Sources close to Al-Amoudi said that the king has shown an interest in seeing other Saudi companies involved in rice farming after seeing the samples presented by Al-Amoudi
- Addis Fortune
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24 November 2009
In Mali the government has approved long-term leases for outside investors to develop more than 160,000 hectares of land. Local farmers say they fear being pushed out.
Au Mali, le gouvernement a approuvé des baux à long terme permettant à des investisseurs extérieurs de mettre en valeur plus de 160 000 hectares de terre, mais des agriculteurs locaux disent avoir peur d’être chassés.
"On today's Human Rights Day, we demand that States fulfill their obligation to respect and protect the right to food of their citizens and abroad by preventing large scale land grabbing" says Sofia Monsalve of FIAN International.
"Personnellement je ne vois pas ce que les petits producteurs peuvent gagner avec des investissements privés étrangers de masse." Un entretien avec Moussa Djiré.
- Défis Sud
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18 November 2009
Citadel Capital will deploy significant capital across East Africa in 2010 in sectors spanning from agriculture to consumer foods.
- Business Daily
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29 December 2009
The much-discussed Congo land-lease, granting 200,000 hectares to South African farmers with a further 10 million hectares in the balance, appears to mark a departure from the usual terms underpinning foreign acquisition of fertile land by multinationals
- Pambazuka
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07 January 2010
Uganda has agreed to allow Egypt to cultivate wheat on Ugandan soil.
- Daily News Egypt
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12 January 2010
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
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11 January 2010
He confirmed that the Ministry received very wide offers of investment by Arab and foreign investors.
- IRAQdirectory.com
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09 January 2010
The media and environmentalists must intensify their focus on the environmental costs of international farmland transactions.
- World Politics Review
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20 January 2010
A foreign company intends to clear 10 000 hectares of land in the Bwabwata National Park in northern Namibia in order to set up a large-scale irrigation scheme for crop farming
- The Namibian
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22 January 2010
The Indonesian government is wise to learn from the South Korea Daewoo-Madagascar deal, which demonstrated the enormous economic, social and political risks associated with foreign ownership of land and water rights.
- CSR Asia
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03 February 2010
Standard Chartered Bank's Africa private equity arm and a unit of Reliance Capital are in talks to invest in Dubai-based Karuturi Overseas.
- VC Circle
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09 February 2010
There is something amazingly patronising in the way Payne claims that Emergent has ‘adopted’ a Mozambican village of 3,000 people and hired its citizens to clear 2,000 acres of land to farm it with her firm.
- Agriprods
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18 February 2010
A discussion note prepared by FAO, IFAD, UNCTAD and the World Bank Group to contribute to an ongoing global dialogue.
- World Bank
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25 January 2010
More radical steps are being taken to increase production, both by the government, which recently approved two new strains of genetically modified rice, and by agricultural entrepreneurs, who are buying and cultivating land in neighbouring countries.
- Guardian
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23 February 2010
"If the government wants to eliminate famine, it should give farmers access to more land, and not give it away for corporations"
- Jakarta Globe
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04 Mar 2010
Right now communities in Latin America, as around the world, are suffering a new kind of invasion of their territories
Plusieurs pays avec une forte croissance démographique cherchent à acquérir des terres agricoles hors de leurs frontières, avec en toile de fond la crise alimentaire. Cette quête conduit notamment des entreprises chinoises à s'intéresser à des terres arables au Québec.
The Congo ventures are not core businesses to be based in the Congo but instead, extensions of businesses located in South Africa
- Mail & Guardian
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12 Mar 2010
Minister says the contract did not give a deadline for the investor to complete his project, which means the government is powerless to withdraw the land from Saudi Prince Talal.
- Almasryalyoum
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18 Mar 2010
FIDP has launched a Cambodia and Laos fund, “an extended China play” that will focus largely on agriculture, seeking to benefit from China’s desire for food security.
- Financial Times
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18 April 2010
Nnimmo Bassey from Nigeria said that these principles legitimize a new form of colonialism with grave dangers for millions of local livelihoods and the environment.
- Radio Mundo Real
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28 April 2010
Pakistan’s ambassador to the Kingdom has called on Saudis to invest in his country’s agricultural sector.
Environmentalists are up in arms over the latest design for the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate in Papua, which they say will see more than 1.1 million hectares of forests converted into agricultural estates.
- Jakarta Globe
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09 May 2010
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.
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.
Demeter International got a 25-year lease for 10,000 ha of Bwabwata National Park, which it will start ploughing in October. Hundreds of families will lose access to the forest.
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.