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Kenya: Proposed law to rid country of rampant public land-grabbing
- Daily Nation
- 16 October 2009
Foreigners and foreign companies will also not be allowed to own land in the country but can acquire leaseholds not exceeding 99 years, the draft says.
Researchers seek land leases policy change in Africa
- ASNS
- 16 October 2009
Lorenzo Cotula of IIED explains how large-scale land acquisitions by rich countries in Africa failed to reach its target and why it is important to identify trends in these contractual practices
Congo Brazzaville ofrece un tercio de su territorio a inversores extranjeros
- El País
- 15 October 2009
La República del Congo ha ofrecido a los inversores internacionales 10 millones de hectáreas de sus terrenos de cultivo, un envite al que ha respondido la mayor asociación de agricultores de Suráfrica y que con toda probabilidad acelerará la carrera por la apropiación de tierras en África.
World Food Day 2009: This crisis is an opportunity to roll back the rising tide of world hunger
- Asian Food Worker
- 15 October 2009
The large-scale cross border land grabs of late, following the realization that “free trade” is not a reliable basis for food security, should be stopped as an unsustainable response which can only exacerbate the problem of hunger, say IUF members in Asia-Pacific
Small farmers in Pakistan say "NO!" to GE rice, Plant Breeder's Right Act and land grabbing in Pakistan
- Lok Sanjh Foundation
- 15 October 2009
On October 15 2009, the Lok Sanjh Foundation and the Pakistan Dehqan Assembly organized a conference on rice and the food crisis, focusing on small farmer livelihoods. More than 600 farmers, tenants, landless workers and partner organizations from different parts of the Sheikhupura region participated in the event.
SDC syposium: "Large-scale investment in agriculture and land – Opportunity and risk for food security"
- SDC
- 15 October 2009
Presentations at a symposium organised by the Swiss government on World Food Day 2009
China may sponsor Lamu Port
- BMI
- 15 October 2009
No deal was ever secured with Qatar, and China is now being eyed as a more appropriate suitor for the project.
Food for thought
- FDI Magazine
- 15 October 2009
In the future it seems most likely that improved food security will be achieved through a combination of farmland investment, the traditional free flow of trade in agricultural commodities and food products, and insurance market support to underwrite all of these activities, says FDI Magazine
As US and other wealthy nations slash aid, UN warns of “silent tsunami of hunger” in global food crisis
- Democracy Now!
- 14 October 2009
Devinder Sharma talks about landgrabbing in the context of the world food crisis on "Democracy Now!"
Petition against land lease disposed of
- The News
- 14 October 2009
The chief justice of Lahore's High Court directed the Ministry of Food and Agriculture that no land would be sold or leased out to any foreign country without prior intimation to this court.
Kuwait's SWF-linked KCIC says to list shares in Q4
- Reuters
- 14 October 2009
Kuwait China Investment Co, a firm linked to the Gulf Arab state's sovereign wealth fund which is approaching governments in Southeast Asia to invest in farmland, said it had secured final approval to list its shares on the Kuwaiti bourse.
La Chine manque de terres arables
- Novethic
- 14 October 2009
Pékin préfère parler de « transfert de technologies » que de délocalisation.