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Ruée sur l’or vert africain
- Le Temps
- 24 February 2010
«Ces plantations ne servent pas à remplir les estomacs des Sierra-Léonais, mais à exporter vers l’Europe. Elles ne sont d’aucun bénéfice pour notre pays,» dit Theophilus Gbenda
Cargill leaves a palm oil mess in Papua New Guinea
- RAN
- 24 February 2010
Cargill Inc., the world’s largest agribusiness company, has announced the sale of their palm oil plantations in the remote tropical nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG)
“África sufre un grave problema de acaparamiento de tierras"
- Baserribizia
- 24 February 2010
"En Mali vamos a hacer movilizaciones frente a ese acaparamiento de tierras."
L'Afrique vibre au rythme du Brésil
- Jeune Afrique
- 24 February 2010
Devenu une puissance agricole mondiale majeure, le plus grand pays d’Amérique du Sud veut faire bénéficier l’Afrique de son expertise dans l’exploitation des ressources agricoles et y transposer son modèle au nom d’une solidarité Sud-Sud.
Citadel Capital planning beyond the railway tracks
- Ratio Magazine
- 24 February 2010
Citadel's Karim Sadek dismisses talk of land grabbing as an “academic concern”, saying “there should definitely be a priority for the produce to be sold on the local market, if there is a paying market for it”.
Landkom has had to re-think its farming plans in Ukraine
- Agriprods
- 24 February 2010
Ukraine has abundant land resource, only ten per cent of which is currently controlled by corporations.
EALA adopts common strategy for food security in the region
- East African Community
- 24 February 2010
"EAC Partner States should resist the leasing or selling of large chunks of land to foreign entities for production of food or bio-fuel feedstock solely for export, which will be disadvantageous to food security in the region" says the East African Legislative Assembly
China's soil deterioration may become growing food crisis, adviser claims
- Guardian
- 23 February 2010
More radical steps are being taken to increase production, both by the government, which recently approved two new strains of genetically modified rice, and by agricultural entrepreneurs, who are buying and cultivating land in neighbouring countries.
Gulf Africa Strategy Forum 2009
- Khaleej Times
- 23 February 2010
The lack of systematic collection of data and categorising private and official investments from the Gulf has made it difficult to reach an accurate estimate of total investments, made so far.
Forum on land reform highlights ongoing issue of land grabbing in Indonesia
- AGRA
- 23 February 2010
Educating the peasant movement is a key to genuine land reform implementation and the position of peasant movements as strong political bases against land grabbing in the future.
Foreign agro firms scoop up Ethiopian farmland
- VOA
- 22 February 2010
"What Karuturi is doing is what Africa needs, wants and deserves," says Ram Karuturi. Yet 400 Ethiopians have signed a petition saying they received no compensation after being evicted from land taken over by Karuturi.
Wikileaks: Kazakhstan: Chinese land-lease deal stirs up controversy
- Wikileaks
- 22 February 2010
"Despite a December 23, 2009, Interfax press report that President Nazarbayev instructed the prosecutors to punish those who disseminate information about the sale of land to foreigners, opposition leaders have continued to advocate against the transfer of land to China," reports the US Embassy in Astana