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Revisiting the issue of “land grabbing”
- Capital Ethiopia
- 27 December 2010
Affected rural poor communities and their allies are not likely to simply accept the land grabbing process in the way the World Bank and its supporters might suppose.
Agria interest purely investment: chairman
- Otago Daily Times
- 26 December 2010
Chinese agribusiness companies Agria and New Hope Group launched a joint bid to take Agria's stake in New Zealand's PGGW to a controlling 50.01%, but Agria CEO Xie Tao said the move was not motivated to secure resources such as food.
IBON Land Grabbing Policy Brief 2010
- IBON
- 26 December 2010
Investors are taking advantage of cheap land resources from poorer countries whose populations are even more food insecure.
Terra agrícola de África é o novo alvo. Mas as colheitas são para outros
- Exclusivo i-The New York Times
- 25 December 2010
O solo cultivável é o novo objectivo na corrida aos recursos naturais. Mas são os países ricos a ganhar mais com isso
Argentina: La iglesia rionegrina planteó sus críticas al proyecto de sojización con China
- AN Bariloche
- 25 December 2010
Los Departamentos de Pastoral Social de las Diócesis de San Carlos de Bariloche expresaron su desacuerdo “con el alquiler de tierras públicas o privadas ni a grandes Pools de Siembra, sean argentinos o extranjeros, ni a provincias de un país como China”
"Land leasing and BBC cynicism": Ethiopian government responds
- Week Horn Africa
- 24 December 2010
Not a single farmer has been dispossessed of his holding on account of foreign investment, blasts Ethiopia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Selling to Korea
- CNN
- 24 December 2010
CNN's Robyn Curnow sat down with the head of Tanzania's Development Authority, Aloyce Msanja, to find out about the sale of "unused" land to Korea.
Yes it is indeed Land Grab and illegal too
- Ecadforum
- 24 December 2010
The Diaspora is just airing the voice of the voiceless Ethiopians for those who are on a land bonanza to stop hurting our people. There is a great danger coming. When? No one knows but it is coming.
Accaparement des terres arables en Afrique : Enda Tiers monde cloue au pilori la stratégie de la Banque mondiale
- Walf Fadjri
- 24 December 2010
Rien n’est pire, selon Enda Tiers monde, que la stratégie choisie par la Banque mondiale pour amortir les conséquences de l’accaparement des terres en Afrique
New Zealand regulator rejects Natural Dairy's acquisition
- Capital Vue
- 23 December 2010
The New Zealand Minister for Building and Construction and the Minister of Finance rejected Natural Dairy Holdings’ application to acquire Crafar Farms, the largest private family farm in New Zealand
Earth grab: No to a biomass economy
- YouTube
- 23 December 2010
Public forum in Canada with farm leaders from the Global South
La terra dell´Africa rubata ai contadini
- La Repubblica
- 23 December 2010
In tutta l´Africa e negli altri Paesi in via di sviluppo, una nuova corsa alla terra ne sta inghiottendo grandi estensioni coltivabili.