Food Estate rejected
    The Agricultural Stance Coalition has rejected the government’s plan to establish a food estate in Merauke, Papua. According to them, the plan sounds reckless and letting the people of Indonesia become slaves in their own country.
    • VIVA News
    • 26 April 2010
    UAE considers mechanism to safeguard food supplies
    The UAE will set up a strategic food stock as part of a food security strategy that includes aquiring farmland in African and Asian countries
    • Gulf News
    • 26 April 2010
    US remarks: Roundtable on Responsible Agricultural Investment
    We need to hear the results of research and case studies done by FAO, UNCTAD, IFAD and the World Bank, so we can respond as governments and organizations based on solid information and not hearsay.
    • US State Dept
    • 25 April 2010
    Ethiopia: Land rent contractual agreement made between Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Ruchi Agri PLC
    Contract covers the lease of 25,000 ha in the Regional State of Gambela for a period of 25 years, with option for renewal.
    • 25 April 2010
    Denuncian que el Banco Mundial promueve acaparamiento de tierra
    Más de cien organizaciones de todo el mundo exigen frenar la ola de acaparamiento de tierras de inversionistas oficiales y privados que se están apoderando de millones de hectáreas de cultivos de comunidades rurales de África, Asia y América Latina.
    • La Jornada
    • 25 April 2010
    Statement by Qatar to Roundtable on Responsible Agricultural Investments
    An equitable shared-benefits agreement can best provide the basis for responsible and sustainable agricultural development, especially in currently cultivated land areas where the yield gaps are large.
    • IIASA
    • 25 April 2010
    Gulf Cooperation Council food security: balancing the equation
    "A key obstacle to more transparent debate and informed decisions by governments and investors [involved in global land transactions] is the lack of science-based information," writes Surendra Shah in Nature magazine
    • Nature
    • 25 April 2010
    Singapore boosts local farming for food security
    Government of Singapore has set up a fund to support feasibility studies on investments in overseas food zones, overseas contract farming and other non-traditional sources of food security for the city-state.
    • AFP
    • 25 April 2010
    Pour un arrêt immédiat de l'accaparement des terres de nos aïeux !
    La ruée sur les meilleures terres est une réalité au Benin. Pour nous, OPs et OSC, les principes de la Banque Mondiale sont un écran de fumée pour tenter de la légitimer.
    • Synergie Paysanne
    • 24 April 2010
    La Chine aime le Brésil
    La compagnie chinoise Chongqing Grain Group vient d’annoncer son intention d’acheter 100 000 hectares de terres arables dans l’Etat de Bahia, dans le nord-est du Brésil, afin d’y cultiver du soja pour le marché chinois.
    • Usine Nouvelle
    • 23 April 2010
    Women farmers, peasant movements and land grabbers
    On Earth Day plus one, we need to ask: what can stop this speculative juggernaut? And how can we support the rural farm communities – half of our humankind – who are fighting for sustainable food production.
    • Global Policy Forum
    • 23 April 2010
    Bruxelles : Appel à manifester
    Des paysans et des organisations de la société civile, en Belgique comme ailleurs, demandent à la Banque mondiale de ne pas cautionner l’accaparement des terres
    • FUGEA-Info
    • 23 April 2010
    'Agro-neocapitalism and land grab' available in Arabic & Kurdish
    A publication (82 pages) entitled ‘Agro-Neocapatilism and Land grab’ featuring Arabic and Kurdish translations of the various articles on this subject is now available
    • Talib Murad
    • 23 April 2010
    China in Oz-farm move
    China may set up large pork and chicken operations in Australia as it strives to keep up a burgeoning demand for meat among Chinese consumers.
    • Weekly Times
    • 23 April 2010
    Inversores privados resisten marco normativo
    Un año después de la controvertida compra irregular de vastas extensiones de tierra en África, las empresas trasnacionales se resisten a respetar un código de conducta que puede asegurar la transparencia.
    • IPS
    • 23 April 2010

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