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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.

04 Jun 2013	Perú: 10% de las tierras de la costa en manos extranjeras	CEPES Rural
04 Jun 2013	Japón también quiere la riqueza africana	IPS
04 Jun 2013	Los Grobo venden empresa en Brasil para invertir en Argentina	Terra
03 Jun 2013	Smithfield Foods – Shuanghui International: The biggest Chinese acquisition that isn't	Caijing
03 Jun 2013	Concern mounts over agriculture development plan in Mozambique	Kyodo
03 Jun 2013	At TICAD, clumsy diplomacy mars controversial Japanese aid project in Mozambique	Japan Today
03 Jun 2013	¿A quién pertenece el agua en África?	ABC
03 Jun 2013	When land gets grabbed, do women get sidelined?	CGIAR
03 Jun 2013	Migration is expulsion by another name in world of foreign land deals	Guardian
03 Jun 2013	End intimidation around Sierra Leone oil palm project	GRAIN
03 Jun 2013	Mettons fin à l'intimidation des opposants au projet d'huile de palme en Sierra Leone	GRAIN
03 Jun 2013	Grobocopatel invierte en agroquímicos	La Nación
02 Jun 2013	Investeerders Verenigde Arabische Emiraten in Suriname	Investeerders Verenigde Arabische Emiraten in Suriname
01 Jun 2013	Des activistes crient victoire comme Herakles suspend ses opérations	IPS
01 Jun 2013	Mitsubishi to control grain company Los Grobo Ceagro do Brasil-Nikkei	Reuters
01 Jun 2013	Karuturi debacle prompts Ethiopia to review land policy	The Hindu
01 Jun 2013	The Philippines offers Indonesia to open palm oil plantation	Republika
31 May 2013	Chinese farms go global	The Diplomat
31 May 2013	Algeria to open up farmland to foreign investors	Reuters
31 May 2013	Mozambique seeks additional funding for ProSavana project	Macauhub

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