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China’s foreign farming policy: can land provide security?
- BICCS
- 24 November 2008
China’s increasing dependence on foreign farming requires the European Union to take several measures.
Countries Resort To Bartering
- National Public Radio
- 24 November 2008
A worldwide food shortage mixed with a global credit crisis has some countries getting creative. They're bartering food for other essentials. Javier Blas of Financial Times talks to Madeleine Brand about which nations are striking deals and what they're trading.
Madagascar: South Korean Land Deal Sparks Controversy
- Global Voices
- 23 November 2008
South Korea has just leased half of all the arable land in Madagascar according to the Financial Times. This has stirred quite a debate in the Malagasy blogosphere about land sovereignty and economic development.
The Breadbasket of South Korea: Madagascar
- Time Magazine
- 23 November 2008
Tenant farming was popular in rural America until the Dust Bowl years of the Depression, but the practice is making a comeback on an epic scale in much of Africa.
What ails Sudan’s agricultural sector
- Arab News
- 22 November 2008
Saudi Arabia is in a better position to forge politico-economic partnerships with other countries with a view to achieving food security. The best partner in this respect is Sudan, known as the food basket of the Arab world. But foreigners are reluctant to invest in Sudan and the efforts made by the Sudanese government to overcome this reluctance have not met with much success.
Rich countries launch great land grab to safeguard food supply
- The Guardian
- 22 November 2008
Rich governments and corporations are triggering alarm for the poor as they buy up the rights to millions of hectares of agricultural land in developing countries in an effort to secure their own long-term food supplies.
Daewoo Logistic Corporation press release
- Daewoo Logistics Coprporation
- 21 November 2008
"There is not yet any discussion about the fee because it will depend on the contract later, therefore the information released that DWL acquired a land for free is incorrect."
Mega maize project in Madagascar planned
- All About Feed
- 21 November 2008
The South Korean company Daewoo Logistics wants to use 1 million hectares in Madagascar to grown maize. The company also wants to plant palm oil on the island.
Madagascar: South Korea corn deal not sealed yet
- Reuters
- 21 November 2008
Madagascar has denied reaching agreement with South Korea's Daewoo Logistics to let it plant more than 1 million hectares of food crops on the Indian Ocean island.
Madagascar enthusiastic at corn deal with Daewoo
- Associated Press
- 20 November 2008
Madagascar officials are enthusiastic about a company's big farming plans for an undeveloped area but say the deal won't go ahead if it threatens the island's unique ecology. An environmental impact assessment was to begin shortly, the Malagasy Environment Office said Thursday.
Cambodia holds land deal talks
- Financial Times
- 20 November 2008
Cambodia is in talks with several Asian and Middle Eastern governments to receive as much as $3bn in agricultural investment in return for millions of hectares in land concessions, according to a senior government official.
Daewoo leases Madagascan land for crops
- BBC
- 20 November 2008
A lot of countries don't grow nearly enough food to feed themselves. Britain is one; South Korea, another. The giant South Korean conglomerate, Daewoo, has come up with a novel way of solving the problem of food security. It has leased a vast tract of land, 1.3 million acres, on the African island of Madagascar.