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Former President Rawlings calls on African governments to institute protective land laws
- J.J. Rawlings blog
- 09 April 2010
"We need to employ some protectionist policies to save our continent from a new form of colonization"
Ukraine's Rise 'to seek' IPO on foreign market
- Agrimoney
- 08 April 2010
Flotation would go towards plans to increase elevator capacity and expand the group's land bank to 200,000 hectares.
Algeria plans to invite bids for farmland
- Reuters
- 08 April 2010
Algeria plans for the first time to invite bids from foreign investors to lease farmland
African land grab not a cure to Arab food concerns
- Reuters
- 07 April 2010
Interview with Wadid Erian of the Arab Centre for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands.
Wafra Portfolio Company to build Sudan's first large-scale commercial rice farm
- Zawya
- 06 April 2010
El-Nahda for Integrated Solutions signed an agreement with the White Nile Governorate for a 30-year lease on 60,000 feddans [25,210 ha] of land on which it will build a large-scale commercial rice farm.
African landrush
- InfoChange India
- 05 April 2010
Countries that have recently invited India, through the ministry of agriculture, to lease land for farming include Egypt, Ethiopia, Mongolia, Senegal, Sudan, Trinidad and Tobago and Tunisia.
Land ahoy!
- Otago Daily Times
- 05 April 2010
There is serious overseas interest in acquiring New Zealand farmland, and some confusion in the rules and regulations surrounding the process.
Japan, please don't go grabbing Ethiopians' land
- Japan Times
- 04 April 2010
Japan should shun this new kind of colonization like a plague, no matter what well-paid city-based officials may say.
China’s ‘African land grab’
- Globe and Mail
- 04 April 2010
People see the Chinese as moving into Africa, kicking poor farmers off their land, and growing food to be shipped back to China for domestic consumption. This seems unlikely, however, says Doug Saunders.
Jakarta's plan for farm in jungle unsettles Papuans
- Sydney Morning Herald
- 03 April 2010
The Indonesian government plans to create a vast agricultural estate in the restive province of Papua, sparking fears of environmental destruction and a return of mass migration policies.
A land grab, or just free trade?
- NZ Workers Party
- 03 April 2010
The economic nationalism and calls for protectionism seem ironic given the fact that Fonterra itself is a large multinational, which in addition to having farms in China, has since 2002 been in partnership with global food giant Nestle in the Dairy Partners Americas.
Development of Agribusiness and Agro-industries in Africa II
- African Executive
- 02 April 2010
Director General of UNIDO: says land acquisition through foreign investors must be carefully considered and strictly scrutinized.