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Le Monde24 Aug 10Le revers de la médaille, c'est la ruée sur les terres arables de certains Etats et groupes privés qui mettent à mal le développement d'une agriculture paysanne, pourtant seule à même de répondre aux problèmes de la faim et de pauvreté des pays du Sud.
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Islands Business12 Jul 10"We have Indonesians and Malaysians coming in and saying we want 100,000 hectares to make PNG a rice producing country," says PNG’s Deputy Prime Minister Sir Puka Temu
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EU Reporter14 May 10Expanding the acreage of organically farmed land to 20% would increase the EU's virtual land importation by 30%. And policies to achieve the EU’s 10% biofuel objective would also increase the rate of EU land-grabs.
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Industry Today12 May 10A new report argues that the EU has become the world's largest net importer of agricultural produce, and therefore the largest user of agricultural land that is not its own.
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Reuters27 Apr 10European Union governments want to develop a global code of conduct for foreign investments in agricultural land in developing countries, according to a draft paper on food security seen by Reuters.
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EurActiv02 Apr 10The Commission plans to launch a joint initiative with the African Union that will include a roadmap for the implementation of "sustainable large-scale investments in farmland".
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RealDeal16 Feb 10Parliament yesterday approved a resolution calling on the government to get the EU to extend a ban on the purchase of farmland by foreigners for another three years. The current moratorium will end in 2011.
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DPA04 Feb 10Fears of a land grab by wealthier western EU countries prompted Hungary, and most of the members that joined in 2004, to negotiate temporary derogations in the case of agricultural land. The derogation is due to expire in May 2011.
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European Parliament27 Nov 0922. Stresses that farmland acquisition by foreign investors, particularly in Africa, must not have an adverse impact on local food security or lead to unsustainable land use; points out that it may also have positive effects by bringing land into productive use; urges the FAO and the Member States to work towards common rules and legislative proposals which recognise the right of local people in every country to control farmland and other natural resources vital to their food security;
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EDD23 Oct 09An audio recording of the panel on global land acquisition, held on 22 October 2009 at the European Development Days 2009 in Stockholm, is available online.
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EU Development Days13 Oct 09À mesure que l'acquisition de terres tient de moins en moins compte des frontières, de nouveaux mécanismes et codes de conduite sont nécessaires pour régir les relations entres les investisseurs, les gouvernements et les communautés locales.
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EDD13 Oct 09As land acquisition becomes increasingly borderless, new mechanisms and codes of conduct are required to govern the relationship between investors, governments and local communities.
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Yonhap24 Sep 09South Korea will develop 100,000 ha of farmland in Tanzania to make inroads into African and European markets, a state-run rural development corporation said Thursday.
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Abugida Info13 Aug 09The terms of farmland deals are hardly made public. Although a theoretical possibility exists in a few cases for some transfer of technology for agricultural development, risk also exists to peasant farmers who cannot compete with well-resourced commercial farms. Take, for instance, the case of barley and oilseeds producers in Ethiopia.
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Pamalakaya and KMP24 Jun 09The left-leaning fisherfolk alliance Pamalakaya and staunch ally KMP on Thursday exposed what they called a secret agricultural pact between the Philippines and Bahrain.
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KMP18 Jun 09"We have our experiences about foreign ownership of land in Mindanao, where Dole and Del Monte controlled hundreds of thousands of hectares of lands, through leaseback agreements, cultivating their raw materials, thus, peasants have been transformed to mere lowly agricultural workers whose rights of their lands have been stripped off," said Antonio Flores, KMP Spokesperson.
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Reuters15 Jun 09African 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.
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Reuters03 Jun 09The European Union is concerned by the trend of foreign investors and countries acquiring large tracts of farmland in developing countries to guarantee their own food security, a senior EU official said on Wednesday.
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![’Food colonialism’ increasing hunger in Africa]( "’Food colonialism’ increasing hunger in Africa")
Modern Ghana06 May 09The European Union is coercing some West African governments into allowing European-based fishing companies to deplete West Africa’s fishing stocks in a new "food colonialism" that is now taking place between rich and poor countries around the world, according to British author George Monbiot.
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![Land access and rural development: New challenges, new opportunities]( "Land access and rural development: New challenges, new opportunities")
Brussels Development Briefing25 Feb 09The 9th Brussels Development Briefing took place on 25th February 2009 in Brussels on “Land access and rural development: New challenges, new opportunities” and discussed the links between property rights, investment and the generation of economic opportunities in rural areas.