for cultivation.