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Food crisis and the global land grab
farmlandgrab.org weekly | 21 Nov 2012

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Bloomberg | 21 Nov 2012
Ukraine extends ban on farmland sales by three years to 2016
Ukraine’s parliament extended a ban on sales of farmland by three years to January 2016, giving time to prepare related legislation.

Colombia Reports | 21 Nov 2012
Colombia seeking to regulate foreign investment in agriculture
A bill presented before Colombia's congress on Tuesday seeks to increase regulation of foreign investment in Colombia's land and agriculture.

Oakland Institute | 21 Nov 2012
Take action to stop palm oil plantations from destroying Africa's ancient rainforests and local livelihoods in Cameroon
Send a message to Herakles Farms and All for Africa demanding they stop destroying tropical rainforest and local livelihoods and ask the Government of Cameroon to listen to the voices of the Cameroonian people.

EJOLT | 20 Nov 2012
Silas Siakor: landgrabbing in Liberia
The government allocated some 350.000 hectares to Sime Darby, a Malaysian multinational. But people only came to know about this deal when the company showed up to take their land.

Kepa | 19 Nov 2012
Kaapattu maa
Report in Finnish on the global landgrab, published by Kepa

Reuters | 19 Nov 2012
Analysis: Foreign investors in Australian farms; rash or prescient?
For all the willing buyers seeking tracts of Australian farm land, local investors are not among them. They wonder what all the fuss is about.

Arkansas Business | 19 Nov 2012
Profits lure investors to farmland In Arkansas
Continued economic uncertainties are prompting a back-to-the-land movement among investors. And a favored choice of land is farmland.

All Voices | 18 Nov 2012
Oil palm firm, group clash over land grab
Oil palm giant, Wilmar Nigeria Limited, and the Rainforest Resource and Development Centre (RRDC), an environmental rights group, are currently at logger heads over a massive land grab in a rural community in Cross River State, Southern Nigeria.

Huffington Post | 17 Nov 2012
African pension funds: The missing link to African development?
Africa is regarded as the New Eldorado, and is attracting many foreign based private or public investment companies, sovereign wealth funds and even pension funds gradually. Sadly, while foreigners continue to play a major role in growth investments, African pension funds' contributions to this growth are dismal.

Bloomberg | 16 Nov 2012
Agco targets Africa’s agriculture boom with $100 million plan
Agco Corp. (AGCO), the world’s third- largest farm-equipment maker, plans to invest $100 million in Africa over the next three years to capitalize on an agricultural boom and a shift to commercial farming.

Survival International | 15 Nov 2012
US food giant Bunge accused over biofuel 'tainted with Indian blood'
US food giant Bunge has been implicated in a sugarcane scandal in Brazil that has kept an entire indigenous community off its land, polluted streams and inflicted illness and death on Guarani Indians.

Arabian Business | 14 Nov 2012
Dubai’s AWGAL in talks to purchase Texas cattle farms
Dubai-based AWGAL Investments is in advanced talks with farmers in Texas to invest in cattle farms to produce Halal-certified US beef for the GCC and MENA region.

Deutsche Bank | 13 Nov 2012
Foreign investment in farmland: No low-hanging fruit
Report by Deutsche Bank examines the global rush for land

EIA | 07 Oct 2012
RSPO fails to act as Muara Tae is destroyed
The credibility of the international Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has been called into question over its failure to act against a company bulldozing ancestral forests and perpetrating human rights abuses in Indonesia.


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Commodesk | 20 nov 2012
Sucre : L’Australie loue ses terres
Les autorités d’Australie de l’Ouest vont signer le 20 novembre un bail de 50 ans avec une société immobilière de Shanghai, chargée de développer 15.200 hectares de terres agricoles.

Maliactu | 19 nov 2012
Ministère de l’Agriculture : 2 174 hectares de terres cultivables seront mis en valeur à Touraba
Le gouvernement de la République du Mali a bien voulu mettre à la disposition de l’UEMOA, sous forme de bail emphytéotique, 11 288 hectares de terres dont 2 174 ha sur le site de Touraba.

AFP | 19 nov 2012
Obama dénonce les violations des droits de l'Homme au Cambodge
Avant l'arrivée de M. Obama à Phnom Penh, des Cambodgiens avaient organisé des manifestations pour attirer son attention sur les expulsions forcées liées à des différends en matière de propriété foncière, un problème de premier plan au Cambodge.

Journal du Mali | 18 nov 2012
Touraba : futur grenier agricole de l’Uemoa ?
2174 ha. C’est la superficie du casier hydraulique de Touraba en zone Office du Niger. Un chantier de l’Uemoa qui vise à créer un pôle agricole sous régional au Mali… Visite guidée.

CED | 16 nov 2012
Cameroun : Le directeur d’une ONG opposée au projet de HERAKLES Farms et 3 de ses collègues arrêtés
La présence de la société HERAKLES dans la région a toujours été perçue comme un facteur d'insécurité pour ceux qui s'opposent au projet, et comme une menace pour les droits des communautés locales.

CED | 16 nov 2012
Afrique Centrale : Un document cadre pour les réformes foncières
Trois organisations ont produit un document de propositions pour un traitement juridique plus adéquat des cessions de terres à grande échelle en Afrique Centrale.

Africa Intelligence | 15 nov 2012
Tunisie : Talleyrand mise sur la terre... et la presse
Détenu à parts égales par le patron de presse Robert Lafont (Lafont presse, plus connu pour son mensuel Entreprendre) et par Gilles Bouchier, le fonds français Talleyrand va mettre un pied dans l'agriculture tunisienne

Pambazuka | 13 nov 2012
Des paysans béninois disent non à l’accaparement des terres
C’est la nouvelle démarche de la Banque mondiale pour rendre « socialement acceptable » l’accaparement de terres qui se développe comme une gangrène en Afrique.


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Diario de Huila | 19 nov 2012
Continúa debate sobre extranjerización de tierras
Por iniciativa del senador Jorge Enrique Robledo, del Polo Democrático Alternativo, la Comisión Quinta del Senado adelantará hoy un nuevo debate al proyecto de ley que busca poner límites al acceso a la propiedad de la tierra en Colombia por parte de personas naturales o jurídicas extranjeras.


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IHU | 16 Nov 2012
Uma corrida por terras de emergentes
A corrida por terras agrícolas levou investidores estrangeiros a adquirir pelo menos 83 milhões de hectares em países em desenvolvimento entre 2000 e 2010, segundo o Deutsche Bank.



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