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The ultimate crop rotation
- Washington Post
- 23 November 2009
Lured by a new business model, wealthy nations flock to farmland in Ethiopia, locking in food supplies grown half a world away
Ethiopia: land of tomorrow
- YouTube
- 21 November 2009
Documentary highlighting the investment opportunities in Ethiopia, produced for the Saudi-East African Forum.
IFC lends a hand in great "land grab"
- Bretton Woods Project
- 20 November 2009
As the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank, announces plans to increase investment in agribusiness by up to 30 per cent in the next three years, NGO reports shed light on the IFC's role in the 'land grab' movement and flaws in its approach to the food crisis.
Is there such a thing as agro-imperialism?
- New York Times
- 19 November 2009
There’s a whole school of economic thought that says that Collier is wrong, that big is not necessarily better in agriculture — and that the land deals therefore might be unwise not because they’re wrong but because they’re unprofitable.
UAE company leases farmland in Morocco
- Gulf Times
- 19 November 2009
An Abu Dhabi-based private sector investment firm has signed a contract to lease up to 700,000 hectares of farmland in Morocco, a company executive said yesterday.
Zimbabwe farmers a boon for Nigerian agriculture
- Reuters
- 19 November 2009
Farmers from South Korea, Kuwait and the United States have also arrived in Kwara state, some 400 km northwest of Lagos, which is keen to attract more investors and help Nigeria end its import reliance.
If words were food, nobody would go hungry
- The Economist
- 19 November 2009
Investment in agriculture is soaring. So, worryingly, is distrust of markets and trade.
Investing, not grabbing
- Globe and Mail
- 19 November 2009
International farmland-investment standards of the kind being worked upon are much needed. But agricultural agencies such as the FAO are not equipped to establish good property-rights regimes in the developing world, writes the Globe and Mail
Riz Khan: Africa investment or land grab?
- Al Jazeera
- 19 November 2009
More and more of Africa's farmland is being bought up by private companies and countries. But should this trend be welcomed as much-needed foreign investment or is it a new form of colonialism? Join the Riz Khan show on Al Jazeera Thursday 19 November 2009.
To grab, or to invest
- IPS
- 18 November 2009
The 450 civil society organisations taking part in a parallel forum were not won over by FAO's optimism about a code of conduct. "Land grabbing by external capital must stop," read a declaration by participants at the forum.
'Land-grab' for food security
- Al Jazeera
- 18 November 2009
The French farming minister warned these "predatory investments" prevented countries from feeding themselves. Al Jazeera reports.
Was the global summit on food security worth the effort?
- Deutsche Welle
- 18 November 2009
Across the street from the conference, human rights and farmers' groups protested sporadically throughout the three days. Small farmers' groups put on street theatre, re-enacting scenes of land-grabbing by foreign companies, with thugs bearing sticks pretending to threaten the small land owners.