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Laguna digests stake in Australia’s PrimeAg
- WSJ
- 20 September 2012
Laguna Bay Pastoral Company Crop Fund No. 8 is a relatively new player in Australia’s rural property game, backed by the Global Endowment Fund based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Bahrain pushes to ensure GCC food security
- 24x7 News
- 19 September 2012
The Kingdom of Bahrain is seeking to conclude an agreement with the African Union Commission paving the way for the GCC bloc to ensure the food security by utilising the natural resources rich African continent.
Land grabbing and food sovereignty in West and Central Africa
- GRAIN
- 19 September 2012
February 2012 workshop in Ouidah, Benin brought together over thirty participants from farmer organisations and NGOs in West and Central Africa to share experiences and analysis of land grabs.
Mendillo returns to farms as Harvard vies for Ivy rebound
- Bloomberg
- 18 September 2012
Since Jane Mendillo took over the endowment in July 2008, Harvard’s holdings of forests, farms and other natural resources in Brazil as well as in New Zealand and Romania have grown to about 10 percent of the portfolio -- more than $3 billion -- and she wants to add more.
The hunger grains
- Oxfam
- 17 September 2012
Countries with poor protection of land rights are magnets for land deals – most of which are to grow crops that can be used for biofuels – which means that many land deals for biofuel production are ‘land grabs’, concluded without the consent of affected communities.
L’accaparement des ressources naturelles au Cameroun
- AGTER
- 17 September 2012
Extraits vidéo d'une rencontre-débat avec Samuel Nguiffo, secrétaire général du Centre pour l’Environnement et le Développement du Cameroun (CED), à partir de l’analyse du giga-projet de plantation de palmier à huile Herakles
Govt to drop export quotas, agricultural commodity bans
- Addis Fortune
- 16 September 2012
The Ethiopian government says that it will no longer impose export quotas on commercial farm outputs and processed goods as a part of its commitment for the new partnership introduced by G-8 countries that focuses on facilitating private sector investment in African agriculture.
MOFT Undersecretary discusses boosting food investments with Argentina
- WAM
- 16 September 2012
UAE seeks to have Argentina join the ranks of other world countries such as India, USA, Canada and Brazil in becoming a primary supplier of food to the country.
An African growth story
- iriscake.com
- 16 September 2012
The public debate about the ethics of investing in farmland is being ignored by serious investors who seem to have had no qualms about buying up large tracts of land in Africa reports the Financial Times.
Land grabs: a data visualisation
- Peter Giovanni
- 15 September 2012
Cartogram of land grabs led by foreign investors after 2006
Liberia: Sime Darby denies awarding contract to Green Advocates
- New Republic
- 14 September 2012
“We need to be growing at the rate of 10,000 hectares a year to be economically viable, which is not happening,” says Sime Darby official. “Securing land has been a gruelling process.”
Pourquoi la FAO et la BERD promeuvent-ils la destruction de l'agriculture paysanne et familiale?
- La Via Campesina, GRAIN, FOE et al.
- 14 September 2012
Des organisations sociales se disent offensées par un article du Wall Street Journal écrit par le Directeur Général de la FAO et le Président de la EBRD appelant les gouvernements à adopter le secteur privé comme moteur principal de la production alimentaire globale.
¿Por que la FAO y el BERD promueven una agricultura que destruye la agricultura campesina?
- La Via Campesina, GRAIN, FOE et al
- 14 September 2012
Las organizaciones sociales han expresado su sorpresa e indignación por un artículo firmado por el Director General de la FAO y el Presidente del EBRD, en el que llaman a los gobiernos y a la sociedad a abrazar al sector privado como el principal motor de la producción global de alimentos.
Why are the FAO and the EBRD promoting the destruction of peasant and family farming?
- La Via Campesina, GRAIN, FOE et al
- 14 September 2012
Social organisations are shocked and offended by a Wall Street Journal article written by the FAO Director General and EBRD President that calls on governments to embrace corporations as the main engine for global food production.
A la una, a las dos….. El gran acaparamiento verde de tierras
- Inforegion
- 14 September 2012
A nivel global, grandes extensiones de tierras están siendo apropiadas por la agenda ambiental, un proceso que ha encontrado gran acogida entre influyentes ONG internacionales de conservación.