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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
MIGA and Chayton Capital LLP to support agribusiness investments in southern Africa
- World Bank
- 10 May 2010
MIGA, the political risk insurance arm of the World Bank, will support up to $50 million of Chayton's agribusiness investments in Zambia and Botswana
Cargill's Black River eyes food, land deals
- Reuters
- 10 May 2010
Cargill's private equity firm says it will set up farms in Asia where "there is a huge lack of competency in farm management practices."
North-South Forum: Transnational land acquisitions and rural development
- ETH
- 10 May 2010
The recent food crisis has triggered a rush for agricultural land overseas. We will debate this challenge at the North-South Forum, organised jointly by the NCCR North-South and the North-South Centre in Zurich on 18 May 2010
Achieving water security worldwide - Kings College London
- King's College London
- 10 May 2010
"This workshop is the first in the world to explicitly discuss the implications of the water/food/land deals nexus," according to Martin Keulertz, Department of Geography, King’s College London