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San fight land grab in Namibian park
- IPS
- 15 May 2010
Demeter International got a 25-year lease for 10,000 ha of Bwabwata National Park, which it will start ploughing in October. Hundreds of families will lose access to the forest.
Groups sound alert over the World Bank's financing of oil palm plantations
- WRM
- 15 May 2010
Groups issue sign-on letter calling on the World Bank to stop funding oil palm plantations.
Virtual land grabs and climate change
- EU Reporter
- 14 May 2010
Expanding the acreage of organically farmed land to 20% would increase the EU's virtual land importation by 30%. And policies to achieve the EU’s 10% biofuel objective would also increase the rate of EU land-grabs.
Russia - Iranian farm investment
- meatinternational.com
- 14 May 2010
A group of Iranian businessmen is planning to invest up to $40 million in the construction of a livestock breeding complex and a feed plant in Russia's Chelyabinsk region by 2013
Cameroonians protest land sales to foreigners
- VoA
- 13 May 2010
Rural people in several parts of Cameroon are protesting a government policy that allows the government to sell or lease vast parcels of arable land to foreign investors.
Donors open the door for land grab in PNG
- GRAIN
- 13 May 2010
Foreign donors are promoting land registration in Papua New Guinea to facilitate a farmland grab, under the guise of agricultural development.
Saudis keen to work with Malaysia on food security programme
- Bernama
- 13 May 2010
Immediate projects to be promoted under Saudi Arabia's Private Investment Fund might concern livestock production in the East Coast Economic Region, according to former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Land grabbing: is the EU the largest net importer of agricultural produce and 'virtual' land?
- Industry Today
- 12 May 2010
A new report argues that the EU has become the world's largest net importer of agricultural produce, and therefore the largest user of agricultural land that is not its own.
Call for papers: International academic conference on “Global land grabbing”
- IDS
- 12 May 2010
The Journal of Peasant Studies, in collaboration with the Land Deal Politics Initiative, is organizing an international academic workshop on ‘Global Land Grabbing’ to be held on 6-8 April 2011 at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
Ethiopia: Land rent contractual agreement made between Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and BHO Bio Products PLC
- 11 May 2010
Contract covers the lease of 27,000 ha in the Regional State of Gambela for a period of 25 years, with option for renewal.
Food security in Arab countries still faces big challenge
- Xinhua
- 11 May 2010
Saudi Arabian Agriculture Minister Fahd Bin Abdul-rahman Bin Sulaiman Balghunaim said at the summit that Saudi Arabia was planning to invest in Algeria's agriculture, like Egypt and Sudan.
Hyundai Co. aims to purchase 10,000 ha farmland in Brazil
- MBN
- 10 May 2010
South Korea's Hyundai Corporation is trying to purchase 10,000 ha of farmland in Brazil to grow soybeans for the Korean market