• La manifestation Orange de Andry Rajoelina
    • Sobika (Madagascar)
    • 26 January 2009

    Andry Rajoelina a appelé pour Lundi à une grêve générale et s’est déclaré prêt “pour une transition”.

  • Saudi King’s commitment to help Mindanao secured
    • Business Mirror
    • 26 January 2009

    Speaker Prosopero Nograles expressed optimism that the Philippines will be able to provide the food requirements of the Kingdom through possible Saudi investments in Mindanao.

  • Accelerating into disaster – when banks manage the food crisis
    • IPC
    • 26 January 2009

    As the vicious food price crisis deepens, transnational companies are moving into southern countries on a huge scale and starting to capture millions of hectares of land in order to bring agricultural production further under their control for industrial agrofuel and food production for the international market. Millions of peasants will be pushed out of food production, adding to the hungry in the rural areas and the slums of the big cities. The few that remain will work under full control of the transnational companies as workers or contract farmers.

  • Turkey can attract $9b in Gulf Arab funding
    • Reuters
    • 25 January 2009

    Turkey can attract up to $9 billion funds from Gulf Arab funds, mainly in food and agriculture, the head of the Turkish Investment Support and Promotion Agency said on Monday. "We are working on a big project for the southeastern Anatolia region."

  • Qatar-Lanka ties ‘set to get a boost’
    • Gulf Times
    • 25 January 2009

    Qatar could invest in Sri Lanks’s agricultural sector, Ambassador Vijayasiri Padukkag pointed out. In the Eastern province, he said, there was plenty of vacant arable land where farms can be established.

  • Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques receives Minister of Commerce and Industry
    • S.Arabia MoFA
    • 25 January 2009

    King Abdullah received today Saudi Arabia's Minister of Commerce and Industry accompanied by two Saudi businessmen Mohammad Hussein Al-Amoudi and Abdullah Hassan Al-Masri on the occasion of the arrival of the earliest produce of their rice to the Kingdom.

  • Al-Amoudi plans largest agro investment
    • Addis Fortune
    • 24 January 2009

    In the largest single agricultural investment, Ethiopia’s richest man Sheik Mohammed Hussein Ali Al-Amoudi, joined the bio-fuel sector in a joint venture with Jemal Ahmed, one of the biggest edible and palm oil importers in the country.

  • Sudan recommends $50 bln, 10-yr pan-Arab food security fund
    • Zawya Dow Jones Newswire
    • 24 January 2009

    The Sudanese delegation to the Arab League is urging the pan-Arab organization to set up a food security fund worth at least $50 billion to ensure stable future food supplies, a Sudanese official said.

  • Vocal Madagascar mayor calls for strike to 'reclaim democracy'
    • AFP
    • 24 January 2009

    Rajoelina has recently and repeatedly condemned what he says are shrinking freedoms in Madagascar and also fiercely criticised a massive project to lease vast swathes of farmland to South Korean industrial giant Daewoo.

  • Location des terres : Opportunité économique ou néocolonialisme agraire ?
    • Le Quotidien
    • 23 January 2009

    D’un côté, les multinationales et les pays acquéreurs de terres agricoles à l’étranger : pour eux, cela ne fait aucun doute, ces contrats représentent une opportunité pour des pays parfois très pauvres. De l’autre, les mouvements écologistes et les associations de défense des droits Humains : ils dénoncent le déséquilibre de ces contrats et les dérives inéluctables d’une telle pratique.

  • L’accaparement des terres de rizières met en péril la souveraineté alimentaire de l’Afrique
    • GRAIN
    • 23 January 2009

    Il y a quelques années, en marge d’un sommet de la Communauté des États sahélo-sahariens (CEN-SAD) à Bamako, le président du Mali, Amadou Toumani Touré, a offert 100 000 ha de terres à l’intérieur de l’Office du Niger, la principale zone de riziculture du Mali. La Libye, un pays qui regorge de pétrodollars mais ne dispose pas de sa propre production alimentaire, dirige dans les faits le CEN-SAD, et elle a sauté sur l’occasion.

  • Rice land grabs undermine food sovereignty in Africa
    • GRAIN
    • 23 January 2009

    A couple of years ago, on the sidelines of a summit of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) in Bamako, Mali’s President, Amadou Toumani Touré, offered up 100,000 ha of land within the Office du Niger, Mali’s main rice producing area. Libya, a country flush with petrodollars but lacking in its own food production, effectively runs CEN-SAD and it jumped at the chance.

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