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China Daily12 Aug 10Joint-venture farms that have China's financial and technical support are the future of China-Africa agriculture cooperation says China State Farms Agribusiness Corporation manager.
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J'accuse09 Jul 10Débat entre deux économistes africains, James Shikwati, directeur de l’Inter Region Network au Kenya, qui publie AfricanExecutive.com et Franklin Cudjoe, directeur du think tank IMANI au Ghana et rédacteur d’AfricanLiberty.org, autour de la question de savoir si les terres africaines doivent être ouvertes à des baux pour être cultivées par des investisseurs étrangers.
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Gulf Times03 May 10Ghana Investment Promotion Centre is seeking investments from Qatar to the tune of $700mn, including a major deal with Hassad Food
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GRAIN30 Apr 10MCC is playing a key role in commodifying Africa’s farmlands
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GRAIN30 Apr 10Le MCC joue un role clé dans la marchandisation des terres rurales africaines
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J.J. Rawlings blog09 Apr 10"We need to employ some protectionist policies to save our continent from a new form of colonization"
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Ghana News Agency19 Jan 10Vichai Sriprasent, President of Riceland International, said that Ghana had vast tracts of land and water sources that could be exploited for rice production.
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The Citizen29 Sep 09An Afro-Arab agriculture conference on farm investment, which was to take place in Zanzibar, has been cancelled due to the Tanzanian governmnt's 11th hour refusal to host it.
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Fahamu17 Sep 09Civil society, including African farmers unions, need to educate local people that such land deals are not in their interests, however couched in 'win-win' terminology they appear to be.
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Reuters09 Sep 09A group of private Saudi investors said they plan to start a company with $533.3 million capital that will invest in farm projects mainly abroad. First projects may be with Ghana, Turkey and Kazakhstan.
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Daily Nation30 Aug 09Land buying firms no longer disclose their identities to avoid tarnishing their image
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OECD09 Jul 09IFAD is supporting a pilot initiative to promote properly structured ("win-win") agricultural land deals in Ghana.
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Pambazuka09 Jul 09A focus on agricultural productivity should not become a cover for foreign private companies to grab land or impose expensive, input-intensive methods in the name of modernisation.
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Ghana News27 Jun 09Together with GMO, the land grab wave that is spreading across Africa and other countries in the "developing world" should be brought to the attention of all interested Ghanaians. It is important for Ghanaians to avoid falling for it.
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![La pugna por la tierra amenaza a los africanos]( "La pugna por la tierra amenaza a los africanos")
El País25 May 09Las adquisiciones de tierra en África, Asia y Latinoamérica, tal y como se hacen en la actualidad, suponen condenar a los más pobres a ser desalojados de sus fincas o a perder acceso a la tierra, al agua y a otros recursos, según el primer estudio sobre la nueva tendencia de grandes corporaciones y gobiernos de invertir en tierras en países pobres, encargado por las agencias de las Naciones Unidas de la Agricultura y Alimentación y del Desarrollo (FAO y UNDP).
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![Any lessons for Ghana in India’s jatropha failure?]( "Any lessons for Ghana in India’s jatropha failure?")
Ghana Business News23 May 09A Norwegian company, ScanFuel Ltd., says its Ghanaian unit has contracted about 400,000 hectares of land, with up to 60 percent reserved for biofuel production, “not less” than 30 percent for food production and the remainder for biodiversity buffer zones.
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![South African farmers in high demand across Africa]( "South African farmers in high demand across Africa")
Ghana Business News09 May 09A number of African countries are inviting South African farmers to come over to their countries and ply their trade, and Libya is included.
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![Commodity giants on our shores]( "Commodity giants on our shores")
Business Day (Nigeria)23 Feb 09“We have a land fund in South America, we have in Ukraine. Now we are developing one in Africa. We need to acquire land for farming,” says Guy de Montule, Louis Dreyfus’ chief executive officer for Middle East and Africa
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![Se venden países]( "Se venden países")
Rebelion13 Dec 08Las impresionantes ventas de tierras del sur a grandes empresas extranjeras muestran la cara más insultante del mercado y del modelo económico vigente, esas operaciones convierten en una ridícula caricatura los procesos de descolonización del siglo pasado. De qué les sirve la independencia política a los países africanos o asiáticos si sus tierras, su territorio, terminan compradas por una empresa europea.
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![China’s long march to Africa]( "China’s long march to Africa")
BBC News29 Nov 07“There’s no harm in allowing [Chinese] farmers to leave the country to become farm owners [in Africa],” the head of China’s Export-Import Bank, Li Ruogu, says.