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UAE considers mechanism to safeguard food supplies
- Gulf News
- 26 April 2010
The UAE will set up a strategic food stock as part of a food security strategy that includes aquiring farmland in African and Asian countries
US remarks: Roundtable on Responsible Agricultural Investment
- US State Dept
- 25 April 2010
We need to hear the results of research and case studies done by FAO, UNCTAD, IFAD and the World Bank, so we can respond as governments and organizations based on solid information and not hearsay.
Ethiopia: Land rent contractual agreement made between Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Ruchi Agri PLC
- 25 April 2010
Contract covers the lease of 25,000 ha in the Regional State of Gambela for a period of 25 years, with option for renewal.
Denuncian que el Banco Mundial promueve acaparamiento de tierra
- La Jornada
- 25 April 2010
Más de cien organizaciones de todo el mundo exigen frenar la ola de acaparamiento de tierras de inversionistas oficiales y privados que se están apoderando de millones de hectáreas de cultivos de comunidades rurales de África, Asia y América Latina.
Statement by Qatar to Roundtable on Responsible Agricultural Investments
- IIASA
- 25 April 2010
An equitable shared-benefits agreement can best provide the basis for responsible and sustainable agricultural development, especially in currently cultivated land areas where the yield gaps are large.
Gulf Cooperation Council food security: balancing the equation
- Nature
- 25 April 2010
"A key obstacle to more transparent debate and informed decisions by governments and investors [involved in global land transactions] is the lack of science-based information," writes Surendra Shah in Nature magazine
Singapore boosts local farming for food security
- AFP
- 25 April 2010
Government of Singapore has set up a fund to support feasibility studies on investments in overseas food zones, overseas contract farming and other non-traditional sources of food security for the city-state.
Pour un arrêt immédiat de l'accaparement des terres de nos aïeux !
- Synergie Paysanne
- 24 April 2010
La ruée sur les meilleures terres est une réalité au Benin. Pour nous, OPs et OSC, les principes de la Banque Mondiale sont un écran de fumée pour tenter de la légitimer.
La Chine aime le Brésil
- Usine Nouvelle
- 23 April 2010
La compagnie chinoise Chongqing Grain Group vient d’annoncer son intention d’acheter 100 000 hectares de terres arables dans l’Etat de Bahia, dans le nord-est du Brésil, afin d’y cultiver du soja pour le marché chinois.
Women farmers, peasant movements and land grabbers
- Global Policy Forum
- 23 April 2010
On Earth Day plus one, we need to ask: what can stop this speculative juggernaut? And how can we support the rural farm communities – half of our humankind – who are fighting for sustainable food production.
Bruxelles : Appel à manifester
- FUGEA-Info
- 23 April 2010
Des paysans et des organisations de la société civile, en Belgique comme ailleurs, demandent à la Banque mondiale de ne pas cautionner l’accaparement des terres
'Agro-neocapitalism and land grab' available in Arabic & Kurdish
- Talib Murad
- 23 April 2010
A publication (82 pages) entitled ‘Agro-Neocapatilism and Land grab’ featuring Arabic and Kurdish translations of the various articles on this subject is now available