Asia: Land grabs threaten food security

• IRIN
• 10 June 2009

Sam Pov, a rice farmer in Cambodia’s western Battambang Province, is very worried that his land will be taken over by a foreign investor.

Betting the farm

• Fortune/CNN
• 10 June 2009

As world population expands, the demand for arable land should soar. At least that's what George Soros, Lord Rothschild, and other investors believe.

Credits

• Financial Times
• 10 June 2009

SKorean firm to invest $150m in corn plant

• Phnom Penh Post
• 09 June 2009

South Korea's KOGID Cambodia plans to invest US$150 million to grow and process corn for animal feed to be sold overseas.

Russia's ambitious food plan needs big money

• Reuters
• 09 June 2009

Analysts say Moscow's plan, which would attract international commodity firms, might require a more open approach to investment in land

Africa becomes wary of farm deals: land activist

• Reuters
• 09 June 2009

African nations are becoming more cautious in selling farmland to foreign investors, with governments paying closer attention to deals that could lead to social unrest, AGRA says

Inside the barley republic

• Ethiomedia
• 08 June 2009

What we are witnessing in countries like Ethiopia today is an extreme form of the banana republic syndrome.

Indian Company launches agro-investment project in Gambella

• Ethiopian News Agency
• 08 June 2009

A multi-million birr investment project by Karuturi Global Limited, an Indian company in Etang Special Woreda of Gambella State was launched on Saturday.

Gulf states show interest in Thai farms

• Reuters
• 08 June 2009

A number of Gulf states have expressed interest in livestock and rice farming in Thailand to secure food supplies, a Thai official said on Monday. "The countries involved could be Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar or the UAE," he added.

The coming of foreign farm investors…what lessons for Nigeria ?

• Business Day
• 08 June 2009

It is not clear whether a strategy is in place to ensure that part of the food produced by the rich food importers farms will be sold locally.

Draft agreement on Sudan project nearing completion

• Jordan Times
• 08 June 2009

The government said on Sunday that a draft agreement with the private sector on the stalled Jordanian agricultural megaproject in Sudan is being finalised in order to be sent to the Cabinet for approval.v

Mount Kenya Declaration on the global crisis and Africa’s responsibility

• Oakland Institute
• 08 June 2009

It is clear that the proposed solutions by corporate interests are based on acquiring large tracts of land and cheap labour for industrial scale production, serving to maintain the lifestyle of societies of over-consumption thereby exacerbating the crises both in the North and the South.