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Renta de tierras agudizará la crisis alimentaria
- La Jornada
- 30 November 2009
Avanza en Etiopía el alquiler de grandes extensiones agrícolas a firmas indias y chinas
Wall Street fait main basse sur les terres agricoles
- La Terre
- 30 November 2009
Sous l’œil bienveillant de l’ONU, les grands noms de la finance s’accaparent des régions agricoles entières.
«La FAO a une attitude schizophrénique»
- La Terre
- 30 November 2009
Entretien. Les institutions internationales prônent un «code de conduite»pour encadrer les rachats de terres. Une solution qui n’améliorera pas le sort des pays pauvres, estime Devlin Kuyek, de l’ONG Grain.
アフリカでも進行する国際的な農地取引誰にとってのチャンスなのか(2009)
- AJF
- 30 November 2009
アフリカでも進行する国際的な農地取引誰にとってのチャンスなのか(2009)　AFJの会報より
Korea leases African land to ensure food security
- APA
- 30 November 2009
The South Korean government has realised that its 49 million people cannot, in the long term, be fed sustainably without the assistance of Africa’s abundant land resources.
AFSA urges leaders to resist massive land grabs
- Daily Monitor
- 29 November 2009
The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa urged African leaders to resist the corporate industrialization of African agriculture which will result in massive land grabs, and for the issue to be raised at the upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen.
Guerre des terres en Afrique: la Lybie, l'Arabie Séoudite, Dubai, la Chine raflent les terres arables et irriguables
- Rénovez Maintenant 67
- 29 November 2009
Pour équilibrer leurs comptes, les fonds spéculatifs et les fonds souverains raflent des millions de terres arables et cultivables dans les Pays ACP (Afrique, Caraïbes, Pacifique) et dans les PED (Pays En Développement).
Alimentación: hacia un nuevo colonialismo
- La Jornada
- 29 November 2009
La extensión de lo que ha sido calificado por el director de la FAO, Jacques Diouf, como un "sistema neocolonial", constituye el avance de un peldaño en la aplicación de la visión global de libre mercado que ha prevalecido en las últimas décadas en la política alimentaria mundial, la cual convierte las necesidades alimentarias de la población en una inmensa oportunidad de negocios privados.
Karuturi fructifies further to conquer overseas
- Economic Times
- 29 November 2009
Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi, managing director of Karuturi Global Ltd was conferred with the award for business excellence in agribusiness in Africa by Corporate Council on Africa, for the year 2009.
Dominion Farms rebuttal to Business Week article
- Dominion Farms Ltd
- 28 November 2009
While Dominion Farms is honored that Business Week saw our company as a global front runner in doing business in Africa, we are disheartened by the lack of commitment to the true story of Dominion Farms.
Une TV française enquête sur la cession de terres en Ethiopie
- Africa Intelligence
- 28 November 2009
L'Ethiopie sera à l'honneur d'un des premiers reportages de la nouvelle émission Terre d'enquête de la chaîne de télévision privée française M6
Rubada gets Sh65bn loan for rice project
- The Citizen
- 27 November 2009
South Korea, through the Korean Economic Development Fund, has extended a $50 million (about Sh65 billion) loan to the Rufiji Basin Development Authority (Rubada). About 100,000 hectares of land have been set aside for modern rice farming under the project.
Could failure be the best outcome?
- Morning Star
- 27 November 2009
Over the next couple of weeks we will see a level of political frenzy let loose on the international stage.
European Parliament resolution of 26 November 2009 on the FAO Summit and food security
- European Parliament
- 27 November 2009
22. Stresses that farmland acquisition by foreign investors, particularly in Africa, must not have an adverse impact on local food security or lead to unsustainable land use; points out that it may also have positive effects by bringing land into productive use; urges the FAO and the Member States to work towards common rules and legislative proposals which recognise the right of local people in every country to control farmland and other natural resources vital to their food security;
Sudán, ¿el futuro granero de Oriente Medio?
- AFP
- 26 November 2009
Inversores árabes y asiáticos buscan tomar el control de amplias extensiones de tierras fértiles en Sudán, el país más grande de África, que quiere convertirse en el granero de Oriente Medio, aunque para ello deberá modernizar primero su agricultura.