'We want our land back': Liberian communities speak out about big palm oil
    “We want our land back,” said Bindu Kannea, a mother and a farmer who lives in Grand Cape Mount County. In Liberia community resistance to palm oil expansion is about protecting their last remaining pieces of land.
    • Mongabay
    • 10 August 2015
    Politics of investment in large scale agricultural ventures
    The AgriSol investment is a good case in justifying that in Tanzania it is the state which grabs on behalf of the investors as opposed in other areas where land is acquired illegally.
    • Guardian
    • 08 July 2012
    Harvard's billion-dollar farmland fiasco
    One of the world's major buyers of farmland is under fire for their involvement in land conflicts, environmental destruction and risky investments. A new report by GRAIN and Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos presents, for the first time, a comprehensive analysis of Harvard University's controversial investments in global farmland.
    • GRAIN and Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos
    • 06 September 2018
    Farmer-scientist group says no to public land lease to foreign corporations
    We challenge the line agencies, legislators and national government to immediately stop the leasing of public land to foreign corporations. Instead, public lands that have huge potential to ensure food security and nation building should be distributed to Filipino small farmers.
    • MASIPAG
    • 24 June 2009
    Land grabbing by agribusiness also claims lives in Latin America
    Cresud controls 370,000 ha in the province of Salta, in the ancestral lands of the Wichi people, where, in the first months of 2020, nine children died from malnutrition and lack of water.
    • GRAIN
    • 06 Mar 2020
    Ethiopia plans to rent out Belgium-sized land area to produce cash crops
    “If we get money [from renting out our land] we can buy food anywhere. Then we can solve [Ethiopia's] food problem,” says Abera Deressa, minister of state for agriculture
    • Bloomberg
    • 26 October 2010
    BRICS grab African land and sovereignty
    BRICS states, except Russia, are enhancing and facilitating land grabs abroad in a way that is inconsistent with their proclamations of sustainable development, cooperation solidarity, and respect of national sovereignty.
    • Pambazuka
    • 28 Mar 2013
    The labor of land
    In order to better resist contemporary, neocolonial accumulation, we need to historicize land grabs in Africa.
    • Africa is a Country
    • 30 December 2022
    Punjab farmers take up Ethiopian offer
    A group of farmers from Punjab are planning to take 1 lakh hectare land on lease in the African nation of Ethiopia for cultivation.
    • Sikh Sangat News
    • 11 July 2010
    Water scarcity, food security concerns prompt global land grab
    Area nearly the size of France purchased, leased for food production around the world Africa, South America, parts of Europe targeted by cash-rich, food-poor nations
    • Circle of Blue
    • 17 November 2009
    Mauritius could hand over 2 islands to India
    India and Mauritius have resumed discussions over a proposal to hand over the twin islands of Agalega to India for tourism development and possibly agriculture.
    • Financial Express
    • 14 October 2010
    Meles Zenawi says no land grab in Ethiopia—not today, not tomorrow
    The government has not presented satisfactory and truthful explanations about its actions, let alone credible defense of its role as agency and facilitator of the abominable practices of farmland grabbing.
    • tramnsformingethiopia
    • 11 August 2011
    GCC for joint farm fund to cut import bill
    The UAE and other Gulf oil producers are considering creating a giant fund to invest in farm in fertile Arab areas and other nations to slash a soaring import bill and ease reliance on foreign markets for their food.
    • Emirates Business 24/7
    • 03 September 2008
    Booming Gulf looks overseas for agriculture needs
    Gulf nations now are quietly scouring the globe for rich farmland to rent or buy outright.
    • Associated Press
    • 16 November 2008
    Group wants state-led agribusiness firm abolished
    A group of food security advocates wants a Philippine government-led corporation that identifies new land suitable for local and foreign agricultural businesses abolished.
    • GMA News
    • 26 July 2010
    Middle Eastern investors “grab” Sudan farmland
    Dalla Al Baraka, a Saudi conglomerate with $5 billion in annual revenue, has acquired two million acres of farmland in eastern Sudan to produce food for export to the Middle Eastern kingdom. While the investors are hoping to wean Saudi Arabia off imports from South America, such agreements cause concern among local Sudanese farmers.
    • CorpWatch
    • 30 April 2012
    Coffee colonialism: Olam plantation displaces Lao farmers
    Between the farmers and Olam lies one of Lao’s most powerful, and some allege, corrupt families, the Siphandones.
    • CorpWatch
    • 04 June 2012
    Au-delà de la ruée vers les terres africaines, l’enjeu de la main-d’œuvre
    La ruée vers le foncier africain a suscité une attention particulière ces dernières années. Mais ce phénomène est rarement abordé sous l’angle du marché du travail et de la main-d’œuvre. Pour Rama Salla Dieng, il est temps d’historiciser l’accaparement des terres afin de mieux y résister.
    • Arique XXI
    • 02 January 2023
    Asia: Land grabs threaten food security
    Sam Pov, a rice farmer in Cambodia’s western Battambang Province, is very worried that his land will be taken over by a foreign investor.
    • IRIN
    • 10 June 2009
    Who owns Australia?
    Complex web of data reveals large swathes of country controlled by small number of billionaires and large companies
    • Guardian
    • 16 May 2021
    Robert Kuok's plantation firm eyes Myanmar as next sugar frontier
    Wilmar says it plans to expand its oil palm plantations holdings in West Africa and to start producing sugar in Burma.
    • Forbes
    • 08 August 2013
    Egypt to grow wheat in Uganda
    Uganda has agreed to allow Egypt to cultivate wheat on Ugandan soil.
    • Daily News Egypt
    • 12 January 2010
    How best to invest in agriculture: Discussion with Ravi Sood
    Lawrence Asset Management's Ravi Sood suggests investing in food production in low-cost areas that are water-rich – Brazil, tropical Africa, Malaysia and Indonesia.
    • Globe and Mail
    • 11 January 2010
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