• Land grabbing and the global food crisis - Presentation
    • GRAIN
    • 02 December 2009

    An illustrated overview of the global land grabbing trend, with tables and figures.

  • Mali: Land grab fears linger
    • IRIN
    • 02 December 2009

    In Mali the government has approved long-term leases for outside investors to develop more than 160,000 hectares of land. Local farmers say they fear being pushed out.

  • The African land-grab: Creating equitable governance strategies through codes-of-conduct and certification schemes
    • Earth System Governance
    • 02 December 2009

    This paper examines two failed land acquisition processes for food and biofuels production in Africa (SEKAB-Tanzania and Daewoo-Madagascar) with the aim to establishing more equitable governance strategies.

  • Les visées de l'Arabie saoudite sur les terres fertiles du continent
    • Jeune Afrique
    • 01 December 2009

    L’idée n’est pas nouvelle, mais elle fait son chemin depuis la tenue, les 14 et 15 novembre à Addis-Abeba, du premier forum économique entre l’Arabie saoudite et les pays d’Afrique de l’Est. Une manifestation qui a permis à Riyad de plaider sa cause et de renouveler son intérêt pour les terres agricoles de cette partie du continent.

  • Alimentos: el mercado falló
    • La Jornada
    • 01 December 2009

    Los grandes "acaparamientos de tierras" en África y Asia también son signos de desconfianza en los mercados mundiales. Algunos importadores con recursos –como Arabia Saudita, Kuwait, China y Corea del Sur– han optado por cultivar alimentos en tierras que poseen o controlan en el extranjero en vez de importarlos mediante el comercio internacional. Estos países han cerrado contratos para comprar o arrendar unos 20 millones de hectáreas de la mejor tierra agrícola en países pobres.

  • Even Island States can make plans to improve food security
    • IPS
    • 01 December 2009

    "Mauritius cannot depend on [Mozambique and Madagascar] for sustainable agricultural development. It’s better for us to cultivate our own land to produce more food and leave some land for future generations."

  • Sudan arable land attracting Arab, Asian investors
    • AFP
    • 01 December 2009

    "I think it is not right to sell or give your land to foreigners... until you have exhausted every local possibility," said Osama Daoud, chief executive of the Sudanese DAL group which runs large agricultural projects.

  • Ethiopia: Zenawi on land grab policy that made farmers “cotton picking” slaves
    • Gadaa.com
    • 01 December 2009

    Video: Mr. Meles Zenawi, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, discusses his government’s land grab policy, where the federal government has taken over millions of hectares of farmland from the States of Benishangul, Gambela and Oromia to distribute it to the so-called investors.

  • China’s Centre for Agricultural Technology in Mozambique opens at start of 2010 to boost productivity
    • Macauhub
    • 30 November 2009

    According to researcher, Loro Horta, the technological centres project is the result of a growing Chinese interest in African agricultural resources.

  • Farmland investments and political risk - Venezuelan nationalisations
    • Ag Capita
    • 30 November 2009

    "Foreign governments and institutional investors have only recently been moving into the space and in a very limited way and yet they have already generated considerable controversy and political backlash where they have deployed capital into the emerging markets. We believe that this will only become worse over time," says Agcapita's Stephen Johnston.

  • A grande dádiva de terras: Neocolonialismo por convite
    • Resistir
    • 30 November 2009

    A construção de impérios em estilo colonial está a ter uma enorme recuperação, e a maior parte dos colonialistas são recém-chegados, a abrirem o seu caminho depois dos predadores europeus e estado-unidenses bem estabelecidos.

  • Renta de tierras agudizará la crisis alimentaria
    • La Jornada
    • 30 November 2009

    Avanza en Etiopía el alquiler de grandes extensiones agrícolas a firmas indias y chinas

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