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From land grab to win-win
- FAO
- 29 June 2009
David Hallam explains how international investments in agriculture can be good news if the objectives of land purchasers are reconciled with the investment needs of developing countries.
New asset classes for Islamic investments
- MENAFN
- 29 June 2009
The water industry and agriculture are emerging as major new asset classes for Islamic financial institutions, especially in the field of sustainable investments.
India joins 'neocolonial' rush for Africa's land and labour
- The Telegraph
- 28 June 2009
India, once the colonial jewel of Britain's empire, has been accused of 'neo-colonialism' in Africa where its business people have joined a race with China, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere to buy up agricultural estates and take advantage of cheap labour.
This land is our land?
- Chronicle Herald
- 28 June 2009
While ordinary Canadians watch their pensions and jobs evaporate in the global economic mess, those who brought us the crisis have found a new profit-making toy. It’s land-grabbing, 21st-century style. Canada is not being spared.
Démarrage à Tripoli de la Journée du PDDAA
- PANA
- 28 June 2009
La Journée du Programme détaillé de développement de l'agriculture africaine (PDDAA) a démarré samedi à Tripoli, dans le cadre des activités organisés en marge de la 13ème Conférence des chefs d'Etat et de gouvernements des pays membres de l'Union africaine (UA) prévue le 1er juillet à Syrte, dans le centre de la Libye.
Kingdom, Canada boost trade ties
- Saudi Gazette
- 28 June 2009
Trade minister Stockwell Day said that Canada stands to benefit from the Saudi Kingdom’s overseas agricultural investment initiative and that the Canadian Parliament is studying it.
Lula approves bill allowing squatters rights in Amazon
- Guardian
- 28 June 2009
Environmentalists — who have dubbed it the “land-grabbers bill” — fear the new rules will offer a carte blanche for those wanting to make money by destroying the Amazon.
The poor struggle for bargaining power in land disputes - world leaders aren't turning blind eye
- San Francisco Examiner
- 27 June 2009
When people are using lands under customary tenure arrangements, there is an inequality in bargaining power where no formal titles to the land exist if a foreign investor is interested in purchasing the land.
The worldwide grab of farmland and water resources
- Ghana News
- 27 June 2009
Together with GMO, the land grab wave that is spreading across Africa and other countries in the "developing world" should be brought to the attention of all interested Ghanaians. It is important for Ghanaians to avoid falling for it.
La Guinée veut composer avec les Emirats arabes unis
- Les Afriques
- 27 June 2009
Parmi les propositions alléchantes figurent aussi en bonne place les financements des investissements privés, avec, pour composante, le bail emphytéotique d’une partie des 3 500 000 ha de terres cultivables que possède le pays.
Zambie : des firmes américaines et émiraties s'intéressent aux exploitations agricoles
- Les Afriques
- 27 June 2009
Selon le ministre de l'Agriculture, Brian Chituwo, des entreprises américaines et émiraties sont intéressées par la création de grandes exploitations agricoles en Zambie, pour cultiver du sucre et des céréales.
Cambodian fund Leopard Capital makes two new investments
- AltAssets
- 26 June 2009
The Leopard Cambodia Fund has set aside $1.8m to establish Cambodia Plantations, a Singapore-based company which will serve as an offshore finance vehicle for agricultural investments in central Cambodia. The drawdown will fund the establishment of a subsidiary that is in the process of obtaining a land concession in the province of Kompong Chhnang for rice cultivation.