Food crisis and the global land grab
farmlandgrab.org weekly | 14-Oct-2010
Emirates Business 24/7 | 13-Oct-2010
The UAE controls more than 2,800 square kilometers [280,000 ha] in farms in Sudan -- more than triple the area of Bahrain -- as a result of its decision to invest in agricultural projects in fertile Arab nations to slash its soaring food import bill
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AFP | 13-Oct-2010
Farmers from the developing world called on governments this week to curb a global land rush in which millions of hectares of their terrain are being taken over by foreign private investors.
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Khaleej Times | 13-Oct-2010
UAE investors are pumping huge funds into the agricultural sector given the availability of vast arable lands and water and production inputs along with a large market which can serve as a gateway to European and African markets.
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La France Agricole | 12-Oct-2010
La réunion de la FAO doit « proposer des mesures concrètes » pour freiner l'accaparement des terres, a demandé le mouvement paysan Via Campesina.
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APA | 12-Oct-2010
“We are calling for a moratorium on land grabbing until much tougher rules are in place to safeguard the human rights of poor communities on the ground,” ActionAid says.
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Bua News | 12-Oct-2010
"I look forward to watching the [CFS] evolve and address issues such as land acquisition," says UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
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OpEd News | 12-Oct-2010
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By Joice Biazoto
Suppose that, one day, a foreign investor decided to buy a vast tract of fertile land in the United States, with support of the American government. Suppose all that is grown or produced in that land, and all profits made, would be shipped directly overseas. Worse, imagine that those [...]
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Peuples Solidaires | 11-Oct-2010
Cette exploitation de plus de 20 000 hectares est emblématique du phénomène mondial d’accaparement de terres dans lequel l’agrobusiness menace la sécurité alimentaire des populations locales
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Kyiv Post | 11-Oct-2010
Foreign investors are already knee deep in Ukrainian agriculture, with full or partial stakes in around half of the country’s top 60 agricultural holdings.
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Tehran Times | 11-Oct-2010
A plot of land has been chosen for Iran to establish an agro-industry complex to produce wheat and sugar in Sudan
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Reuters | 11-Oct-2010
African governments should avoid rushing into big land lease deals with foreign investors or risk deepening poverty and ramping up social tensions, an official at the UN's Food and Agriculture Office said
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Addis Fortune | 11-Oct-2010
Sannati Agro Farm Enterprise Plc received a 10,000ht plot of land in Dimi District, Gambella Region, for the cultivation of rice, pulses, and cereals, from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on October 1, 2010.
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IRIN | 11-Oct-2010
IRIN | 11 October 2010
CAIRO, 11 October 2010 (IRIN) – The Egyptian government is hoping to cultivate wheat and other cereals on fertile land in African countries to feed its growing population of over 80 million.
In early September it signed a deal with the Sudanese government to give Egyptian companies access to Sudanese farmland.
“Growing essential [...]
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Business Day | 11-Oct-2010
Cash-rich Chinese and Japanese food companies are thought to be the only potential buyers with enough money to risk sinking into New Zealand's biggest pipfruit business, Mr Apple, to be put on the market by South Canterbury Finance receivers.
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PANA | 10-Oct-2010
Les pays arabes se sont orientés vers les pays africains à la recherche de nouveaux marchés et des terres agricoles pour faire face au risque qui menace leur sécurité alimentaire.
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African Intelligence | 09-Oct-2010
Addis Abaaba has decided to withdraw from the regional governments the right of attributing leases of over 1,000 ha. However, the 2010 federal budget lists no income whatsoever, and no information on this subject appears in the quarterly reports of the National Bank of Ethiopia.
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Carmen de Patagones | 09-Oct-2010
Si el Señor Gobernador reconociera la superficie de tierra a arrasar, la cantidad de agua a envenenar, el monto de nuestra riqueza a saquear...
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LRAN | 09-Oct-2010
This brie?ng is meant to show the fundamental ?aws and short-comings of both the RAI initiative and of the RAI principles themselves, principle by principle.
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Exame | 08-Oct-2010
O Incra estuda convocar um amplo recadastramento dos estrangeiros por meio de um ato normativo exclusivo. Além disso, pode lançar nos próximos meses o Sistema Nacional de Aquisição de Terras por Estrangeiros – Sisnate.
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La France Agricole | 08-Oct-2010
La Coordination Sud se mobilise « contre les accaparements de terre » dans les pays en développement par certains Etats ou entreprises, a-t-elle souligné dans un communiqué.
