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Uruguayan farmland selling prices down 20 to 30%
- MercoPress
- 10 July 2009
Most of the recent farmland sales in Uruguy can be traced to money looking for safe havens, given the world financial crisis, and not necessarily increasing production.
Japan government mulling providing $3bln-$4bln for food security
- Dow Jones
- 10 July 2009
Tokyo is now preparing to expand Official development assistance to support agricultural technology innovations and improve social infrastructure in such areas, which in turn could help activate private agricultural investment
Senegal confident of Obama help for African farms
- Reuters
- 10 July 2009
Abdulaye Wade says there is nothing wrong with leasing land: Saudi Arabia is already in Senegal and China is close to a deal with farmers' groups to use 100,000 ha for growing peanuts.
Benin farmers pressured to sell their land
- France 24
- 10 July 2009
In Benin, the race to buy land is on! States, corporations, multinationals and investment funds are hungry for farmland.
Land grab Cambodia
- BBC
- 09 July 2009
Cambodia is experiencing what's been called an epidemic of land grabbing. Huge tracts of the country have been granted to private companies for large scale agriculture or other purposes.
G8 backs farmland code of conduct, details sketchy
- Reuters
- 09 July 2009
"We don't know enough yet in practice to formulate a very strong code of conduct," David Hallam, of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, told Reuters.
FAO paper on land grab is "wishy-washy"
- IPS
- 09 July 2009
The boom in the acquisition of arable land in Africa by foreign companies and governments has stirred an international debate between international institutions such as the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and non-governmental groups and independent experts.
G8 backs Japan's farmland investment principle idea
- Reuters
- 09 July 2009
Japan's proposal to set up a set of common guidelines to promote smooth global investment in agriculture was endorsed by other leaders of the G8
Global standards for “land grabs”
- OECD
- 09 July 2009
IFAD is supporting a pilot initiative to promote properly structured ("win-win") agricultural land deals in Ghana.
The 'change we need'? Obama in Ghana
- Pambazuka
- 09 July 2009
A focus on agricultural productivity should not become a cover for foreign private companies to grab land or impose expensive, input-intensive methods in the name of modernisation.
G8 to urge guidelines on African farmland buy-ups
- AFP
- 08 July 2009
The best practice proposal was criticised by development charity ActionAid UK. "The G8 plan to simply start discussing the topic is insufficient."
G8: Does world need new rules on food security?
- Christian Science Monitor
- 08 July 2009
Lester Brown, the president of the Washington-based Earth Policy Institute, says even if the investor comes in wielding impressive, shiny new technology, it will be of little benefit to the small farm holder.