Are foreign investors colonising Africa?
    Indian author and media commentator Anand Giridharadas joins this Al Jazeera programme along with Oakland Institute’s Executive Director, Anuradha Mittal, and Christine L. Adamow, Managing Director of Africa BioFuel, a US company invested in farmland in Kenya and Tanzania.
    • Al Jazeera
    • 25 October 2011
    Can industrialised farming make Africa feed the world?
    BBC film looks at large-scale industrial farming investments in Zambia.
    • BBC
    • 24 October 2011
    Grabbing Gambela
    Short video documentary about a massive takeover of agricultural lands in the Gambela Region of Ethiopia.
    • ASO/EJOLT/GRAIN
    • 21 October 2011
    Hambruna en África y privatización de tierras
    En este video/entrevista, Esther Vivas analiza los vínculos entre la hambruna en el Cuerno de África y la creciente oleada de privatización y acaparamiento de tierras en el continente.
    • Canal Solidario
    • 19 October 2011
    Land grabs: Threat or opportunity?
    With 75% of the world's population making their living from farming, buying land in foreign countries to feed your country's growing population is not always welcome by the locals. Are land grabs good business or is it morally questionable?
    • Al Jazeera
    • 17 October 2011
    China interest in Argentina land irks locals
    Farmers worried about damage that comes with the excessive use of chemicals in large-scale agriculture.
    • Al Jazeera
    • 11 October 2011
    Derechos contra la carestía
    Representantes de campesinos, indígenas, pastores y pescadores artesanales dieron un claro mensaje a los gobiernos: para enfrentar la crisis alimentaria y el constante aumento de precios se debe detener el acaparamiento de tierras.
    • Radio Mundo Real
    • 11 October 2011
    Major pension fund invests in farm land
    Roger Ferguson, chief executive of TIAA-CREF, says his firm is increasingly acquiring farmland in the US, Eastern Europe, Australia and Brazil as long term investments.
    • FT
    • 10 October 2011
    Morgan bet farm in Ukraine before bailout
    Bloomberg's Alan Katz reports on Morgan Stanley's farming venture on the steppes of Ukraine which it abandoned in July 2009. The failed gamble demonstrates how Wall Street firms, in the last gasp of a debt-fueled bull market, strayed further from their traditional businesses to embrace diverse projects with unfamiliar risks.
    • Bloomberg
    • 05 October 2011
    Sénégal : Réportage vidéo de la marche de Fanaye contre l'accaparement des terres
    Grande rassemblement contre le projet du groupe italien Senhuile SA pour l’exploitation de 20 mille hectares de graines de tournesols dans la communauté rurale de Fanaye.
    • Pronat TV
    • 04 October 2011
    La ruée sur les terres
    Rodolphe De Koninck, professeur à l'Université de Montréal, nous explique les causes et les conséquences de ce phénomène.
    • Université de Montréal
    • 03 October 2011
    BBC viewers' questions put to Cargill boss
    Cargill CEO says he's "concerned" about foreign farmland grabs and says "no company's big enough to be a police force onto itself".
    • BBC
    • 29 September 2011

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