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Why Gulf money did not flow into agriculture?
- Dawn
- 20 October 2014
Pakistan is now turning to agribusiness rather than land sales as a means of luring Gulf investment.
Foreign investment concerns loom large as Federal Trade Minister Andrew Robb talks up China free trade agreement
- ABC
- 20 October 2014
Some Australian farmers are voicing their concerns about the growing presence of foreign investment in their region.
QAF exits Victorian dairy with sale to ACE Farming
- The Land
- 20 October 2014
Listed Singaporean company QAF, formerly known as Bunge, has sold out its last dairy farm in Australia to the European pension fund-backed ACE Farming for close to $5 million.
Mariam Sow, à la défense de la terre
- El País
- 20 October 2014
« Une politique agricole qui laisse la terre dans les mains des puissants ou des entreprises étrangères ne fera que détruire l’agriculture familiale, l’environnement et l’économie sociale, » assure Mariam Sow.
Bolloré et les communautés locales touchées entament les négociations
- ReAct
- 20 October 2014
Vendredi 24 octobre, les représentants des communautés issues de 5 pays (Cameroun, Cambodge, Libéria, Côte d’Ivoire et Sierra Leone) touchées par les accaparements de terre ont rendez-vous à Paris avec le groupe Bolloré pour entamer les négociations.
Déclaration de Dakar contre l'accaparement de l'eau et des terres
- FSA 2014
- 18 October 2014
Nous appelons les sociétés civiles, les mouvements sociaux, les ONGs et les syndicats, à partir du Forum Social Africain, à adopter cette plateforme et soutenir ses revendications avec tous les moyens à disposition.
Dakar declaration against water and land grabbing
- ASF 2014
- 18 October 2014
We call on civil society, social movements, NGOs and trade unions from the Africa Social Forum to endorse this declaration and support its claims by all available means.
Food security and control over land
- Pakistan Observer
- 18 October 2014
The increase of international corporate land grabbing with the collusion of state Ministers, Senators and bureacrats has exacerbated the situation of unemployment and food insecurity in Pakistan
Amadou Seidi Djigo, Oxfam Intermon en Mauritanie : « Concilier objectifs du développement et droits des populations »
- Panos
- 18 October 2014
Entretien sur l’accaparement de terres au Forum social africain Dakar 2014
Agricultural commercialisation contracts: concessions over people?
- IIED
- 18 October 2014
Agricultural commercialisation concessions are contracts between governments and agribusiness companies for control over the supply of inputs and purchase of farm produce in a given geographical area.
Ouverture du 7ème FSA : Sous le signe de la résistance en Afrique
- Enquête
- 17 October 2014
L’accaparement des terres est une problématique autour de laquelle les acteurs du forum échangeront pour trouver des alternatives.
China's Jilin Province seeks agro cooperation with Zambia
- Xinhua
- 17 October 2014
Zambian government says about 3,000 hectares of land was available for the Chinese province to establish its agricultural production and assured it of the Zambian government's support and cooperation.
Big superannuation funds reluctant to value agriculture investments are encouraged to buy into water trade instead
- ABC
- 17 October 2014
Big institutional investors are being encouraged to get a slice of Australia's $1.6 billion market in annual water trading as a way to buy into agriculture.
Chinese-backed consortium wants to buy up south-west dairy farms
- The Standard
- 17 October 2014
A consortium hoping to buy dozens of south-west dairy farms aims to operate “on a scale not considered in Australia before,” a spokesman for the consortium says.
In Ethiopia, foreign investment is a fancy word for stealing land
- Quartz
- 17 October 2014
Land grabs in the developing world create a system so unequal that resource-rich countries become resource dependent.