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Jeune Afrique | 08-Oct-2010
La ruée des pays et des groupes étrangers vers l’or vert africain inquiète experts et ONG. Reste que le phénomène est difficilement quantifiable, nombre d’annonces d’accords n’étant pas suivies d’effet. Dossier Jeune Afrique.
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NZ Herald | 08-Oct-2010
The approved sale of a large Otago dairy farm to Harvard University in the United States is not in New Zealand's long-term interests and shows a lack of clear and strong rules on foreign ownership of NZ land, says Labour.
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The Australian | 08-Oct-2010
Foreign ownership of watersheds or agricultural land plays into the perennial food security fears that are common in a nation forced to import about 60 per cent of its food.
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Reuters | 08-Oct-2010
Agroton, one of Ukraine's largest agricultural companies, plans to use the IPO money to boost its land bank. Ukraine, a major global exporter of grain, plans to introduce private land ownership this year.
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AFP | 07-Oct-2010
Según el senador Jorge Saravia, se calcula que actualmente hay un 25% de tierras en manos de extranjeros, lo que representa unos tres millones de hectáreas.
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Piuke | 07-Oct-2010
La intención de firmar un acuerdo con China involucra la inversión extranjera en infraestructura de riego de 200.000 hectáreas, decisión que implica la apropiación de territorio por parte de una nación, China.
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RTFN-Watch | 07-Oct-2010
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.
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NZ Herald | 07-Oct-2010
An American university is buying a New Zealand dairy farm for more than $28 million as officials and would-be overseas investors get ready for new rules.
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Radio New Zealand | 07-Oct-2010
New Zealand's Federated Farmers is welcoming the purchase of a big slice of farmland in central Otago by Harvard University for $34.1 million.
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NZ H erald | 07-Oct-2010
Richard Fyers, a commercial lawyer with the NZ China Trade Association, writes about the fuss made over land sales to foreigners.
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ANBA | 06-Oct-2010
A afirmação é do secretário-executivo do Ministério da Agricultura brasileiro, Gerardo Fontelles.
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La Gazette | 06-Oct-2010
Les expériences de Daewoo et de Varun présentent les ingrédients d’une implantation agro-industrielle condamnée à l’échec. Ces éléments d’une stratégie « perdant-perdant » peuvent se résumer en trois points.
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PR Web | 06-Oct-2010
The key highlights of the forum will focus on the rising prospects in the global agricultural business, land utilisation and acquisition policies.
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El Espectador | 06-Oct-2010
El presidente José Mujica encargó a tres senadores del Frente Amplio la elaboración de un proyecto de ley tendiente a frenar la extranjerización de la tierra en Uruguay.
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New Security Beat | 06-Oct-2010
The two months we spent in the Amhara and Oromia regions of Ethiopia, surveying smallholders and profiling large-scale commercial farms, left us with a different impression.
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Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources | 06-Oct-2010
We support the position adopted by the Ha Nim indigenous people and their sympathisers who reject the MIFEE project on their land because it poses a threat to the right to life of the local communities and urge the Indonesian state – SBY – to repeal the MoU about MIFEE.
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Spire | 06-Oct-2010
Please support our demands that the Norwegian Government stops import of commodities from grabbed land, takes initiativ to international cooperation to control investment deals in the agricultural sector, and make sure that Norwegian investments never happens at the expence of peoples food security or participation.
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BBC | 05-Oct-2010
Investment managers in the US report rising interest from pension schemes and retail investors in funds that buy and run farmland in developed countries.
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Quotidien Mutations | 05-Oct-2010
50 ans après les indépendances, l’Occident et les pays émergents font main basse sur le sol et le sous-sol du continent: l’on estime à des millions d’hectares, les superficies déjà acquises dans plusieurs pays. L’Union africaine en ordre de bataille pour faire barrage.
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Radio Vega | 05-Oct-2010
Byn Kikundi är inte ensam. Det kommer många investerare både från utlandet och hemlandet för att bruka mark som inte är deras.
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BBC | 04-Oct-2010
The rights and wrongs of global agricultural investment examined on Business Daily of the BBC
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OECD | 10-Aug-2010
Given the expected need for additional arable land to be brought into production on a global basis, the amount of capital that could enter the [farmland acquisition] sector could substantially exceed USD 150 billion.
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L'Echo | 07-Jun-2010
Depuis la crise alimentaire en 2008, certains fonds d’investissement se sont rués sur les terres arables africaines, pour profiter de leur sous-exploitation et de la faim insatiable de la planète. Pour les associations humanitaires, il y a danger.
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