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Land grabs: Resisting the land gluttons
- The Land
- 02 January 2013
Winter 2012-2013 issue of The Land magazine
Wealthy Gulf investors warm to Africa
- Reuters
- 02 January 2013
Wealthy Gulf Arab companies are boosting their investment in Africa's vast lands and untapped resources, marking a shift for investors who have traditionally directed their money towards assets in the United States and Europe.
Global land and water grabbing
- PNAS
- 02 January 2013
It is found that about 0.31 × 1012 m3⋅y−1 of green water (i.e., rainwater) and up to 0.14 × 1012 m3⋅y−1 of blue water (i.e., irrigation water) are appropriated globally for crop and livestock production in 47 × 106 ha of grabbed land worldwide (i.e., in 90% of the reported global grabbed land).
From Brooklyn to Bolivian rice venture, prison and Sean Penn’s help
- New York Times
- 01 January 2013
Jacob Ostreicher was a flooring contractor and father of five from Borough Park, Brooklyn, who, like more than a few entrepreneurs battered by the recession, decided to seek his fortune abroad. In his case, he went into rice farming in Bolivia.
Whose land is it anyway?
- FSRN
- 01 January 2013
Land across great swathes of the developing world has become a prime target for foreign investors. Free Speech Radio News explores the issue by looking at what’s happening in Kenya.
FICCI President leads industry mission to Ethiopia, addresses COMESA Business Forum
- FICCI Business Digest
- 31 December 2012
The delegation consisted of senior business leaders from Indian companies such as Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi of Karuturi Global Ltd
Sierra Leone: Lease between Aristeus Palm Oil Limited and the Chiefdom Council of Sorogbema (Pujehun District)
- 31 December 2012
Lesse between Aristeus Palm Oil Limited and the Chiefdom Council of Sorogbema (Pujehun District), for 47,567 ha.
International guidelines: solutions to problems underlying large-scale land deals?
- aGter
- 31 December 2012
This article calls into question the depth and effectiveness of a regulatory approach arguing that problems underlying large-scale land deals are so deep constituting socio-institutional problems of power asymmetry, exclusion and invisiblization, than just investment externalities or regulatory challenges.
The Race for Land
- Forum Syd
- 31 December 2012
Land grabbing i fattiga länder har ökat dramatiskt under senare år. Det visar den nya rapporten ”The race for land” som Forum Syd, Afrikagrupperna och Kooperation Utan Gränser lanserade i december.
The race for land
- Forum Syd
- 31 December 2012
This report from Afrika Grupperna, Forum Syd and Swedish Cooperative Centre examines different drivers behind the recent escalation of land deals as well as common arguments legitimating land grabbing, looking at case studies from Cambodia and Mozambique.
Land grabbing in Latin America
- CJDS
- 31 December 2012
Special issue of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies contains 8 articles covering country experiences with land grabbing in Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Guatemala and Mexico.
Investissements ou accaparements fonciers en Afrique ? Les visions des paysans et de la société civile au Mali
- Développement Durable
- 31 December 2012
En s’appuyant sur l’exemple du projet Malibya, l’article étudie les réactions locales à la mise en œuvre d’un projet d’investissement.
The struggle for land, DTE special edition newsletter
- DTE
- 31 December 2012
Special Dec 2012 edition of Down To Earth (Indonesia) on land grabbing
New agency likely to administer land for agricultural investment
- Addis Fortune
- 30 December 2012
The Ministry of Agriculture is working on a draft bill for the formation of an autonomous federal agency, which would administer land available for agricultural investment in Ethiopia.
La course aux terres se poursuit
- Le Temps
- 29 December 2012
Entretien avec le Sénégalais Madiodio Niasse qui dirige l’International Land Coalition, une sorte d’observatoire qui traque les transactions foncières, sise à Rome.