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Singapore firms aim to invest in farming
- The Phnom Penh Post
- 18 June 2009
At least six Singaporean companies want to start joint ventures with Cambodian partners to invest in the Kingdom's agricultural sector.
Don’t be so quick to sell off the farmland
- Jakarta Globe
- 18 June 2009
If Indonesia decides to go ahead with leasing farmland, it should do so with caution, keeping an eye on both the risks and the opportunities. We need to understand that we have a very strong bargaining position.
Global land grab
- Foreign Policy in Focus
- 18 June 2009
Contrary to past trends, countries in the Global South are initiating much of the investment.
Sudanese community fights land grab attempts
- Farm Radio Weekly
- 18 June 2009
Farm Radio Weekly correspondent, David De Dau spoke to people in the Madi community, who found themselves the victims of land grabbing in the post-conflict state of lawlessness.
Malawian villagers lose land to sugar plantation
- Farm Radio Weekly
- 18 June 2009
Farm Radio International writer Gladson Makowa, visited a Malawian community where small-scale farmland was transformed into a sugarcane plantation. He reports on how locals are coping with the loss of farmland and hoping to keep their houses.
India outsources agriculture
- Down to Earth
- 17 June 2009
Codes of conduct don’t work, said Devinder Sharma of Forum for Biotechnology and Food Security, Delhi. “It is unethical to grab land in other countries; it will lead to food crisis as investor countries will grow food for profit.”
The food crisis continues - in the form of a global scramble for lucrative farmlands
- CounterCurrents
- 17 June 2009
It's a tsunami of land deals and, as all of the experts who have studied the phenomenon have agreed, no nation is truly prepared for its implications.
Artistic impression down on the farm
- Financial Times
- 17 June 2009
The Sekem Group, Egypt’s foremost producer and exporter of organic food to Europe and the US, is not a typical Egyptian enterprise.
Kenya at a crossroads
- Speroforum
- 17 June 2009
Corruption has reached tremendous levels in Kenya. The distance between the poor and wealthy is at its greatest and Kenyans are wondering how to emerge from an unjust system in the land that gave birth to Humanity.
Questioning old traditions
- IPS
- 17 June 2009
Uganda's minister of agriculture literally pleaded with the agribusiness delegates at a forum in Capetown to take advantage of Uganda’s extremely advantageous deals for private investors in the agricultural sector.
Food security: We need a strategy for rice
- Jakarta Post
- 17 June 2009
Singapore's Temasek is seeking to buy land in North Bolaang Mongondow, North Sulawesi, where they plan to grow high-quality rice.
Holding the actors involved in the global land grab to account: the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights urges action from Cambodia
- 3D Three
- 17 June 2009
During the recent review of Cambodia before the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, several Committee members raised concerns about the potential effects a land deal with the Kuwaiti government could have on various economic, social and cultural rights in Cambodia, including the rights to food, housing and an adequate standard of living.
Foncier 8 : Le point du jour
- Bekoto paysans
- 17 June 2009
Je me demande si l'agenda du développement rural semblerait déjà avoir été écrit à l'avance par toutes et tous... sauf par les paysans africains et malgaches eux-mêmes.
KKR takes stake in Chinese milk producer with $150m investment
- Financial Times
- 16 June 2009
KKR said that the company planned to build or acquire up to a further 30 large-scale farms over the next few years.
SAfrica cautions on farmland scramble
- Reuters
- 16 June 2009
South Africa's government will not stand in the way of its farmers investing in other African countries but cannot help protect their investments, its agriculture minister said on Tuesday.