China appropriates foreign and domestic land to build its rubber empire
      Some Laotian farmers are losing their ancestral lands or being forced to become wage workers on what were once their fields
      • Agweek
      • 12 January 2009
      For South Korea, it is 99 years of farming
      The South Koreans have indicated that they want to ship their output back home for their own domestic market, which is overdependent on imports. Officials in Antananarivo insist they will be able to keep some of the new supplies within the country. “We’re very excited because we’re frightened by this food crisis,” said Eric Beantanana, a spokesman at the Madagascar Economic Development Board.
      • Daily Nation
      • 11 January 2009
      Kenya defends plans to parcel out 40,000 hectares to Qatar
      Most of the produce from the proposed project, mainly vegetables and fruits, would be exported to the Gulf. Questions have been raised on why the Government has chosen to lease the land instead of engaging local farmers to boost food security in the country.
      • Daily Nation
      • 11 January 2009
      Vision 3 Alliance holds inaugural board meeting
      Vision 3, an alliance formed by Gulf Finance House, Ithmaar Bank and Abu Dhabi Investment House, announced the make up of its board at its inaugural meeting yesterday.
      • Arab News
      • 09 January 2009
      US investor buys Sudanese warlord’s land
      A US businessman backed by former CIA and state department officials says he has secured a vast tract of fertile land in south Sudan from the family of a notorious warlord.
      • Financial Times
      • 09 January 2009
      Quest to create a new Sudan bread basket
      Unity state, where Philippe Heilberg, a US businessman, says he has secured a huge tract of arable land, is inaccessible even by south Sudan’s standards. Apart from AK-47 assault rifles, it is deprived of most of the trappings of the modern world.
      • Financial Times
      • 09 January 2009
      Betting on the Russian farm
      "We are seeing a land grab bigger than anywhere else in the world, and it has attracted a mighty cast of characters," says Kingsmill Bond, chief strategist at Troika Dialog, a Moscow brokerage firm.
      • Institutional Investor
      • 08 January 2009
      Investments by UAE in Egypt reach $2.9 billion
      Egypt will receive a number of UAE delegations next month to discuss proposals involving agriculture, land reclamation and the food industry in southern Egypt, as well as infrastructure and renewable energy projects.
      • Emirates Business 24/7
      • 08 January 2009
      Qatar land deal not unique to Kenya
      The reported land deal between Kenya and Qatar is not unique. The Philippines Department of Agrarian Reform said in 2007 it was looking at large tracts of land for agribusiness development under a MoU signed with China. The memo calls for the development of land to grow hybrid corn, rice and sorghum.
      • The Standard (Nairobi)
      • 06 January 2009
      Activists say 'land grab' in poor nations driven by global trends
      Walden Bello said that many of the deals were struck in dysfunctional and corruption-ridden nations, and rejected claims the land being signed away is of poor quality, and that the projects will bring jobs and improve infrastructure. “What we’re talking about is private parties using state contracts to enrich themselves,” he said. “It’s an intersection of corrupt governments and land-hungry nations.”
      • AFP
      • 04 January 2009
      U.S. firm to invest in agriculture in South Sudan
      A privately held US investment firm entered into an agricultural investment with a company controlled by the son of a South Sudanese general.
      • Sudan Tribune
      • 03 January 2009
      Corporate farming and food security
      As investment-starved Pakistan puts its 1.1 million acres of agriculture land on the auction block next year, farmers wonder what it would mean for food security and social fabric of the country.
      • Dawn
      • 29 December 2008

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