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    • Artistic impression down on the farm
      • Financial Times
      • 17 June 2009

      The Sekem Group, Egypt’s foremost producer and exporter of organic food to Europe and the US, is not a typical Egyptian enterprise.

    • Kenya at a crossroads
      • Speroforum
      • 17 June 2009

      Corruption has reached tremendous levels in Kenya. The distance between the poor and wealthy is at its greatest and Kenyans are wondering how to emerge from an unjust system in the land that gave birth to Humanity.

    • Questioning old traditions
      • IPS
      • 17 June 2009

      Uganda's minister of agriculture literally pleaded with the agribusiness delegates at a forum in Capetown to take advantage of Uganda’s extremely advantageous deals for private investors in the agricultural sector.

    • Food security: We need a strategy for rice
      • Jakarta Post
      • 17 June 2009

      Singapore's Temasek is seeking to buy land in North Bolaang Mongondow, North Sulawesi, where they plan to grow high-quality rice.

    • Holding the actors involved in the global land grab to account: the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights urges action from Cambodia
      • 3D Three
      • 17 June 2009

      During the recent review of Cambodia before the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, several Committee members raised concerns about the potential effects a land deal with the Kuwaiti government could have on various economic, social and cultural rights in Cambodia, including the rights to food, housing and an adequate standard of living.

    • Foncier 8 : Le point du jour
      • Bekoto paysans
      • 17 June 2009

      Je me demande si l'agenda du développement rural semblerait déjà avoir été écrit à l'avance par toutes et tous... sauf par les paysans africains et malgaches eux-mêmes.

    • KKR takes stake in Chinese milk producer with $150m investment
      • Financial Times
      • 16 June 2009

      KKR said that the company planned to build or acquire up to a further 30 large-scale farms over the next few years.

    • SAfrica cautions on farmland scramble
      • Reuters
      • 16 June 2009

      South Africa's government will not stand in the way of its farmers investing in other African countries but cannot help protect their investments, its agriculture minister said on Tuesday.

    • Code of conduct urged for Africa farm land grabs
      • Reuters
      • 15 June 2009

      African countries may need to put in place a code of conduct to govern farmland purchases on the continent by foreigners, an agribusiness conference heard on Monday.

    • Africa land grab could distort trade: IFAP
      • Reuters
      • 15 June 2009

      A spate of controversial land acquisitions in Africa is a direct result of lack of investment by poorer governments and may worsen global trade distortions, the head of the world's leading farming lobby said on Monday.

    • Interview: India Yes Bank sees 1st Africa farm project start 2011
      • Reuters
      • 15 June 2009

      Yes Bank expects a $150 million Tanzanian rice and wheat project to reach full production by 2011, the first of several large African farms it is funding. "We are looking at a more inclusive model wherein the local farmers can be organised into a producers company, and they would be the suppliers to the processing facility. It's predominantly not to acquire huge tracts of land."

    • Sudan and China to focus on agriculture development
      • Sudan Tribune
      • 15 June 2009

      Sudan and China are expected to sign a number of joint projects in the agricultural field

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