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Understanding land investment deals in Africa
- Redeye
- 20 December 2011
Interview with Frederic Mousseau, policy director at the Oakland Institute in California.
Alpcot Agro to acquire Landkom International
- World-Grain.com
- 20 December 2011
With the merger, Alpcot Agro now controls well over 250,000 hectares of farmland in Russia and the Ukraine.
Investment conference on agricultural investment, food security begins at the Friendship Hall
- SUNA
- 20 December 2011
The conference reviewed the experience of Al-Rajihi International Group in Sudan and Al-Kharif Investment Company in the field of food production as well as the National Company for Agricultural Production in Sudan.
Uganda/Mubende: Hunger muss vor Gericht!
- FIAN
- 20 December 2011
Vor mehr als zehn Jahren wurden rund 400 Bauernfamilien in Mubende, Uganda, von ihrem Land und aus ihren Dörfern vertrieben. Sie mussten einer Kaffeeplantage weichen.
“This is not the democracy that we fought for:” An Interview with Ricado Jacobs, South African member of La Via Campesina
- GJEP
- 20 December 2011
"We’re dealing with a different enemy now: not with an enemy that emerges from the center to the periphery, as they used to say, but with an enemy that comes at us from all sides."
Securing the right to land
- ILEIA
- 20 December 2011
The latest issue of Farming Matters on a topic that is central to all small-scale farmers: land. Competition for land and power, and particularly the global increase of large scale land acquisitions, cause contestations about which land is rightfully owned and used by whom.
Karuturi sets sight on sugarcane crushing factory
- Oromiya Government
- 19 December 2011
In three years, 15,000ha will be covered with a sugarcane plantation in Gambela Province.
Argentina limits ownership by foreigners
- Press TV
- 19 December 2011
Argentina's congress has started to debate a bill that would regulate the purchase of farmland by foreigners in the Latin American country, Press TV reports.
Foreign investment in Aussie farmland on hold
- Property Observer
- 19 December 2011
Foreign investors have spent a record $12 billion buying up Australian farmland and agricultural businesses over the past year, but have put off investing a further $14 billion until the outcome of a Senate inquiry in March 2012, a new report by Ferrier Hodgson says.
Corso alla terra
- RAI3
- 18 December 2011
In un viaggio che va dagli uffici di Washington della Banca Mondiale fino a una rivolta contadina nel cuore dell'Africa Occidentale, la puntata di domenica 18 dicembre cerca di percorrere i fili intrecciati di finanza, politica e modelli di sviluppo economico che stanno muovendo una corsa globale all'accaparramento di terra.
Indonesia's land acquisition bill will intensify landgrabbing, says Asian peasant group
- APC
- 17 December 2011
Asian Peasant Coalition's press release on land grabbing in Indonesia
Na África, pesquisador da Unesp critica "estrangeirização" da terra
- Agrosoft Brasil
- 16 December 2011
Na África, o geógrafo brasileiro Bernardo Mançano Fernandes critica "estrangeirização" da terra: Brasil é vítima e autor de política encabeçada pela China.
Argentina’s lower house passes bill limiting foreign ownership of rural land to 15 percent
- AP
- 16 December 2011
Argentina’s lower house of Congress has passed a bill limiting foreign ownership of rural land to 1,000 hectares per family. The bill must now be passed by the Senate.
China eyes LatAm agribusiness
- Vox Box
- 16 December 2011
What do Peruvian fishmeal, Chilean wine and Brazilian soy beans have in common? They’re all on China’s shopping list as it steps up its agribusiness acquisitions and investments overseas to overcome considerable supply constraints at home.
Foreigners own 7 percent of Romania's farmland shows GRAIN data
- Business Review
- 16 December 2011
Alongside countries like Liberia, Laos, Congo and Sierra Leone, Romania is one of the countries where foreign companies own large areas of farmland, according to a report put together by GRAIN.