Food crisis and the global land grab
farmlandgrab.org weekly | 02 Jan 2013
Addis Fortune | 30 Dec 2013
The Ministry of Agriculture is working on a draft bill for the formation of an autonomous federal agency, which would administer land available for agricultural investment in Ethiopia.
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The Land | 02 Jan 2013
Winter 2012-2013 issue of The Land magazine
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NY Times | 01 Jan 2013
Jacob Ostreicher was a flooring contractor and father of five from Borough Park, Brooklyn, who, like more than a few entrepreneurs battered by the recession, decided to seek his fortune abroad. In his case, he went into rice farming in Bolivia.
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Down to Earth | 29 Dec 2012
According to the data presented by international non-profit Rights and Resource Initiative, Indian companies have acquired 63,000 sq km land, an area almost twice the size of Kerala, in Africa, South America and Southeast Asia.
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The Guardian | 28 Dec 2012
Tanzania has set a ceiling for investors wanting to buy its agricultural land, a move welcomed by land rights campaigners
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AIM | 26 Dec 2012
The Mozambican government has insisted that no farmer will lose land as a result of the “Pro-Savana” agricultural development programme in the north of the country.
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LA Times | 26 Dec 2012
Investors snap up California acreage, pushing prices to record highs, as global appetites for almonds and pistachios increase.
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Institutional Investor | 24 Dec 2012
Retirement fund and financial services firm TIAA-CREF is helping to meet the growing institutional demand for sustainably managed farmland, which can deliver stable returns above inflation.
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Amnesty International | 26 dec 2012
Une centaine de militants ont repris la chorégraphie « Gangnam style » pour exiger la fin des expulsions forcées et de l’accaparement des terres au Cambodge
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La France Agricole | 24 dec 2012
Les investisseurs étrangers ne sont plus autorisés à acheter des terres agricoles en Hongrie, en vertu d'une loi votée par le Parlement et qualifiée d'« historique » par le gouvernement.
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Jeune Afrique | 20 dec 2012
Autre thème sensible, l'accaparement des terres. « Je suis contre, bien entendu, et j'en toucherai deux mots sur place », assure Guillaume Garot, alors que des entreprises françaises sont aujourd'hui à l'oeuvre sur le continent, notamment pour la production de biocarburants.
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Press Gauche | 18 dec 2012
En Colombie, la politique d’appropriation étrangère a pu compter sur le soutien des gouvernements toujours complaisants avec ce type d’investissement.
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Radio Moçambique | 26 Dec 2012
O governo reitera que nenhum agricultor perderá as suas áreas de cultivo em resultado de implementação do Programa de Cooperação Triangular para o Desenvolvimento Agrícola das Savanas Tropicais e Moçambique.
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