• Fighting land grab
    • Slow Food
    • 15 April 2010

    The Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity has joined forces with a coalition of organizations to protest against the recent increase in land grabbing - transferring rights over agricultural land in developing countries to foreign investors - and to denounce its support by the World Bank (WB).

  • ME’s farmland buys in Africa seen as 'a win-win partnership'
    • Arabian Business
    • 15 April 2010

    The head of a 19-state African trading bloc has denied the Gulf’s policy of snapping up cheap farmland across the continent is tantamount to a ‘neo-colonialist’ land grab.

  • Morocco leases farmland to reform agriculture
    • Reuters
    • 15 April 2010

    Morocco is inviting bids from foreign and domestic investors to lease 21,000 hectares of farmland as part of its farm reform plans.

  • Hyundai Heavy reaps corns, soybeans at its Russian farmland
    • Yonhap
    • 15 April 2010

    Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., the world's largest shipbuilder, said Thursday that it has harvested 4,500 tons of soybeans and 2,000 tons of corn at its Russian farm.

  • Farmers may be reluctant to sell
    • Otago Daily Times
    • 15 April 2010

    Southern NZ farmers will want to see cash before agreeing to sell their farms to a foreign company again, having been burnt once by a deal that turned sour.

  • Poor plundered for land
    • The Age
    • 15 April 2010

    Farmers in Africa may starve as their fields are bought to profit rich foreigners, writes Jo Chandler in The Age

  • China investment in Australian farms rises 10-fold, agents say
    • Bloomberg
    • 15 April 2010

    Chinese investment in Australian farms increased 10-fold in the past six months, as buyers see opportunities in agriculture. “Chinese are wealthy and they are looking for a secure investment in beef, cotton and grain properties, ” said John Burke, an agent for Elders Ltd.

  • Brazilian farms sow seeds of openness
    • Financial Times
    • 14 April 2010

    “It’s not common in Brazil to find farmers presenting accounts to international investors. What you can see here is the new model for agribusiness in Brazil,” says André Pessôa, co-ordinator of the Rally da Safra.

  • Conflicts simmer over land concessions
    • IPS
    • 14 April 2010

    The Cambodian government’s moves to allocate vast tracts of land to foreign and local companies are often done without consulting local villagers.

  • Fran O'Sullivan: Fear-mongering doesn't compute
    • NZ Herald
    • 14 April 2010

    Someone needs to put Fonterra and the Feds into the same room.

  • Firm eyes 100 farms in South
    • Otago Daily Times
    • 14 April 2010

    The Chinese-backed company seeking to buy 29 North Island dairy farms is also trying to buy up to 100 farms in Otago and Southland and build a dairy factory in Southland.

  • Land grabs continue as elites resist regulation
    • IPS
    • 13 April 2010

    A year after the purchases of vast swathes of farm land in Africa first drew public attention, transactions remain as opaque as ever.

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