Wikileaks: Kuwaiti food security: Less than meets the eye...
- Wikileaks
- 15 December 2009
US embassy in Kuwait reports on discussions with Kuwaiti officials on acquiring farmland overseas for food security or profit
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Est-il opportun ou non de louer des terres africaines à des fins agricoles à des étrangers ?
- Le faso.net
- 15 December 2009
Il n'y a pas de mal à louer nos terres en Afrique ? Ou stade suprême de l'aliénation du monde rural ?
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Kazakhstan not to sell land to China - PM Karim Massimov
- Kazinform
- 14 December 2009
Kazakhstan will not "sell" land to China, Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov has announced
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Kazakhs protest alleged Chinese plan to rent farmland
- RFE/RL
- 14 December 2009
Dozens of Kazakh activists staged a protest today in front of the Chinese Embassy in Almaty against the planned leasing of Kazakh land to China, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.
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Philippines: Mideast farm firms eye investment tie-up here
- Business Mirror
- 14 December 2009
No less than 4,000 hectares in the Davao region have been identified by Middle Eastern-based companies to grow their products.
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UN gathers experts to help strengthen agriculture in poor nations, tackle food shortages
- UN News Centre
- 14 December 2009
The United Nations agency that promotes commerce to fight poverty kicked off a meeting today aimed at finding ways in which trade, investment and technology transfers between developing countries – so-called “South-South” cooperation – can improve farming to boost food security in poorer nations.
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Chinese agricultural investment in Mozambique to feed China
- Macauhub
- 14 December 2009
The launch in Mozambique of the Chinese Centre for Agricultural Technology will serve to meet demand for food from the Chinese population, said Emeka Chiakwelu, director of Afripol-African Centre for Economic and Political Strategy.The launch in Mozambique of the Chinese Centre for Agricultural Technology will serve to meet demand for food from the Chinese population, said Emeka Chiakwelu, director of Afripol-African Centre for Economic and Political Strategy.
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UNCTAD: South–South and triangular cooperation for sustainable agriculture development and food security in developing countries
- UNCTAD
- 14 December 2009
UNCTAD is hosting a meeting on South-South cooperation in agricultural investment, where land grabbing is on the agenda
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Le land grabbing : une pratique d’une nouvelle ampleur
- Affaires Stratégiques
- 14 December 2009
Le risque majeur de cette « mondialisation » des terres agricoles est la disparition de l’agriculture paysanne dans des pays qui ne jouissent pas de la sécurité alimentaire, comme au Pakistan, au Cambodge, aux Philippines, à Madagascar, au Soudan, en Ethiopie ou encore au Mali.
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China, World Bank plan industrial development zones for Africa
- Café Sentido
- 14 December 2009
In the Democratic Republic of Congo —a desperately poor country whose abundance of natural resources has made it the site of a catastrophic regional proxy war in which 5 million lives have been lost— China has secured a lease for 50% more land than the entire nation devotes to growing corn, its staple food, for 66 million of its own people.
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Nigeria, Thailand partner on rice production
- This Day
- 14 December 2009
The cooperation will be in the establishment of rice farms by the Thais in Nigeria’s Free Trade Zones.
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Saudi sees progress in Africa farm investments
- Reuters
- 13 December 2009
"Some progress has been achieved with some African countries" to create farmland investment opportunities, Saudi Industry & Trade Minister Abdullah bin Ahmad Zainal said. He added more talks would be held with countries in southern and eastern Africa, without being more specific.
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