Logo-text
Logo2022-farmlandgrab-en
  • Home
  • About
    • Help
  • Events
  • Gallery
  • Publish
  • Subscribe
    • Weekly archives
  • Languages
    • English/all
    • français
    • Español
  • Home
  • About
  • Events
  • Gallery
  • Publish
  • Subscribe
  • Languages
    • English/all
    • français
    • Español
farmlandgrab.org weekly archives Arrow-right16

farmlandgrab.org weekly e-mail
Food crisis and the global land grab
farmlandgrab.org weekly | 12 Dec 2012

English | français | Español | events

English
BBC | 11 Dec 2012
The controversy of land deals in Liberia
From a a palm oil plantation run by a Malaysian company, Sime Darby, the Today programme's Evan Davis looked into whether lands deals are a route into better life, or a signing away of the nation's wealth.

EcoNexus | 11 Dec 2012
African Agricultural Growth Corridors: Who benefits, who loses?
Governments, IFIs and corporations are collaborating in major new projects to reorder land and water use and create industrial infrastructure over millions of ha in Africa to ensure sustained supplies of commodities and profits for markets.

Why Poverty? | 11 Dec 2012
Land Rush: How do you feed the world
Documentary film examines the experience of Mali with large-scale farmland grabs.

The Australian | 10 Dec 2012
US farm fund buys Elliott's old station
TIAA-CREF's Westchester group buys 17,200 ha Cobran Station, once Australia's largest rice farm, while Sweden's Forsta AP-fonden buys the 16,000 ha Merri Meric farm near Henty.

Feronia | 10 Dec 2012
Feronia Inc. announces strategic investment from Phatisa's African Agriculture Fund
Feronia Inc. announced that it has entered into a share subscription agreement with the African Agriculture Fund managed by Phatisa Fund Managers Limited

VOA | 07 Dec 2012
UN: 'Land grab' deals hurt local farmers
Controversial farmland deals in developing countries can have a negative impact on the people who live on the land, according to a new U.N. report.

Rural 21 | 06 Dec 2012
Sustainable land grabs? Large-scale land transfers are not a development option
We need to shift our focus away from the question of how to make large-scale land "investments" sustainable and ask the underlying question of development policy: which strategies are best suited to combat hunger and to empower marginalised groups to feed themselves?

War on Want | 06 Dec 2012
DFID and agribusiness in Africa: a toxic mix
New research from War on Want reveals that the UK government's Department for International Development (DFID) has been using the aid budget to promote the interests of multinational food companies in Africa.

FAO | 06 Dec 2012
FAO calls for farmer-centred approach to investment in agriculture
Report calls upon governments, civil society and corporate investors to ensure that large-scale investments in agriculture, like the acquisition of land by private companies and funds, are transparent, accountable, socially beneficial and environmentally sustainable.

Via Campesina | 06 Dec 2012
Senegal, Final declaration of the Family Farms International forum
Forum condemns any practices consisting in grabbing natural resources (land, water, forests...) and granting them to agro-industrial stakeholders who are threatening the development of family farms' potential.

The Edge Malaysia | 06 Dec 2012
Business investments: Farmland as an asset
Many of the world's biggest pension funds as well as family offices of wealthy individuals –looking for diversification and steady returns in times of market volatility– have been pouring money into farmlands, writes Kelvins Tan

Bloomberg | 06 Dec 2012
Bloomberg Hedge Fund Summit 2012: Commodities with Ospraie's Anderson
Ospraie Management, the famous commodities hedge fund, is still long on farmland because it has actual cash flow. Many pension funds are now buying farmlands, reports Bloomberg.

Foreign Policy | 05 Dec 2012
'The global farms race' and the quest for food security
The question of how farmers will feed the world while adjusting to changing weather patterns appears to have been sidelined at the climate talks in Doha even as this year's crippling drought in the US sent grain prices to record highs.

Agrimoney | 05 Dec 2012
Fund farm buying 'only just begun' - even at $40bn
The wave of fund investment in farmland has reached only a fraction of its potential, even after hitting up to $40bn, with the potential to hit $1,000bn as it gains a "natural home" in portfolios.

Reuters | 30 Nov 2012
Invest in food on climate change risk: Baring
Taking tracts of agricultural land is among ways to play the risks of climate change says Baring Asset Management's chief investment officer, Marino Valensise.

Daily News | 28 Nov 2012
Investors to acquire limited land
The Tanzanian government has agreed to put a ceiling with regard to what size of land a single large scale investor can be allocated for agriculture.

Olam | 28 Nov 2012
Olam dismisses Muddy Waters report findings
Olam's rebuttal provides new information on its rice farming operations in Nigeria, including its cooperation with the Africa Rice Centre of the CGIAR.

Africa Renewal | 06 Sep 2012
Women struggle to secure land rights
Activists are fighting to introduce or strengthen laws intended to give women more secure access to land and are combating social norms and practices that stand in their way.


français
Jeune Afrique | 10 dec 2012
RD Congo : 10,5 millions de dollars pour Feronia
Le Fonds pour l'agriculture en afrique (African Agriculture Fund, AAF) va entrer au capital de Feronia, l'ancien Plantations et Huileries du Congo, qui détient et exploite la principale plantation de palmiers à huile en RD Congo.

