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Bittersweet Harvest: Thai sugar company on land grab in Cambodia?
- Khmerization
- 13 September 2011
Major Thai producer among businesses facing land-grab allegations in Cambodia's lucrative sugar industry.
The war over land
- IPS
- 12 September 2011
In Guatemala, land is fiercely disputed, especially by agribusiness interests keen on expanding export crops like sugar cane and African oil palm.
Edition spéciale : fin de l’interdiction de la vente de terres en Ukraine
- EurActiv
- 12 September 2011
L’année prochaine, l’Ukraine lèvera un moratoire sur la vente de terres agricoles, une action perçue comme un pas important dans l’ouverture du pays à des acheteurs étrangers potentiels.
Half a million lives threatened by land & water grabs in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley
- Oakland Institute
- 12 September 2011
Oakland Institute report exposes how a controversial hydroelectric project in Ethiopia's Omo Valley is facilitating the take over of 350,000 ha of land for sugar cane and cotton plantations and resulting in state-sponsored human rights violations.
A huge oil palm plantation puts African rainforest at risk
- Yale Environment 360
- 12 September 2011
As global agricultural companies turn to Africa, a U.S. firm, Herakles Farms, is planning a massive oil palm plantation (60 000 ha) in Cameroon
Romanian farmland set to cultivate future growth
- Business Review
- 12 September 2011
"We are in negotiations with several foreign investment funds that are interested in buying thousands of hectares of Romanian farmland,” says analyst with DTZ Echinox.
Africa land grab: New century, more colonisers
- Newsclick
- 12 September 2011
Indian companies acquire land in Africa at throw away prices to ensure India's food security. Prof Jayati Ghosh analyses the issue and offers alternative solutions.
Who owns the farm? Foreign ownership stats released
- Beef Central
- 12 September 2011
Shadow minister for agriculture and food security, John Cobb, said it was concerning that in the past three years there had been a 10-fold increase in foreign investment in ownership and control of agricultural supply lines.
Farm groups still concerned about foreign ownership
- ABC
- 12 September 2011
The National Farmers Federation says the figures that show Australian farm land to be about 90 per cent locally owned is a small part of the picture. It's just one of three studies, with the others looking into the value of farm production.
Famine dans la Corne de L’Afrique : le g20 doit agir !
- Fenêtre sur l'Europe
- 12 September 2011
Le Parti socialiste français promeut une stratégie de développement qui implique que soient empêchés les accaparements de terres mises en œuvres par des multinationales, voire par d’autres États, qui privent les populations de leur souveraineté agricole.
Accaparement des terres: un scandale croissant
- Oxfam
- 12 September 2011
Depuis quelques mois, Oxfam mène une enquête sur l'accaparement des terres et sur la façon dont cette pratique a fait sombrer des milliers de personnes encore plus profondément dans la pauvreté. Vidéo parodie.
Farmers leave land, foreign buyers on the rise
- The Advertiser
- 10 September 2011
New figures by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show more than 12 per cent of land used for agriculture in South Australia is owned by foreign interests.
German investment fund buying up Kiwi dairy farms
- Stuff
- 10 September 2011
Aquila Capital Green Assets has helped European investors acquire $111 million of New Zealand farmland.
Agricultural businesses almost entirely Australian owned.
- Australia Bureau of Statistics
- 09 September 2011
According to figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, as at 31 December 2010, 89% of the nation's agricultural land was Australian owned.
Falsas soluciones y profundización del modelo
- ALAINET
- 09 September 2011
Acerca del proyecto de ley sobre “extranjerización de tierras” presentado por el Poder Ejecutivo Nacional: Grupo de Reflexión Rural