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Full Planet, Empty Plates: Chapter 2. The Ecology of Population Growth
- 09 May 2013
The most recent U.N. demographic projections show world population growing to 9.3 billion by 2050, an addition of 2.3 billion people. Most people think these demographic projections, like most of those made over the last half-century, will in fact materialize. But this is unlikely, given the difficulties in expanding the food supply, such as those posed by spreading water shortages and global warming. We are fast outgrowing the earth’s capacity to sustain our increasing numbers.
Ethnic activists warn of surge in land grabs after ceasefires
- Irrawaddy
- 09 May 2013
About 40 ethnic activist groups are calling on the government, ethnic militias and the international community to address a surge in land-grabbing, as companies move into Burma’s ethnic regions following recent ceasefire agreements.
La concepción instrumental de la política de tierras en Colombia
- Prensa Rural
- 09 May 2013
La pretensión oficial por resolver la titularidad de la tierra se inscribe en el cumplimiento de una exigencia del capital para establecerse en el territorio colombiano. Este reposicionamiento del capital sobre el territorio inaugurará un nuevo ciclo de despojo, pero esta vez se tratará de una desposesión legal.
BMI: Saudi Arabia Agribusiness Report (Apr-13)
- Zawya
- 07 May 2013
A consortium of Saudi groups - comprising dairy giant Almarai, grain importer Al Rajhi and Salic, the agriculture arm of the country's sovereign wealth fund - agreed to pay US $92mn to acquire Continental Farmers Group located in northern Poland and western Ukraine
Maharashtra’s sugar cooperatives seek to expand in Africa
- Live Mint
- 07 May 2013
Governments in African countries lease out land at low rates, which makes it attractive to investors
Africa is 'the Brazil of the 1970s' in agriculture
- Agrimoney
- 07 May 2013
Savills, the UK property consultancy, believes sub-Saharan Africa, in agriculture, is the Brazil of the 1970s but warns against investments in farms of over 5,000 ha because of land ownership sensitivities.
Colombia: El Meta y los Llanos también sufren acaparamiento de tierras
- Notillano
- 07 May 2013
La Orinoquia ha sido llamada oficialmente como la última frontera agrícola del país, y es el escenario de múltiples intereses de acaparamiento de empresas nacionales y multinacionales que han venido promocionando el modelo del Cerrado brasileño para emularlo en la región, con el único interés de transferir tecnología al suelo.
Foro Internacional de Acaparamiento de Tierras
- CENSAT
- 07 May 2013
El objetivo es abrir un espacio de debate y análisis sobre el acaparamiento de tierras como fenómeno global y relacionar esta práctica mundial con la política agraria en Colombia.
Olam Moçambique announces “large investments” for next four years
- Macauhub
- 07 May 2013
Olam is putting together an investment plan for the areas of agricultural production and food distribution, which could equal the amount of investment made since it started operating in Mozambique.
BrasilAgro flags buoyancy of Brazil land market
- Agrimoney
- 07 May 2013
BrasilAgro flagged the buoyancy of Brazil's farmland market by selling off part of its holding for the equivalent of $6,000 an acre – more than four times the price it paid six years ago.
Uruguay: Plan de uso de suelos trastocará arrendamientos agropecuarios
- Entorno Inteligente
- 06 May 2013
La implementación de los planes de uso y manejo de los suelos que comenzó a exigir el Ministerio de Ganadería, afectará la dinámica de arrendamientos de tierras.
The smallholders’ last stand
- New Internationalist
- 06 May 2013
A visit to Mozambique dispels any notion that big business is going to ‘feed Africa’. Hazel Healy reports on a land rush in full swing.
Céréales : AgroGeneration absorbé par un rival ukrainien
- Les Echos
- 06 May 2013
Le groupe céréalier AgroGénération, créé en 2007 par l'homme d'affaires Charles Beigbeder, va être absorbé par Harmélia, un rival ukrainien, détenu à 100 % par le fonds d'investissement américain SigmaBleyzer.
The food pirates
- Hindu Business Line
- 06 May 2013
Foreign investment in African land has been greatly fostered by the Indian Government and its business associations.
Statement to the African regional meeting of the 2013 World Economic Forum
- AWDF
- 06 May 2013
Africa’s primary food security systems are at threat from the process of relentless land degradation, dispossession, privatisation and large scale land grabs.