AGRA Archive

• 023 February 2010

  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.
• 015 February 2010

  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.
• 012 November 2009

  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
• 011 November 2009

  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.
• 15 November 2009

  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.
• 116 July 2009

  Africa and the end of hunger

  Africa’s agrarian questions are not adequately addressed by simply asking, “What is the role of African smallholders?”
• 117 June 2009

  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.
• 015 June 2009

  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.
• 011 June 2009

  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
• 09 June 2009

  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
• 08 June 2009

  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.
• 01 June 2009

  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.
• 026 January 2009

  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.