Korea leases African land to ensure food security

• APA
• 30 November 2009

The South Korean government has realised that its 49 million people cannot, in the long term, be fed sustainably without the assistance of Africa’s abundant land resources.

AFSA urges leaders to resist massive land grabs

• Daily Monitor
• 29 November 2009

The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa urged African leaders to resist the corporate industrialization of African agriculture which will result in massive land grabs, and for the issue to be raised at the upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen.

Karuturi fructifies further to conquer overseas

• Economic Times
• 29 November 2009

Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi, managing director of Karuturi Global Ltd was conferred with the award for business excellence in agribusiness in Africa by Corporate Council on Africa, for the year 2009.

Dominion Farms rebuttal to Business Week article

• Dominion Farms Ltd
• 28 November 2009

While Dominion Farms is honored that Business Week saw our company as a global front runner in doing business in Africa, we are disheartened by the lack of commitment to the true story of Dominion Farms.

Rubada gets Sh65bn loan for rice project

• The Citizen
• 27 November 2009

South Korea, through the Korean Economic Development Fund, has extended a $50 million (about Sh65 billion) loan to the Rufiji Basin Development Authority (Rubada). About 100,000 hectares of land have been set aside for modern rice farming under the project.

Could failure be the best outcome?

• Morning Star
• 27 November 2009

Over the next couple of weeks we will see a level of political frenzy let loose on the international stage.

European Parliament resolution of 26 November 2009 on the FAO Summit and food security

• European Parliament
• 27 November 2009

22. Stresses that farmland acquisition by foreign investors, particularly in Africa, must not have an adverse impact on local food security or lead to unsustainable land use; points out that it may also have positive effects by bringing land into productive use; urges the FAO and the Member States to work towards common rules and legislative proposals which recognise the right of local people in every country to control farmland and other natural resources vital to their food security;

Ethiopia: ‘Land to the Grabber’ – the Rise of the Neo-Gebbar System

• gadaa.com
• 26 November 2009

Land grabs: Africa's new ‘resource curse’?

• Pambazuka
• 26 November 2009

Developed nations attempt to secure supplies of food and biofuels to mitigate the impacts of climate change on the food and energy security of their populations, Khadija Sharife writes in this week’s Pambazuka News

Arabian sheik to invest in Sarangani

• Manila Times
• 26 November 2009

Tadco has visited the Kalumbarak Skyline Village in Malungon town, Philippines, with the intention of putting up a multimillion dollar worth agricultural investment.

Qatar is eyeing food investment in Belarus

• Gulf Times
• 25 November 2009

Belarus has fertile land for agriculture and Hassad Food is evaluating different features in such markets like ease of laws

Jim Rogers on why gold is glittering so brightly

• Business Week
• 25 November 2009

"It's very, very cheap, it's incredibly fertile, and it hasn't been overexploited. And if you take in some expertise and some machinery and some fertilizer, you should make a lot of money," says investment guru Jim Rogers of Africa's farmlands