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World Bank report on land grabbing: Beyond the smoke and mirrors
- GRAIN
- 15 September 2010
GRAIN says the World Bank's much anticipated report on the global farmland grab is both a disappointment and a failure.
Corporate land grabs threaten food security
- Christian Science Monitor
- 14 September 2010
There is too much at stake when governments give up land, water, and livestock to large-scale foreign investment. NGOs and funders have to listen and respond to the needs and accomplishments on the ground, and keep local food systems truly local.
Estrangeiros avançam na aquisição de terras no país
- Folha de São Paulo
- 13 September 2010
O Brasil tem quase 15% das terras no mundo ainda não exploradas para a agricultura e deve ser um dos alvos de investidores internacionais nos próximos anos. A avaliação é do Banco Mundial.
Cambodia: Communities fight back against land grabbing
- IRIN
- 13 September 2010
“The EU is effectively subsidizing land grabbing in Cambodia by giving preferential treatment to companies that have produced goods on stolen land,” says David Pred, BABC executive director
Razzia sur les terres agricoles de la planète
- Ouest France
- 13 September 2010
Peut-on moraliser ce marché ? « C'est une réalité, il faut trouver des solutions juridiques », observe le juriste François Collart Dutilleul du programme Lascaux à l'université de Nantes
Peut-on réguler la spéculation sur les terres agricoles?
- Novethic
- 13 September 2010
Pour Oxfam France, il faut surtout agir sur les questions commerciales, laissées en plan par le rapport de la Banque mondiale.
eDiscussion on World Bank report
- Global Donor Platform
- 13 September 2010
The eDiscussion will take place from 13 September to 8 October and is open to all.
Papua proposes 500,000 hectares for food estate: Minister
- Jakarta Post
- 13 September 2010
Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan said his ministry received a proposal to make use of 500,000 hectare areas for the 1.6-million-hectare food and energy estate projects planned in Merauke, Papua.
Time is ripe to develop agribusiness
- Moscow Times
- 13 September 2010
As foreign investors in Russia are all too aware, there is a perennial conflict within the country’s political elite on how to balance the need for foreign investment and outside technology with an impulse to maximize state control over sectors that carry outsized economic or social significance.
Overseas farmland can fill empty rice bowls
- Global Times
- 12 September 2010
"I have asked the USDA if Chinese investors could buy farmland in the US and I got positive answers. In this way, Chinese grain price could escape the control of international grain enterprises," says Zheng Fengtian.
Turkey's agricultural land new foreign investment target
- Hurriyet
- 12 September 2010
Foreign investors are increasingly focusing on opportunities in Turkish agriculture, according to Mehmet Erdo?an, chairman of Sezon Pirinç, a rice company
The backlash begins against the world landgrab
- The Telegraph
- 12 September 2010
The World Bank appears deeply torn. While the report endorses the Bank's open-door globalisation agenda, the sub-text dissents on every page.
Les prédateurs s’accaparent les terres arables africaines
- Tribune de Genève
- 11 September 2010
En eux-mêmes, ces investissements ne sont pas forcément mauvais, note la Banque mondiale. Mais dans les faits, ils s’effectuent dans des conditions «très souvent» désastreuses pour les populations locales.
Egypt offers 50,000 acres for farm projects
- Reuters
- 11 September 2010
Egypt will soon offer to lease, for 49 years, 50,000 feddans [21,000 ha] for agri-business projects in North Sinai, the irrigation minister said -- but only to domestic investors.
After offshoring, Obama needs to crack down on farmland grab
- Ground Reality
- 10 September 2010
"I know you will think why should President Obama meddle in the affairs of other countries," writes Devlinder Sharma. "I agree, but at least he can stop the American agribiz and finance companies from indulging in offshore farmland grab."