CNCR | 10 dec 2012
Déclaration findale du Forum International : "Les Exploitations familiales agricoles, principales pourvoyeuses de nourriture et de richesses en Afrique de l'Ouest."
Texte préparé par les représentants des organisations paysannes et des producteurs agricoles membres du CNCR et des autres plates-formes nationales membres du ROPPA, réunis du 20 au 22 Novembre 2012, à Dakar

Xinhua | 10 dec 2012
Des Ong camerounaises pour une réforme foncière pour des cessions de terres sans heurts
Le Cameroun occupe la première place de sa région avec sept projets recensés, devant le Congo qui enregistre trois projets, puis le Gabon et la RDC qui comptent chacun deux projets.

Le Monde | 07 dec 2012
Le Qatar bâtit des fermes dans le désert pour assurer sa sécurité alimentaire
Ce recentrage sur la production locale ne signifie pas que le Qatar abandonne sa politique d'acquisition de terres à l'étranger.

Gabon Review | 07 dec 2012
Accaparement des terres et aménagement du territoire, selon Franck Ndjimbi
Le droit d'occupation et d'utilisation des sols par Olam n'est pas juridiquement prouvé puisque le ministère des Forêts leur a attribué des permis d'exploration. Comment est-on passé d'un permis d'exploration à une occupation du sol ?

AFP | 06 dec 2012
Agriculture: la FAO demande d'aider les producteurs au lieu d'acheter leurs terres
La production agricole a fait un bond phénoménal en 10 ans, mais la FAO déplore que les investissements se concentrent sur les agrocarburants et les achats de terres dans les pays du sud, au détriment des petits producteurs.

Jeune Afrique | 03 dec 2012
Issad Rebrab : l'Afrique, Cevital et moi
Fondateur et patron du premier groupe privé algérien, Cevital, Issad Rebrab sillonne désormais l'Afrique à la recherche d'opportunités d'investissement.


Español
La Nación | 07 dic 2012
FAO alerta por acaparamiento de tierras cultivables
Informe mundial sobre agricultura 2012. Entidad organizará debate mundial sobre negocios de grandes productores. Agricultura más responsable y con énfasis social facilita desarrollo sostenible.


events
3rd Commercial Farm Africa Summit
CMT | Accra, Ghana | 19 Mar 2013
http://www.cmtevents.com/eventschedule.aspx?ev=130103&


farmlandgrab.org weekly provides a list of the latest postings to farmlandgrab.org by email each week
farmlandgrab.org is an open-publishing website, initiated by GRAIN, tracking today's global land grab for food production and people's movements against it

to subscribe to the list, click this link
to unsubscribe from the list, click this link
to visit or post materials to the website, click this link
to contact us, write to [email protected]

Who's involved?

Who's involved?


Languages

  • Amharic
  • Bahasa Indonesia
  • Català
  • Dansk
  • Deutsch
  • English
  • Español
  • français
  • Italiano
  • Kurdish
  • Malagasy
  • Nederlands
  • Português
  • Suomi
  • Svenska
  • Türkçe
  • العربي
  • 日本語


Special content

  • audio
  • contracts
  • off-topic
  • video
  • water
  • wikileaks
  • women


Archives




Latest posts

  • Indignación en un estado de EEUU con Bill Gates
    • AS
    • 30 Jun 2022
  • Le patron de BIO : "Ce que nous faisons n'est pas du néolibéralisme, mais du bon sens"
    • Lalibre
    • 29 Jun 2022
  • Farmland in Karabakh being given to powerful Azerbaijanis - report
    • Eurasianet
    • 28 Jun 2022
  • The impact of unimplemented large-scale land development deals
    • Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
    • 27 Jun 2022
  • Prise de position Socapalm sur Article Jeune Afrique
    • Socapalm
    • 24 Jun 2022
  • Tanzanie : l’homme d’affaires Mohammed Dewji veut injecter 1 milliard $ dans l’agrobusiness sur 3 à 5 ans
    • Agence Ecofin
    • 23 Jun 2022
  • ECOWAS asked to put in place a moratorium on new land-based concessions for industrial plantations
    • Front Page Africa
    • 23 Jun 2022
  • Une délégation africaine devant le siège de l’entreprise belge SIAT pour réclamer leurs terres et exiger le respect des droits humains
    • FIAN Belgium
    • 22 Jun 2022
  • Food security concerns prompt Indiana to ban foreign ownership of agricultural land
    • Indiana Lawyer
    • 22 Jun 2022
  • North Dakota Attorney General's Office looks into Bill Gates-related farmland sale
    • Ag Week
    • 22 Jun 2022
  • Tycoon Dewji takes on Coca-Cola with Tanzania investment ramp up
    • Bloomberg
    • 22 Jun 2022
  • Home

  • About

  • Help

  • Email

  • Privacy

grain.org Back to top