Food crisis and the global land grab
farmlandgrab.org weekly | 14 Mar 2013
Bloomberg | 13 Mar 2013
UK farm management company Velcourt Group said it's planning to invest in farmland in Romania in a joint venture with Mintridge International.
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The Citizen | 13 Mar 2013
Bagamoyo villagers are up in arms over the government supporting an investor they accuse of grabbing about 6,000 hectares of their land in the district.
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GRAIN | 13 Mar 2013
The G8 countries are implementing a New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in six African countries that will facilitate the transfer of control over African agriculture from peasants to foreign agribusiness.
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NZN | 13 Mar 2013
In New Zealand, an opposition party is demanding hard figures on how much farmland is owned by foreigners, but the government says it can't produce the figures.
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SEM | 12 Mar 2013
On 2 March, officials of Swiss company Addax Bioenergy went to install pegs on a large stretch of boli land without reference to the owners of the land and in contrast with the lease agreement which says the company shall only concentrate on the upland.
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The Telegraph | 12 Mar 2013
Britain's biggest farm management company is branching out into agricultural investment in Romania, believing eastern Europe offers far more fertile opportunities than those at home.
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Food Navigator | 12 Mar 2013
Norway's US$710bn sovereign investment fund has pulled its investment from 23 Southeast Asian palm oil companies, claiming that they source palm oil unsustainably.
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Professional Pensions | 11 Mar 2013
The UK's Environmental Agency Pension Fund is still seeking a manager for a £245m 'real asset' mandate, set to include £65m in forestry and farmland.
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Agrimoney | 11 Mar 2013
The 16,000-hectare farm which Första AP-fonden bought in Australia in December was one of a clutch of purchases of farmland, worth some $100m, by the pension fund.
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Capital Times | 10 Mar 2013
Farm advocates fear a loosening of the acreage that can be sold to foreign investors will drive up Wisconsin farmland prices.
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ODI | 08 Mar 2013
This paper seeks to assess the role of investment funds and sovereign wealth funds in large scale land acquisitions overseas through compiling the key findings from existing studies and publications.
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Asia Times | 08 Mar 2013
State agencies and private companies are seeking to acquire increasingly larger tracts of farmland in the hopes of enticing foreign partners.
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ASO | 08 Mar 2013
The army's attack on indigenous communities is suspected to be directly related to a land grab in the area by the Turkish company Tekron Group.
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Watershed Sentinel | 07 Mar 2013
Land grabs in Canada have not been well-documented. Provinces do not keep inventory on large-scale land acquisitions. This blind eye approach has some people, particularly farmers, worried.
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FOEE | 07 Mar 2013
A new report from Friends of the Earth finds that the EU is importing the equivalent of 1,212,050 square kilometres to meet its demand for food, contributing to climate change, biodiversity loss and land-grabbing.
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Reuters | 07 Mar 2013
Major asset managers, cowed by the cost, the risk and the controversy involved in investing in farmland, are joining forces to increase investment in the historically under-capitalised sector.
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RRI | 07 Mar 2013
Africa remains a target for land-grab developments worth billions; regional dialogue in Yaoundé focuses on the need for speed
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awasMIFEE | 02 Mar 2013
People in Indonesia consider the food crisis as an excuse, deliberately created so that corporations could assert control over the necessary business which is central to most people's lives.
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Indian Ocean Newsletter | 01 Mar 2013
The private investment arm of the World Bank, is going to back the medium-term expansion of ETC Group (ETG), incorporated in Mauritius and specializing trading in food and drink products.
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Redress Information & Analysis | 01 Mar 2013
With the coming of big industrial farms in Ethiopia, local people, villagers and pastoralists are being threatened, intimidated, forcibly displaced and herded into camps by the military, their homes destroyed.
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CGIAR | 20 Feb 2013
With 6 million hectares earmarked for agricultural commercialization, notably rubber plantations, millions of Burmese have been or stand to be dispossessed of land.
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| 14 Feb 2013
Video of the seminar on global land grabs and food sovereignty featuring Alexandra Spieldoch, Jim Harkness of IATP and Redwan Hamaza of the Oromia Human Rights and Justice Council.
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Basta! | 12 mar 2013
Alors que 13 000 personnes vivraient sur les terres allouées à Addax Bioenergy, le réseau Silnorf demande que « le droit à la sécurité alimentaire soit effectivement mis en œuvre en Sierra Leone ».
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Contrepoints | 12 mar 2013
La Côte d'Ivoire met à disposition du Groupe Louis Dreyfus plusieurs milliers d'hectares agricoles. Quelle est la légitimité d'un tel contrat ?
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L'Avenir | 09 mar 2013
La population locale, vu la faiblesse de la société civile dans les pays du Sud, a du mal à s'opposer à ce phénomène. Elle réagit surtout en documentant le processus, raconte Laurent Delcourt du Centre tricontinental de Louvain-la-Neuve (CETRI)
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VoA | 07 mar 2013
A l'occasion de ce "Dialogue régional de Yaoundé", les experts ont fait valoir que les gouvernements africains se dessaisissent de vastes étendues de terres, tout en tardant à reconnaître les droits fonciers des populations locales et des communautés autochtones.
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Fasozine | 27 fev 2013
Pas une des «dix géants» de l'agroalimentaire - Associated British Foods, Coca-Cola, Danone, General Mills, Kellogg's, Mars, Mondelez, Nestlé, Pepsico et Unilever - ne prône la tolérance zéro contre les accaparements de terres dans leurs chaînes d'approvisionnement.
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Greenpeace | 19 fev 2013
Herakles Farms a désigné Nestlé, Unilever, McDonalds et Walmart comme clients potentiels pour son huile de palme, ce qui est impossible. Car ces sociétés se sont engagées à des politiques d'achat dits "responsables".
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IRIN | 30 jan 2013
Le nouveau code agricole limite la part des investissements étrangers dans les terres agricoles en RDC à 49 pour cent mais le gouvernement prévoit de réviser cette clause.
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DF | 11 mar 2013
El presidente de Uruguay, José Mujica, ratificó a la dirigencia de la Asociación Rural del Uruguay (ARU) que el gobierno aplicará impuestos a los propietarios de mayores extensiones de campos, y les informó que se restringirá la venta de tierras a extranjeros.
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| 08 mar 2013
La matriz de uso del agua a nivel mundial identifica a la agricultura como el mayor consumidor de este recurso, aproximadamente el 70% del agua que se extrae es empleada en los sistemas agropecuarios.
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Rebelión | 08 mar 2013
El reciente debate sucitado a raíz de la declaración de inconstitucionalidad de los artículos 1º y 2º del Impuesto a la Concentración de Inmuebles Rurales (ICIR, Ley 18.876) votada el 28/12/2011 por la bancada oficialista y con férrea oposición de los partidos de derecha y las patronales rurales, ha evidenciado las posiciones del espectro político y social de nuestro país relativas al modelo económico que defienden. No analizaremos aquí las razones jurídicas de la Suprema Corte de Justicia, sino las características del impuesto, sus efectos y, lo más interesante de todo, las posibles razones que explican los diferentes posicionamientos públicos.
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Palvraberta | 13 Feb 2013
Entrevista com o governo federal deputado Luiz Nishimori
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Land Grabbing in Afrika
FIAN | Wien | 10 Apr 2013
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