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Chinese flooded with land offers
Companies linked to China's biggest agricultural conglomerate are being flooded with offers to buy or lease "hundreds of thousands" of hectares of land in Australia's Wheatbelt in the early stages of their bid to create an independent grain supply chain from the port of Albany.

In Sierra Leone, agric minister on strategic approach to large scale investment
“Many more [foreign farmland investors] have expressed interest to come and we are working on modalities to accommodate them,” Sierra Leone's Minister of Agriculture Dr. Sam Sesay said.

Corridors pour la croissance agricole en Afrique et la Nouvelle Alliance pour la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition: Qui en bénéficie, qui perd?
Ce rapport d'Econexus examine comment les gouvernements, les institutions financières internationales et les sociétés mondiales collaborent dans de nouveaux projets en Afrique pour réorganiser terres et des eaux et de créer une infrastructure industrielle sur des millions d’hectares

Sup with the devil
Mozambican smallholders thought they could do a deal with agribusiness. Hazel Healy reports on how transnational OLAM treated its so-called partners.

El gran acaparamiento de tierras del G8
Lo que es impactante es la forma descarada en que la Nueva Alianza pretende abrir las tierras cultivables africanas a una oleada sin precedentes de inversión a escala industrial.

Llamamiento de Yakarta - VI Conferencia de la Vía Campesina Egidio Brunetto
"Hoy más que nunca, otro mundo es urgente y necesario.uestro mundo a través de la sobrexplotación y desposesión de los pueblos y la apropiación de los bienes naturales está produciendo la actual crisis climática y profundas desigualdades que amenazan a la humanidad en su conjunto y a la vida misma".

Land grab guidelines provide little aid to farmers
The UN passed a series of voluntary guidelines to prevent land grabbing and protect small-scale farmer's rights a year ago. But so far the rules haven't had much impact on foreign investors buying up land.

Link search for justice to AU policy standards
Today, Fahamu Networks for Social Justice is hosting a national conference of social movements and other actors in Kenya to review the implementation process of the National Land Policy.

Les populations de Nginth avertissent « Pour faire quitter le projet dans le Ndiaèl, nous sommes prêts à mourir »
Le bras de fer entre les populations de la communauté Rurale de Ngnith et les responsables du projet Sen Huile/ Sen Ethanol est toujours d’actualité. Les populations invitent l’Etat à faire quitter ce projet dans la zone, avant qu' n y ait mort d’homme.

African Union voices guarded support of foreign investment in agriculture
The AU supports the acquisition of African farmland by foreign investors subject to the appropriate checks and controls being in place

19 Jun 2013Grupo Semillas

Colombia: ¡el embajador Carlos Urrutia debe renunciar!

El bufete del embajador en Estados Unidos, ayudó a acaparar irregularmente tierras en Colombia a la compañía norteamericana CARGILL. Ya se alinderó contra la Nación en posibles reclamaciones ante tribunales internacionales.

18 Jun 2013LVC

Ibrahima Coulibaly: «Nous sommes pauvres car nos paysans sont pauvres»

Président de la CNOP du Mali, vice-président du ROPPA, membre de la Via Campesina, Ibrahima Coulibaly se bat pour les intérêts de la paysannerie qui est, selon lui, le pilier du développement en Afrique.

18 Jun 2013AP

Mo. moves to lift ban on foreign farm ownership

Weeks before a Chinese conglomerate agreed to buy Smithfield Foods Inc. in the largest such takeover of a US business, Missouri lawmakers quietly approved legislation removing a ban on foreign ownership of agricultural land.

21 May 2013	Lebanese farmland firm to invest up to $800m in Sudan	Reuters
21 May 2013	European banks and penion funds fuel land-grabs in Uganda	FOEE
21 May 2013	Animated guide to land grabs	Oxfam
20 May 2013	Saudi investor to delay Sudan farm project over dollar curbs	Reuters
20 May 2013	Stallion Group to invest in rice production in Edo	This Day
20 May 2013	Arabs invest little in agriculture	ANBA
20 May 2013	The changing face of land disputes in Liberia	IRIN
20 May 2013	Foreign ownership ban retained	DTN/TPF
19 May 2013	When the levee breaks	The Hindu
19 May 2013	El desembarco	La Jornada
19 May 2013	What can we learn from history about the impact of large-scale land developments in Africa?	Future Agricultures
18 May 2013	Réserve naturelle de biocombustibles	Agoravox
17 May 2013	Shifting the debate about ‘responsible soy’ production in Paraguay	LPDI
16 May 2013	Riserva naturale di biocombustibili	Agoravox
16 May 2013	Rapport Cyclope : l'appétit de la Chine est annonciateur de tensions	Jeune Afrique
16 May 2013	Perú: Observatorio alerta sobre el problema de la extranjerización de la tierra rural	Servindi
16 May 2013	Ismail vows to punish Sudan’s investment ministry staff accepting bribes	Sudan Tribune
15 May 2013	G8 should implement the CFS Tenure Guidelines rather than launch a new initiative aimed at increased transparency in land transactions
15 May 2013	UK’s Lonrho gets buyout offer	Reuters
15 May 2013	Pronunciamiento internacional contra la iniciativa del G8 sobre tierras	FIAN

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