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No nominees found buying farmland
- Bangkok Post
- 11 August 2009
Thailand's Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry has not found evidence to confirm claims that foreigners are using Thai nominees to buy farmland in Thailand.
Ethiopia says Indian firms invest $85 mln in biofuel, paper works
- Reuters
- 10 August 2009
Emami Biotech's project has already begun at Awash Sebat Kilo some 250 km east of the capital Addis Ababa growing Jatropha, sunflower, castor, pulses and various herbs at a cost of $24 million.
South Korea Agribusiness Report
- Bharat Book Bureau
- 10 August 2009
Despite the risks and the Madagascan setback, Korea's scramble for agricultural land abroad will continue.
Egypt: Southern farming
- Business Today
- 10 August 2009
The wheat farms in Sudan & Uganda are not Egypt’s first foray into overseas farming — the government operates a corn farm in Zambia, a rice farm in Niger, a vegetable farm in Tanzania and plans 14 more farms across Africa — but they are significant because they are among the first efforts to address wheat scarcity after the instability of 2008.
Should we rethink our rice farming position?
- Bangkok Post
- 10 August 2009
It seems that the mere mention of foreigners about to snap up our farmland to grow rice will make our blood of patriotism boil instantly. Yet, the same hostile attitude has never been detected from the Thai public or bureaucracy when big swathes of farmland are bought by Thai businessmen in order to transform them into housing or industrial estates.
Pakistan: Govt asked to stop land deals with foreigners
- The News
- 09 August 2009
The government was asked on Saturday to immediately stop all land deals being negotiated with foreign governments, investors, US seed company Monsanto and other agro-chemical companies promoting genetically-modified crops, especially BT cotton.
Wish you weren't here: The devastating effects of the new colonialists
- The Independent
- 09 August 2009
A new breed of colonialism is rampaging across the world, with rich nations buying up the natural resources of developing countries that can ill afford to sell. Some staggering deals have already been done, but angry locals are now trying to stop the landgrabs
Africa: Peasants outcry land-grabbing
- Arusha Times
- 08 August 2009
Small scale farmers from twelve African countries have decided to fight back amid ongoing threats of them being swallowed by large estates.
Include kin’s land in Carp, Arroyo dared
- Philippine Daily Inquirer
- 07 August 2009
“The sell-out of vast tracts of agricultural lands to local and foreign agribusinesses and land-use conversion are now elevated as state policies.”
Delta project reignites land rights battle
- SAPA-AFP
- 07 August 2009
Most of the Orma and Pokomo communities living in the Tana River delta do not have title deeds and a government agency claims ownership of the land, but locals say the land was handed to them by their ancestors.
Janan to lift farm holding in Egypt
- The National
- 06 August 2009
Janan, a UAE agricultural investment firm, will expand its farmland portfolio in a deal with Egyptian agricultural authorities next week.
Probe sought on land contracts
- Manila Bulletin
- 05 August 2009
Two House of Representatives committees were urged to conduct a joint investigation into the alleged anomalous lease contracts granted to Japanese and Korean investors involving vast tracks of lands in Northern Luzon and Mindoro provinces.