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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 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.

18 Jun 2013WMC

Tunisie: L'APIA s'oppose à l'attribution des terres agricoles à des étrangers

L'Agence de Promotion des Investissements Agricoles et la commission chargée de l'élaboration du nouveau code d'investissement de la Tunisie ont convenu d'y interdire l'octroi de terres agricoles aux étrangers.

31 May 2013	Malaysia’s Wah Seong to invest $744 million in Congo palm oil	Bloomberg
31 May 2013	LDPI working papers	LDPI
31 May 2013	Mozambique farmers seek halt to aid project	Kyodo
30 May 2013	Our man in Sudan	AJE
30 May 2013	Analyse 39: Large-scale land acquisitions in Liberia	BfdW
30 May 2013	The bitter taste of Liberia’s palm oil plantations	IPS
30 May 2013	Les actualités foncières ouest-africaines. Bulletin n°90	Commission de l'UEMOA / Hub Rural
30 May 2013	China's appetite for pork spurs $4.7 billion Smithfield deal	Reuters
29 May 2013	Herakles Farms au Cameroun : Bientôt la fin ?	Al Qarra
28 May 2013	Carta aberta para deter e reflectir de forma urgente o Programa ProSavana	UNAC
28 May 2013	Ethiopia refuses to cooperate with World Bank funding probe	Bloomberg
28 May 2013	Gov’t ‘gives away’ US$8.2m to Prairie Volta	The Scandal
28 May 2013	ABP, PFZW to stick with controversial palm oil firm	IPE
28 May 2013	Changes planned for the law on foreign ownership of agricultural land	Georgia Today
28 May 2013	Open Letter from Mozambican civil society organisations and movements to the presidents of Mozambique and Brazil and the Prime Minister of Japan	UNAC et al
28 May 2013	Agriculture is on the lips of everyone these days in Romania	Balkans.com
27 May 2013	L’UA souhaite la venue d'investissements étrangers dans les terres agricoles fertiles du Continent	Infosplusgabon
27 May 2013	Group opposes entry of Taiwan’s agribusiness giant at Apeco	Business Mirror
25 May 2013	UK foreign aid, the final insult	Daily Mail
25 May 2013	'Indonesia is seeing a new corporate colonialism'	Guardian

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