The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch shows how land grabbing aggravates hunger in Africa, Asia and Latin America by leading to eviction of peasant communities from their main source of livelihood.
- RTFN-Watch
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07 October 2010
Quietly, these modern-day land marauders are coming to Canada—undermining family farms, compromising local food sovereignty, and harming the environment.
- Dominion
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27 September 2010
Some projects aimed at increasing food production in Asia have been dropped or delayed amid the financial crisis, notes a new report by IRRI and the Asia Society.
- Wall St Journal
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26 September 2010
Over the past year, I have been collecting material on biofuels, land rights in Africa, and global land grabbing. Reading through this material worries me greatly, for it carries very strong echoes of Cecil Rhodes and his merry men.
Jordan's stalled Sudan agricultural investment project is no longer feasible, as no one will pay the infrastructure costs to transport water.
- Jordan Times
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21 September 2010
Du point de vue de GRAIN, ce rapport très attendu de la Banque mondiale est à la fois une déception et un échec.
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.
- Le Figaro
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08 September 2010
Fonterra says it is having a "very close look" at relaunching a processing business in China as it faces a rapidly growing competitive threat from Chinese manufacturing startups with their own large-scale dairy farms.
- Business Day
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30 August 2010
La polémique autour de l'accaparement de terres, en particulier en Afrique, est relancée par une étude de la Banque mondiale qui tarde à être publiée alors que le cours du blé repart à la hausse
It is not too late for equitable partnerships to flourish between foreign investors and local communities.
Macquarie Group's agricultural division has launched a new cropping fund that will buy large-scale grain properties in Australia and Brazil.
- Stock & Land
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16 August 2010
Australia's opposition leader Tony Abbott said his Liberal-National coalition of center-right parties could revise the country's foreign investment laws if it wins power in the Aug. 21 general election.
A group of food security advocates wants a Philippine government-led corporation that identifies new land suitable for local and foreign agricultural businesses abolished.
"Le fait de donner à un pays étranger une partie de son propre territoire n’est pas nécessairement néfaste. C’est surtout une question de prix et de conditions."
- Les Afriques
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24 July 2010
Africa's untapped agriculture potential make it an ideal partner for resource-constrained Middle Eastern countries that seek to improve their food security, a new report from Standard Chartered Bank said.
- Trade Arabia
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22 July 2010
Anthony "Chocfinger" Ward, the commodities trader whose group Armajaro Holdings has just cornered the cocoa market, is planning his next move into food.
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
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11 July 2010
Private equity firms like Rabo Equity Advisors and IL&FS Investment Managers may be in talks with Karuturi.
Le gouvernement français vient de publier un rapport sur les cessions de terres agricoles, dans les pays du Sud, aux investisseurs étrangers
Evidence suggests a marked disparity in the benefits received by those involved in and affected by these transnational land acquisitions, particularly for those originally dwelling on the land.
- Brookings Institution
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25 June 2010
Outline of major Ukraine companies open to farmland investors
ILC is actually trying to promote some sort of dialogue between the different proposals for principles for responsible farmland investment
World Bank's MIGA provides political risk insurance for Chayton Capital's $50 million farmland investments in southern Africa.
Singapore could gain access to a major new source of meat, fruit and vegetables if a massive new farming project in north-eastern China takes off
- Straits Times
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21 May 2010
A German investment fund that bought a majority interest in a Southland dairy farm, Aquila Capital's AgrarInvest, also has shareholdings in three other Kiwi dairy companies.
- Southland Times
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18 May 2010
Le Fonds pour l’agriculture en Afrique sera financé par la Banque africaine de développement (Bad) et l’Agence française de développement (AFD) à hauteur de 40 millions de dollars chacun.
De nombreux paysans camerounais désapprouvent la politique gouvernementale visant l’octroi de vastes espaces cultivables à des investisseurs étrangers
- Journal du Cameroun
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17 May 2010
Rural people in several parts of Cameroon are protesting a government policy that allows the government to sell or lease vast parcels of arable land to foreign investors.
The Journal of Peasant Studies, in collaboration with the Land Deal Politics Initiative, is organizing an international academic workshop on ‘Global Land Grabbing’ to be held on 6-8 April 2011 at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
Le Conseil des ministres a adopté hier le projet de loi fixant les conditions et modalités d’exploitation de terres agricoles relevant du domaine privé de l’Etat. L’ouverture au partenariat étranger est exclue.