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Africa and the end of hunger
- Pambazuka
- 16 July 2009
Africa’s agrarian questions are not adequately addressed by simply asking, “What is the role of African smallholders?”
Arab states in 'neo-colonial' food grab
- UPI
- 16 July 2009
A Kuwaiti company partly owned by the emirate's sovereign wealth fund is preparing to join other Gulf states in buying up agricultural land in Asia, part of a global land grab to ensure food security.
APC & ILPS kick off 5-mo Asia-wide Peasants' Caravan for Land & Livelihood
- APC
- 16 July 2009
The Asian Peasant Coalition and International League of Peoples’ Struggle kick off a peasants’ caravan themed: “Stop Global Land Grabbing! Struggle for Genuine Agrarian Reform & Peoples’ Food Sovereignty”
Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform Emergency Action: Madagascar: threat of large-scale land acquisition by foreign companies
- FIAN
- 16 July 2009
Coordinated action towards the president of the Malagasy High Authority of the Transition supporting the demands of the Malagasy people, as well as towards the president of the Republic of Korea recalling his country's extra-territorial human rights obligations in these projects.
SKorea leases RP farmland in food security bid
- AFP
- 16 July 2009
A South Korean provincial government has leased a major plot of farmland in the central Philippines to grow corn as part of Seoul's bid for food security, officials said Thursday.
Land scramble by rich 'may lead to conflict'
- Reuters
- 15 July 2009
A scramble by wealthy states to snap up developing world farmland to ensure their own food security -- especially in Africa -- could trigger conflict in poorer countries, World Food Programme deputy executive director Sheila Sisulu said on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Egypt. "I fear... conflict," she said.
Offshore farms for gulf food self-sufficiency hampered by hungry masses
- The National
- 15 July 2009
Rothschild has recently formed a co-operation agreement with Rabobank, a leading global food and agricultural bank. The agreement covers co-operation for mergers and acquisitions and the equity capital market across a number of sectors including farm inputs and equipment, farm-based commodities, primary food processing, food processing and beverages.
Is a recolonization of Africa underway?
- New Vision
- 14 July 2009
I wonder how many other behind-the-scenes transactions are currently underway in the continent that will only be announced when the deals have been signed and perhaps money has exchanged hands.
The 8th Peoples' Forum in Bandiagara: From Bandiagara to the Niger River Valley
- abc burkina
- 13 July 2009
"Our message is clear: it is not up to the G8 to set development strategies and programmes for Africa."
Existing laws seen adequate to prevent foreign exploitation
- Bangkok Post
- 13 July 2009
Nigeria allows foreigners -- like Thailand's Riceland International Co -- to lease land for growing rice and to run rice-related businesses including milling and processing.
Thailand: Fields of battle
- Bangkok Post
- 13 July 2009
Global food supply concerns have revived fears of foreigners seeking to do farming in Thailand. Some farmers worry they could end up being little more than serfs.
Almarai mulls Egyptian acquisitions
- Reuters
- 12 July 2009
Almarai Company, Saudi Arabia's biggest listed dairy firm, is studying more acquisition opportunities in Egypt after spending $115 million last month to buy an Egyptian company and its farmland