“Moving beyond misconceptions: Korean investment in Cambodia” is a series of three reports. It comprises a critical review of Korean investment in Cambodia as well as two extensive investment case studies, one in mining (Kenertec) and the other in agri-business (MH Ethanol).
- Heinrich Böll Foundation
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19 December 2012
A heated debate ensued yesterday in Tanzania's Parliament after Kawe lawmaker Halima Mdee moved a private motion calling on the House to adopt a resolution pressing the government to suspend the allocation of huge chunks of land for investment to foreigners.
- Guardian
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09 November 2012
The problems of access to land for women and communities have been worsened by the land grab perpetuated by multinationals and society's wealthy.
The New South Wales Farmers Association, in Australia, has switched policies to back much tighter restrictions on foreign companies and investment funds buying Australian farmland.
- The Australian
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16 October 2012
One of the greatest threats Africa has ever faced is the impact from this new phenomenon of land-grabbing
- AllAfrica
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21 September 2012
February 2012 workshop in Ouidah, Benin brought together over thirty participants from farmer organisations and NGOs in West and Central Africa to share experiences and analysis of land grabs.
Social organisations are shocked and offended by a Wall Street Journal article written by the FAO Director General and EBRD President that calls on governments to embrace corporations as the main engine for global food production.
- La Via Campesina, GRAIN, FOE et al
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14 September 2012
IFAD President, Dr Anayo Nwanze, while speaking at a forum in Abuja, on Sunday, said that the term land grab gave an impression that the people’s land were being taken over without their consent.
- Daily Times
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27 August 2012
The Indonesian government’s long-discussed plan to launch a massive food estate in Merauke, Papua, in a bid to boost the nation’s food production is facing uncertainty amid land acquisition problems, a top ministry official says.
- Jakarta Post
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12 July 2012
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.
The land grab phenomenon in Sudan...resembles a fata morgana, a mirage in the desert which completely distorts the object on which it is based
The Gillard Government (Australia) has announced a working group to consult on the development of a Commonwealth foreign ownership register for agricultural land.
Multinazionali e governi stranieri stanno correndo ad accaparrarsi terre in Africa, per garantirsi cibo e biofuel. Il nuovo colonialismo avanza e minaccia centinaia di milioni di contadini
Six foreign-owned companies are currently trying to secure over 1 million hectares (about 2.5 million acres) of land for the production of palm oil in the country's forested southern zone, according to a coalition of environmental organisations.
India's Mahakaushal Sugar and Power Industries has acquired 12,000 ha, and more efforts are being made to acquire an additional 15,000 ha, along Lower Rufiji River basin in Utunge Ward, Tanzania.
- Tanzania Daily News
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22 May 2012
The processes of concentration, foreign ownership and land degradation came to be a central concern of supranational bodies and NGOs that warn of the “negative effects of these phenomena on food security, agricultural employment and the development of family farming.”
- Latinamerica Press
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25 April 2012
The estimate used by the Prime Minister John Key that less than 1 percent of New Zealand farmland is foreign-owned is far below the mark according to an analysis of Overseas Investment Office decisions carried out by CTU Economist, Bill Rosenberg.
In an effort to improve food security, the government has been investing in agriculture projects abroad, especially in Vietnam, Cambodia, Egypt, Pakistan, Romania, Sudan and the Americas, to secure food supplies and safeguard against market fluctuations.
- Gulf News
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20 February 2012
A controversial plan approved by Tajikistan’s Ministry of Agriculture to lease 6,000 hectares of land to China for development has been met with suspicion by some members of the country’s political opposition
- Jamestown Foundation
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13 February 2012
On his farm at Coleambally, NSW, John Ward admits he is feeling emotional about how foreign investment into Australian agricultural land has been handled.
- Stock & Land
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02 February 2012
Report examines the driving factors behind foreign investment in Australian agriculture and describes processes by which foreign investment in farmland is monitored and regulated in Australia and other selected countries.
Chinese company presidents met with Australian officials and company reps in Sydney to discuss ag investments, ranging from a $25 million, 20,000 ha cotton farm to a $350 million farmland purchase in Western Australia and Queensland.
- Stock & Land
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17 January 2012
No evidence to support the idea that “China” was intending to create an agricultural colony in Mozambique, or make the Zambezi Valley into China’s rice bowl.
- chinaafricarealstory.com
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12 January 2012
The level and manner of foreign investment in Australian agriculture is sounding alarm bells amid growing concern that the nation's own food security could be compromised.
- NZ Herald
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07 January 2012
Editor of Banking Magazine, El Tijani Hussein Al Khabeir, says that Sudan is capable of feeding one quarter of world population and five folds of Arab countries population
- Sudan Vision Daily
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15 December 2011
Foreigners currently have more than 700,000 ha of agricultural land in Romania, representing 8.5 percent of the arable land of the country, says Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Peasant movements concur that in the absence of control over their lands, real food sovereignty is impossible.
- Via Campesina
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20 November 2011
The Ethiopian government has miserably failed to engage and convince citizens about the present and long-term implications of farmland grabbing.
- Abugida Info
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21 October 2011
Bloomberg's Alan Katz reports on Morgan Stanley's farming venture on the steppes of Ukraine which it abandoned in July 2009. The failed gamble demonstrates how Wall Street firms, in the last gasp of a debt-fueled bull market, strayed further from their traditional businesses to embrace diverse projects with unfamiliar risks.
- Bloomberg
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05 October 2011
Shadow minister for agriculture and food security, John Cobb, said it was concerning that in the past three years there had been a 10-fold increase in foreign investment in ownership and control of agricultural supply lines.
- Beef Central
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12 September 2011