Food crisis and the global land grab
farmlandgrab.org weekly | 16-Sep-2010
GRAIN | 15-Sep-2010
GRAIN says the World Bank's much anticipated report on the global farmland grab is both a disappointment and a failure.
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Christian Science Monitor | 14-Sep-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.
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Folha de São Paulo | 13-Sep-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.
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IRIN | 13-Sep-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
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Ouest France | 13-Sep-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
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Novethic | 13-Sep-2010
Pour Oxfam France, il faut surtout agir sur les questions commerciales, laissées en plan par le rapport de la Banque mondiale.
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Global Donor Platform | 13-Sep-2010
The eDiscussion will take place from 13 September to 8 October and is open to all.
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Jakarta Post | 13-Sep-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.
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Moscow Times | 13-Sep-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.
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Global Times | 12-Sep-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.
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Hürriyet Daily News | 12-Sep-2010
Foreign investors are increasingly focusing on opportunities in Turkish agriculture, according to Mehmet Erdo?an, chairman of Sezon Pirinç, a rice company
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The Telegraph | 12-Sep-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.
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Tribune de Genève | 11-Sep-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.
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Reuters | 11-Sep-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.
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Ground Reality | 10-Sep-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."
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CTA | 10-Sep-2010
Le Briefing régional sur le développement rural en Afrique Centrale « Accès à la terre, acquisitions de terres et développement rural: nouveaux enjeux, nouvelles opportunités » se tiendra à Yaoundé, Cameroun, les 27 et 28 septembre 2010
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CTA | 10-Sep-2010
A CTA Rural Development Briefing in Central Africa on “Land access, land acquisitions and rural development: New challenges, new opportunities” will be held in Yaoundé, Cameroun, on 27-28th September 2010
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Uprising Radio | 10-Sep-2010
While the Bank warns of a lack of transparency and the potential harm to poor people, it ultimately endorses the land grabs in the name of productivity and sound investment.
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EU Observer | 10-Sep-2010
In a 164-page report that actually endorses the practice of the sale of vast tracts of agricultural land to foreign buyers, the global lender nevertheless frets over the fall-out of northern legislation that makes investors view every farm, jungle and meadow in the third world the same way they view an oil field, says the EU Observer
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La Primera | 10-Sep-2010
En la Comisión Agraria del Congreso Peruano existen dos proyectos de ley que buscan limitar la concentración de tierras en pocas manos: uno establece un límite máximo de adquisición de 40 mil hectáreas agrícolas, otro de 10 mil.
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BBC Mundo | 10-Sep-2010
El Banco Mundial (BM) pidió la aplicación de controles más estrictos a la compra de grandes extensiones de tierra agrícola en países en desarrollo.
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Verts/ALE au PE | 09-Sep-2010
"L'urgence n'est pas de multiplier sur l'ensemble de la planète un modèle unique agro-industriel qui a fait faillite. Il faut au contraire lancer un programme international en faveur de l'agriculture familiale," s'exclame Jose Bové du Parlement Européen
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Maghreb Confidential | 09-Sep-2010
Le ministre algérien de l’agriculture examine une série de candidatures étrangères -- des investisseurs européens, canadiens et arabes -- en vue de l’exploitation de terres agricoles dans le pays.
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GMA News | 09-Sep-2010
The Philippine government has identified 10,000 ha for the Bahrain banana project in Davao del Norte. It also awaits follow-up visits from Saudi Arabia to finalize a $238.6m deal the kingdom committed to invest in fruit, aquaculture and halal food production.
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Phnom Penh Post | 09-Sep-2010
In Cambodia, an assessment of the impact of foreign farmland acquisitions has been hampered by a lack of data, including the total number of concessions awarded and an accurate set of GPS coordinates for each concession, the World Bank says.
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Le Figaro | 08-Sep-2010
Avec son rapport publié ce mercredi, la Banque mondiale met le pied sur une poudrière. Intitulé «L'intérêt croissant pour les terres agricoles dans le monde peut-il apporter de bénéfices équitables à long terme?», il relance la guerre entre industriels et paysans.
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EFE | 08-Sep-2010
Según el Banco Mundial, antes de 2008 la expansión anual promedio de tierras agrícolas en todo el mundo era de menos de 4 millones de hectáreas, pero "antes de que terminara 2009 se habían anunciado contratos de compraventa de tierras en gran escala por 45 millones de hectáreas".
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Phnom Penh Post | 07-Sep-2010
HLH Agriculture is a Singaporean firm running 10,000 ha project in Cambodia to produce corn for export to Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand.
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Bloomberg | 01-Sep-2010
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is seeking a partnership with Brazilian billionaire Rubens Ometto and soybean grower Blairo Maggi to buy farmland in the South American country, Relatorio Reservado reported.
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Business Day | 01-Sep-2010
The number of investment projects in the agricultural sector in sub-Saharan Africa is at "unprecedented" levels, said Paul Runge of Africa Project Access at the ag investment conference in Durban
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Reuters | 01-Sep-2010
Galtere, a New York fund manager, said it was raising $1 billion to invest in production facilities for agricultural commodities -- including arable farmlands in countries such as Australia, Brazil and Uruguay -- that it planned to later sell or list publicly.
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Journal du Cameroun | 17-May-2010
De nombreux paysans camerounais désapprouvent la politique gouvernementale visant l’octroi de vastes espaces cultivables à des investisseurs étrangers
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