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Chinese investors acquire a taste for Napa Valley wineries
- USA Today
- 24 October 2010
A growing number of Chinese businessmen are looking at California vineyards for sale, to sell US wines to the booming China and Hong Kong markets.
Aquisição de terras por multinacionais agrava fome no mundo
- Agrosoft
- 22 October 2010
Potências econômicas, conglomerados e sociedades de investimento estão adquirindo terras em proporções inauditas.
Démasquer l’accaparement des terres camerounaises par une entreprise chinoise
- GRAIN
- 22 October 2010
La société chinoise IKO ltd à l'intention de produire du riz et du manioc sur 10,000 ha de terres au Cameroun.
Unpacking a Chinese company's land grab in Cameroon
- GRAIN
- 22 October 2010
China's IKO ltd intends to produce rice and cassava on over 10,000 ha of lands it has acquired in Cameroon.
Convoitises sur les terres agricoles mondiales. Les pays arabes au coeur du débat
- CIHEAM
- 22 October 2010
Le monde arabe, zone dont le déficit agricole se creuse, n’est pas absent dans cette course mondiale au foncier.
Le Parlement européen accable le régime Hun Sen
- Libération
- 22 October 2010
Dans une résolution adoptée en session plénière à Strasbourg, les députés s'en prennent vivement à la "politique brutale d'accaparement des terres au détriment essentiellement des pauvres, l'étouffement de toute forme de critique et de protestation."
Nouveau rapport : Accès à la terre et droit à l’alimentation
- SRFood
- 21 October 2010
Olivier De Schutter a présenté aujourd'hui les conclusions de son nouveau rapport “Accès à la terre et droit à l’alimentation” devant la 65ième session de l’Assemblée générale des Nations Unies.
Laos and the Resource Curse
- Asian Sentinel
- 21 October 2010
China and other nations are making Laos an industrial farm, to the detriment of its ecology
Civil society communiqué on large scale land acquisitions in Zambia
- ZLA
- 21 October 2010
Land is too important to be left to the whims of international commercial interests to overrun the land rights of the ordinary people of Zambia.
Lawsuit aims to annul Saudi prince's Toshka land deal
- Daily News
- 21 October 2010
Groups consider land deal "treason", saying its aim is to steal Egyptian water and create a state inside the state.
Prime farmland in Argentina costs almost as much as in United States
- MercoPress
- 21 October 2010
There is a growing interest from buyers, a greater number of requests to visit potential acquisitions and the best farmland is specifically targeted.
New report: Access to land and the right to food
- SRFood
- 21 October 2010
Olivier De Schutter presented his new report on access to land and the right to food at the 65th General Assembly of the United Nations.