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Local food production not viable
- Gulf News
- 09 May 2010
GCC countries are doing the right thing by increasingly exploring investments in farmlands abroad, says Jasim Ali, Bahraini MP.
(Mis)investment in Agriculture: Foreword by Howard G. Buffett
- Oakland Institute
- 26 April 2010
"Here’s what I’m sure of: these deals will make the rich richer and the poor poorer, creating clear winners who benefit while the losers are denied their livelihoods."
Stakes are high in African investment race
- Joong Ang Daily
- 16 April 2010
Korean investors are nervous about trusting African governments’ guarantees, and about complex and frequently arbitrary regulations.
Conflicts simmer over land concessions
- IPS
- 14 April 2010
The Cambodian government’s moves to allocate vast tracts of land to foreign and local companies are often done without consulting local villagers.
Indonesia: Agriculture expansion plan under fire
- IRIN
- 26 Mar 2010
The Indonesian government's plan to develop a food estate in Papua has come in for heavy criticism for potentially marginalizing small farmers and threatening the environment.
EALA adopts common strategy for food security in the region
- East African Community
- 24 February 2010
"EAC Partner States should resist the leasing or selling of large chunks of land to foreign entities for production of food or bio-fuel feedstock solely for export, which will be disadvantageous to food security in the region" says the East African Legislative Assembly
Egypt leases land in Uganda to ensure food security
- MediaGlobal
- 04 February 2010
While the proposed deal brings up ethical questions of exploitation, another concern is how it will impact earth changes and food security in the future.
Abu Dhabi and Alberta sign strategic economic co-operation
- Emirates News Agency
- 20 January 2010
This three years memorandum is not only setting a framework of cooperation but it includes some specific steps such as mutual beneficial arrangements in the agricultural sector (e.g. investment and provision of grain, development of a grain terminal)
Indian companies buy land abroad for agricultural products
- Economic Times
- 02 January 2010
The list of Indian companies that have purchased land in Africa is quite long and includes companies in businesses ranging from agriculture and horticulture to engineering and metals.
Land, crop conversions opposed by rice farmers
- Manila Bulletin
- 24 December 2009
Militant farmers belonging to the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) are completely disgusted by the failure of government to stop land and crop conversions.
Is there such a thing as agro-imperialism?
- New York Times
- 19 November 2009
There’s a whole school of economic thought that says that Collier is wrong, that big is not necessarily better in agriculture — and that the land deals therefore might be unwise not because they’re wrong but because they’re unprofitable.
Argentine rains to boost Cresud, soybean harvests
- Bloomberg
- 09 November 2009
Buenos Aires-based Cresud plans to acquire more land to add to the 484,000 hectares (1.2 million acres) it owns and the 90,410 hectares it leases in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia
Egypt's Citadel eyes investments in Kenya, Uganda
- Reuters
- 25 October 2009
Stephen Murphy, managing director of institutional fundraising, said the firm had eyed agriculture and infrastructure investments in Uganda.
Corporate farming will exacerbate food crisis: NGO
- The News
- 18 October 2009
Roots for Equity Director Dr Azra Sayeed demanded that the Pakistani government stop giving agricultural land on lease to foreign food companies, and rather that these lands should be given to local growers to overcome food crisis in the country.
Buying farm land and mines as local sectors languish
- Organiser
- 13 October 2009
The UPA Government has deprived job opportunities to millions of illiterate and semi-literate Indians by forcing Indian companies to invest abroad in overseas plantations and coal mining sectors.
Foreigners own more US farmland
- Delta Farm Press
- 09 October 2009
Foreigners have an interest (partial or total ownership) in 1.6 percent of all privately held US agricultural land, a 1.4 million acre increase from 2007.
