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Summit urges modernisation, not westernisation, of land sector
- World Bank
- 30 April 2010
Radical economic, structural and social change may be spawned by growing demand for land in certain countries, and so may love affairs, says the World Bank.
El Banco Mundial y el acaparamiento de tierras
- Tercera Información
- 29 April 2010
Esta advertencia se hizo plausible cuando el Banco Mundial lanzó la noticia en un encuentro en Washington el 26 y 27 de abril. Durante el acto, anunció sus compromisos voluntarios para proteger a largo plazo los derechos, los modos de vida y los recursos de estos continentes durante los procesos de adquisición de tierras por parte de inversores extranjeros.
We will not stand for the grab for our land!
- ABN
- 29 April 2010
African civil society claims that the voluntary guidelines will do nothing to prevent the continued threat to food security, forests, and the rights of African rural and indigenous communities to live on their land and feed themselves.
Food and water drive Africa land grab
- UPI
- 29 April 2010
As African leaders, many out to line their own pockets, sign away their people's land to foreigners, the continent's people face not having enough food to eat.
WB’s seven principles are seven deadly sins of global landgrabbing and against farmers’ interests
- Asian Peasant Coalition
- 29 April 2010
The Asian Peasant Coalition and Peasant Movement of the Philippines slam World Bank’s “seven principles”.
Agribusiness opportunities in South America
- IndusLatin
- 29 April 2010
Video of a speech by Dave Ramaswamy of Allied Venture about the opportunities for India to outsource its agriculture to Latin America.
Senator seeks investment from Qatar in Australia
- Gulf Times
- 29 April 2010
Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund agricultural company launched Hassad Australia last year, aimed at ensuring that livestock and grain needs for Qatar, from Australian farmland, are met.
Let's welcome Japanese investors
- Japan Times
- 29 April 2010
Recently, Kanayo Nwanze, head of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, told a news conference: "It is the wrong language to call them land grabs. They are investments in farmland--like investments in oil exploration."
Saudi looks to Australia for secure food supply
- The National
- 28 April 2010
Companies from the kingdom are meeting with representatives of the state of Western Australia to discuss buying equity in farms and investing in the wheat supply chain.
Middle East still keen to snap up foreign farmland
- Reuters
- 28 April 2010
Members of the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development , undeterred by low world wheat prices, plan a fresh wave of deals to lease farmland abroad,
La Banque Mondiale et l’accaparement de terres
- Tlaxcala
- 28 April 2010
La lutte contre l’accaparement de terres a au Mexique une longue histoire. Le rejet du “Procede” dans les communautés indigènes, l’occupation de grandes propriétés au Chiapas à la suite du soulèvement zapatiste, la résistance des paysans d’Atenco et tant d’autres conflits montrent que l’initiative de la Banque Mondiale dans notre pays ne passera pas.
Saudis eye farmland investment in Algeria: minister
- Reuters
- 28 April 2010
Saudi Arabian investors are looking at opportunities to buy into farmland in Algeria, says the Saudi Agriculture Minister.