Food crisis and the global land grab
farmlandgrab.org weekly | 05-Jan-2011
The National | 05-Jan-2011
Abu Dhabi acquired 30,000 ha of Sudanese farmland last June through the ADFD to grow alfalfa, a crop used to feed cattle.
|
Tripoli Post | 04-Jan-2011
Libyan officials said that they could allocate 60,000 hectares of field for Turkish investors for production of wheat and corn.
|
Ethiomedia | 04-Jan-2011
In Ethiopia, resentments over land grab have already started claiming lives. The TPLF regime has already killed 10 protesting ethnic Anuak farmers and has sent thousands more to concentration camps.
|
CNBC | 03-Jan-2011
Finding suitable farmland investment vehicles is not as easy as one might think.
|
La Voz del Interior | 03-Jan-2011
El mundo asiste a una vertiginosa carrera de compra de tierras fértiles, sobre todo en África y Sudamérica.
|
Business Day | 31-Dec-2010
The government of Georgia is offering state-owned farmland, for purchase, to farmer members of the Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU) in South Africa
|
Farm Weekly | 30-Dec-2010
"We want to make agriculture sexy," says the head of Macquaraie's Retail Agribuiness operation.
|
Yahya Kane | 30-Dec-2010
Ce hold-up avait été révélé au grand public en juillet 2010 par Eveil Hebdo qui mettait en cause le président Ould Aziz sur le point de signer un décret qui pourrait octroyait 50 000 ha de terrain à la société saoudienne Tabouk-Eziraiya dans la commune de Boghé.
|
Río Negro | 28-Dec-2010
La legisladora del ARI, Magdalena Odarda, manifestó sus coincidencias con los posicionamientos de la Pastoral Social de la Patagonia
|
AN Bariloche | 25-Dec-2010
Los Departamentos de Pastoral Social de las Diócesis de San Carlos de Bariloche expresaron su desacuerdo “con el alquiler de tierras públicas o privadas ni a grandes Pools de Siembra, sean argentinos o extranjeros, ni a provincias de un país como China”
|
Jornada Net | 21-Dec-2010
Ciudadanos brasileños y peruanos controlan en la frontera boliviana tierras agrícolas, denunció este lunes Juan Ramón Quintana, director de la Agencia para el Desarrollo de las Macrorregiones y Zonas Fronteriza
|
Lexology | 16-Dec-2010
The shift of power in Australia’s Federal Parliament, which is now largely in the hands of a few independents representing rural and regional constituencies, combined with the increasingly vocal calls for scrutiny of foreign investment has sent signals of a more protectionist stance for Australian agriculture.
|
Arab News | 12-Dec-2010
If former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke has his way, Saudi Arabia will produce its food in Australia.
|
Daily Nation | 10-Dec-2010
A wikileaks cable discusses the transfer of the Lamu port deal from Qatar to China. Little word about the fate of the 40,0000 ha of farmland promised to Qatar, however.
|
Gulf Times | 02-Dec-2010
Argentina Tourism Minister Carlos Meyer has hailed Qatar Airways’ flights from Buenos Aires to Doha as an important step for enhanced ties between the two countries, including farmland acquisitions.
|
Inades-Formation | 25-Nov-2010
Les membres de la 13ème Assemblée Générale d’Inades-Formation International, réunis à Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire) du 22 au 25 novembre 2010, dénoncent avec vigueur l’odieuse pratique d’accaparement des terres.
|
Reuters | 11-Nov-2010
Tanzania expects South Korea to begin farming 15,000 hectares of land in the east African country early next year for food production and processing, a senior official said on Thursday.
|
Convenio que el Gobernador Miguel Saiz (UCR) firmara con el Estado de la República China para la entrega de 254.500 hectáreas de la Provincia de Río Negro
|
GPS | 22-Jul-2010
50 000 hectares de terrain dans la commune de Boghé pourraient être octroyés à la société saoudienne Tabouk-Eziraiya si le président mauritanien signait un décret dans ce sens.
|
The Citizen | 19-Oct-2009
The Government has ordered 2000 squatters out of land meant for large-scale paddy farming in Kilombero district, Morogoro region.
|
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]