AGRA Archive

• Pambazuka03 Jun 10

  Land investments are wholesale sell-outs for women farmers

  With the emerging land investments a new set of challenges emerges for the woman farmer.
• Pambazuka03 Jun 10

  Les investissements fonciers sont une vaste trahison des agricultrices

  En privant effectivement les paysans locaux de leurs terres et en perpétuant souvent « des méthodes agricoles nuisibles à l’environnement », cette évolution menace d’avoir des conséquences très négatives pour les petits exploitants, et en particulier les femmes
• AlertNet29 Mar 10

  African farmland leases threaten to drive conflict, but rules could help

  Even with new guidelines on land leases in Africa, the deals could lead to growing problems down the road, warned Emmy Simmons, a longtime USAID official
• AGRA (Alliance of Agrarian Reform Movement Indonesia)23 Feb 10

  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.
• GRAIN15 Feb 10

  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.
• Reuters12 Nov 09

  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
• Modern Ghana11 Nov 09

  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.
• Pambazuka05 Nov 09

  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.
• Pambazuka16 Jul 09

  Africa and the end of hunger

  Africa’s agrarian questions are not adequately addressed by simply asking, “What is the role of African smallholders?”
• IPS17 Jun 09

  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.
• Reuters15 Jun 09

  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.
• AGRA11 Jun 09

  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
• Reuters09 Jun 09

  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
• Business Day08 Jun 09

  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.
• Seattle Times01 Jun 09

  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.
• IPC26 Jan 09

  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.