AGRA Archive

  • Forum on land reform highlights ongoing issue of land grabbing in Indonesia

    Forum on land reform highlights ongoing issue of land grabbing in Indonesia

    Educating the peasant movement is a key to genuine land reform implementation and the position of peasant movements as strong political bases against land grabbing in the future.
  • Africa’s land and family farms – up for grabs?

    Africa’s land and family farms – up for grabs?

    Over the years many Big Ideas have been imposed on Africa from outside. The latest is that the region should sell or lease millions of hectares of land to foreign investors.
  • SPECIAL REPORT-Is Africa selling out its farmers?

    SPECIAL REPORT-Is Africa selling out its farmers?

    Many small Ethopian farmers do not share their leaders' enthusiasm for leasing off farmland to foreign investors
  • Is Africa’s land up for grabs? [EN, FR, DE]

    Is Africa’s land up for grabs? [EN, FR, DE]

    “Governments are sitting on a box of dynamite,” Namanga Ngoni, president of AGRA, initiated by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, told the media.
  • Profits before people: The great African liquidation sale

    Profits before people: The great African liquidation sale

    The fervour with which foreign commercial interests are forcing their agricultural 'solutions' on the African continent represents nothing more than an established endeavour to protect profits and access to resources.
  • Africa and the end of hunger

    Africa and the end of hunger

    Africa’s agrarian questions are not adequately addressed by simply asking, “What is the role of African smallholders?”
  • Questioning old traditions

    Questioning old traditions

    Uganda's minister of agriculture literally pleaded with the agribusiness delegates at a forum in Capetown to take advantage of Uganda’s extremely advantageous deals for private investors in the agricultural sector.
  • Code of conduct urged for Africa farm land grabs

    Code of conduct urged for Africa farm land grabs

    African countries may need to put in place a code of conduct to govern farmland purchases on the continent by foreigners, an agribusiness conference heard on Monday.
  • Africa: Breadbasket development key to achieving African food security

    Africa: Breadbasket development key to achieving African food security

    "The rush for land by outside players is more proof of the enormous potential of African agriculture. Africa itself must harness this potential," Kofi Annan says
  • Africa becomes wary of farm deals: land activist

    Africa becomes wary of farm deals: land activist

    African nations are becoming more cautious in selling farmland to foreign investors, with governments paying closer attention to deals that could lead to social unrest, AGRA says
  • The coming of foreign farm investors…what lessons for Nigeria ?

    The coming of foreign farm investors…what lessons for Nigeria ?

    It is not clear whether a strategy is in place to ensure that part of the food produced by the rich food importers farms will be sold locally.
  • Is offshore farming a good thing for Africa?

    Is offshore farming a good thing for Africa?

    Abdullah Alireza, the Saudi minister of Commerce and Industry, talked about farming abroad in a recent visit to Seattle, where he addressed a private gathering of local business people.
  • Accelerating into disaster – when banks manage the food crisis

    Accelerating into disaster – when banks manage the food crisis

    As the vicious food price crisis deepens, transnational companies are moving into southern countries on a huge scale and starting to capture millions of hectares of land in order to bring agricultural production further under their control for industrial agrofuel and food production for the international market. Millions of peasants will be pushed out of food production, adding to the hungry in the rural areas and the slums of the big cities. The few that remain will work under full control of the transnational companies as workers or contract farmers.