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Asian Peasant Coalition protest against global land grabbing
- GMA News
- 11 April 2010
Asian Peasant Coalition composed of 20 Asian country members join the protests on Sunday in Mendiola, Manila, calling to stop global landgrabbing
No 'land grab' in Ethiopia
- Japan Times
- 11 April 2010
Rebuttal from Ethiopia's ambassador to Japan against the article "Japan, please don't go grabbing Ethiopians' land," insisting that the government is only leasing out "unutilized land and some other land holdings by government-owned enterprises".
West Papua: Land grab to displace locals
- GLW
- 10 April 2010
Plans for a US$6 billion food estate in the Merauke region of West Papua has been attacked by farmer and environmental organisations as a land grab that would destroy 2 million hectares of virgin forest.
Indian farmers upbeat on possible LatAm ventures
- Financial Express
- 09 April 2010
India's food crisis can be lessened by growing some of the relevant crops like wheat, rice, pulses and oilseeds in Argentina.
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.