Food crisis and the global land grab
farmlandgrab.org weekly | 18-Aug-2010
NZ Herald | 18-Aug-2010
Fears foreign interests have been mounting a major land grab in New Zealand, have been shot down by global accountancy firm KPMG.
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RFI | 17-Aug-2010
La polémique autour de l'accaparement de terres, en particulier en Afrique, est relancée par une étude de la Banque mondiale qui tarde à être publiée alors que le cours du blé repart à la hausse
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Financial Times | 17-Aug-2010
Singapore-listed Golden Agri Resources said it was “actively evaluating” taking a share in a 220,000-hectare project being offered by the government of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
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Al Dahra | 16-Aug-2010
Abu Dhabi’s Al Dahra Agricultural Company is halfway through a plan involving more than 60,700 hectares of farmland in Europe, the US, south Asia and north Africa to boost the UAE’s food security.
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Stock & Land | 16-Aug-2010
Australian Liberal senator Bill Heffernan warns that sovereign wealth funds need to be watched because some were "already acquiring other sovereigns' wealth to protect their own food security tasks".
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Tanzania Daily News | 16-Aug-2010
A delegation of Korea experts is expected to arrive in the country to sign a $50 million pact covering an initial 15,000 ha in the Rufiji River Basin.
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Craccum | 16-Aug-2010
States and mega-corporations are snapping up cheap land to produce food and making money at the expense of people in host countries.
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Guardian | 16-Aug-2010
It is not too late for equitable partnerships to flourish between foreign investors and local communities.
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Stock & Land | 16-Aug-2010
Macquarie Group's agricultural division has launched a new cropping fund that will buy large-scale grain properties in Australia and Brazil.
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Bloomberg | 15-Aug-2010
Singapore-based Olam will develop a palm-oil plantation covering as much as 300,000 hectares in the southeast of the country.
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Xinhua | 15-Aug-2010
Olam, multinationale basée à Singapour réalisera un programme de développement de 200.000 hectares de palmeraies pour un investissement total de 800 millions USD.
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Global Land Project | 14-Aug-2010
Study reveals that over 50 million hectares are currently assigned in land deals or under negotiation in 27 African host countries – an area equivalent to France.
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China Daily | 12-Aug-2010
Joint-venture farms that have China's financial and technical support are the future of China-Africa agriculture cooperation says China State Farms Agribusiness Corporation manager.
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Tribune de Genève | 12-Aug-2010
L’ennui, reconnaît la Banque mondiale, c’est que ces investissements, loin d’être une aubaine pour le continent noir, finissent par nuire à des populations déjà pauvres et à des économies précaires.
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Reuters | 10-Aug-2010
From virtually nowhere, China has rocketed to become the biggest foreign direct investor in Brazil this year with purchases ranging from iron ore mines to vast tracts of farmland and the electricity grid.
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CNBC | 02-Aug-2010
BlackRock agriculture fund manager says they are investing in companies that own land and grow crops.
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Ciwara | 29-Jul-2010
Les autorités, les riches entrepreneurs et les investisseurs étrangers partagent les terres de l’office du Niger pour y installer une sorte de colonisation.
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Hardmann & Co | 26-May-2010
We believe that farmland, and agriculture generally, will shortly move beyond the ‘acceptable’ in the eyes of the world’s investment management community and become a core product.
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NHK | 08-Jan-2010
Programme aired on NHK World presenting a documentary by Kohei Tsuji filmed in Ethiopia and Tanzania - in Japanese only - 35 minutes
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