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Australian agro-deal in Cambodia carries risks, rewards
- DPA
- 01 February 2010
Human rights workers said risks to the rural poor over such deals are significant because they are regularly evicted to make way for foreign investors.
Ethiopia on the verge of colony of many
- Anyuak Media
- 31 January 2010
The main objective of this essay is to draw the attention of fellow Ethiopians to the issue. So that it stays front and center in our contemporary political agenda, until we manage to mobilize the necessary popular pressure and try our best to stop it from taking effect.
Kazakhs protest against China's growing influence
- Reuters
- 30 January 2010
"They (the government) borrowed $13 billion from China and now they want to pay it back with our land," Bolat Abilov, a leader of the opposition party Azat, said at the rally. “No Chinese soya beans on the Kazakh land!” shouted one protester.
Kazakhs protest against China farmland lease
- BBC
- 30 January 2010
Several hundred people have gathered in the Kazakh city of Almaty to protest against what they call "Chinese expansionism".
Yemen eyes Saudi agricultural deal by June
- Reuters
- 30 January 2010
Yemen, grappling with poverty and a resurgent al Qaeda, is in talks with Saudi firms interested in acquiring farms or investing in fishery and livestock production with a first deal eyed by June.
Nigeria spends N106b to import rice from Thailand
- next.com
- 30 January 2010
Charoen Pokphand officials interacted with various agencies of government involved in seed production and sales in a bid to have access to relevant information and to consider the procedure for acquisition of land.
The new breadbasket of the world?
- Irish Times
- 30 January 2010
As swathes of their country’s land is leased, cleared and prepared for food production by foreign companies, Ethiopians are divided over whether this constitutes ‘agro-colonialism’ or much-needed development
Axis of wheat
- Forbes
- 29 January 2010
"The urgent need is to find countries where India can grow its pulses and its grain, because India's farms may not be enough," says the director of Adani Logistics Ltd
Thai investors stake interest in Nigeria's rice industry
- Guardian
- 29 January 2010
Investors from one of Thailand's biggest business concern, CP Group, yesterday affirmed their intention to invest in rice production in Nigeria, among other agriculture related areas.
Indonesia: 32 investors to put Rp 24.3t into sugar plantations
- Jakarta Post
- 29 January 2010
As many as 32 investors plan to develop new sugar plantations and mills in several provinces, representing a total investment of Rp 24.3 trillion (US$2.6 billion), a minister has said.
Synergie paysanne vers une nouvelle stratégie de lutte contre les acquisitions massives de terres
- Hub Rural
- 29 January 2010
Le Syndicat national des paysans du Bénin a organisé fin janvier 2010 un atelier de 4 jours de réflexion pour élaborer un plan de travail contre les acquisitions de terres à grande échelle.
'Going ahead' with farmland deals
- The News
- 29 January 2010
Far too many questions remain unanswered for the government of Pakistan to forge ahead with these deals.