Grabbing land
- The News
- 04 October 2009
A significant percentage of the manual labour force on arable land in Pakistan is female. If we lease this land to Saudi Arabia -- a country where women are not allowed to drive cars, vote, work in public places with a namehram -- to do with as it pleases -- will there still, across the proposed acreage reportedly twice the size of Hong Kong, be room for them?
Going gaga over grain
- Dawn
- 17 September 2009
Last May, while Pakistan’s military was waging its offensive in Swat, Islamabad officials were simultaneously launching another offensive in the Gulf: a charm offensive to secure investment in Pakistani farmland.
India offers to spur green revolution in drought-hit Tanzania
- IANS
- 15 September 2009
Tanzania has offered to lease land to Indian private companies for a period of 99 years, as it pitched for increased investment in the agricultural sector.
International agricultural land deals award Ethiopian virgin lands to foreign companies
- Abugida Info
- 13 August 2009
The terms of farmland deals are hardly made public. Although a theoretical possibility exists in a few cases for some transfer of technology for agricultural development, risk also exists to peasant farmers who cannot compete with well-resourced commercial farms. Take, for instance, the case of barley and oilseeds producers in Ethiopia.
Food crisis: Fields of gold
- Canadian Business
- 12 August 2009
According to Steve Yuzpe, the CFO of Sprott Resource, ongoing population growth, dwindling arable land, water issues, even the falling yield productivity delivered by genetically modified seeds will be the big drivers for continued record demand—pushing food prices ever higher.
The food crisis continues - in the form of a global scramble for lucrative farmlands
- CounterCurrents
- 17 June 2009
It's a tsunami of land deals and, as all of the experts who have studied the phenomenon have agreed, no nation is truly prepared for its implications.
Betting the farm
- Fortune/CNN
- 10 June 2009
As world population expands, the demand for arable land should soar. At least that's what George Soros, Lord Rothschild, and other investors believe.
NGOs cry foul over rich-country ‘land grab’ in developing world
- Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest
- 20 May 2009
A recent jump in rich country land purchases in the developing world has caught the attention of analysts in trade and human rights circles.
Food security in the Caribbean
- Trinidad Express
- 02 May 2009
The Caribbean is still struggling to develop a new agricultural model. While small scale agriculture and land ownership continues to have a deep rooted and emotional appeal, large scale farming with its echo of servitude–in the Anglophone Caribbean at least–remains far from attractive.
Life is slowly draining from the farms
- Bangkok Post
- 22 April 2009
In 2006, Thailand had about 25 million farmers, who accounted for 40% of the population. The number is likely fall to 37% of the population by 2013. The government must act to reverse the trend, otherwise investors could rent or buy land from farmers to invest in large-scale farming, agricultural processing plants and hiring local people.
In the interest of Nigeria's agriculture
- Guardian
- 24 Mar 2009
With Gulf countries and businesses demonstrating a newfound disposition for direct farm investment to cater for their local agro commodity needs, Sub-Saharan Africa has been identified as a source of growing and/or producing their imported food. Nigeria’s position in the matrix cannot be overemphasized.
Farms in Saudi Arabia?
- Le Monde Diplomatique
- 16 Mar 2009
“The food crisis in the spring of 2008 was a warning sign,” according to al-Obeid. Saudi Arabia is a net importer of agricultural products, especially rice, corn and soya. This fact is pushing the state to invest overseas. We’ve sent government and private-sector delegations to Turkey, Ukraine, Egypt, Sudan, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Ethiopia and Uzbekistan. These delegations have been very warmly received.”
Arab nations urged to set up strategic cereal stock
- Emirates Business 24/7
- 04 February 2009
AOAD Director-General Salim Allowzi said the private sector in the Arab World needs to step up investment in farming projects to cut the massive import bill, ensure enough farm products for the region and bolster food security.
Pakistan’s food insecurity
- Daily times
- 20 January 2009
For the practical realisation of the goal of food sovereignty that has been eluding our nation since the time of independence, the importance of genuine agrarian reform and peasants’ rights cannot be underestimated.