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![El nuevo acaparamiento de tierras en América Latina]( "El nuevo acaparamiento de tierras en América Latina")
9 March 2010Inversionistas extranjeros han acaparado en pocos años millones de hectáreas de tierras de cultivo en América Latina para producir cultivos alimentarios o agrocombustibles y exportarlos. Gran parte del dinero proviene de fondos de pensión, bancos, grupos de inversión privada de Europa y Estados Unidos, o de individuos acaudalados como George Soros, y fluye a través de mecanismos de inversión en tierras de cultivo puestos a operar mediante compañías extranjeras y locales.
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3 March 2010Since Saudi Arabia abandoned its wheat cultivation programme two years ago, due to dwindling water resources in the desert kingdom, it became a major buyer of wheat from global markets.
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3 March 2010Gulf oil producers have abandoned long-standing nationalistic policies of achieving food self-sufficiency and switched to a more realistic approach of using their strong financial muscle to invest in farm projects in fertile countries.
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24 February 2010“Hay muchos problemas. El primero de ellos es que la agricultura no es una prioridad, tiene muy poco apoyo por parte de los Gobiernos. Es muy vulnerable frente a las condiciones climáticas y a la vista de los ingresos que se obtienen y tiene un grave problema, como es el del acaparamiento de tierras por parte de países como Libia, China o Arabia Saudí y sociedades privadas. Compran tierras para alimentar a sus países, pensando que África tiene tanta extensión y recursos que pueden utilizarlos para ese fin. En Mali vamos a hacer movilizaciones frente a ese acaparamiento de tierras.
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![Y ahora a por sus tierras]( "Y ahora a por sus tierras")
21 February 2010LA ONU ha presentado un estudio en el que informa sobre la masiva compra de tierras que países poderosos, e incluso multinacionales, están llevando a cabo en África.
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18 February 2010The chairman of Golden Gras says the solution to problems around buying farmland abroad for Saudi food production is 60:40 partnerships.
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14 February 2010Saudi-based National Agricultural Development Co (Nadec) said on Sunday it has completed procedures to obtain a 42,000-hectare farmland in Sudan.
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10 February 2010As many foreign and local investor are seeking to win a license to invest in the giant agriculture project in Papua, Indonesia, one unnamed South Korean investor has obtained a permit. Mitsubishi is also bidding. Binladin Group has been rejected.
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30 January 2010Yemen, grappling with poverty and a resurgent al Qaeda, is in talks with Saudi firms interested in acquiring farms or investing in fishery and livestock production with a first deal eyed by June.
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27 January 2010Heightened land values have caused several Egyptian banks, private companies and government bodies to purchase agricultural land in Africa, in addition to focusing greater attention on Egypt’s land resources.
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26 January 2010The urgency among Gulf states to pursue farmland acquisitions has diminished as food prices have gone down and controversy has gone up. Still, Saudi Arabia is pushing ahead with its plans.
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21 January 2010Both private and public sector investors from countries such as Qatar, Libya, Jordan, the UAE and Saudi Arabia in the Arab world as well as China and Korea elsewhere now hold long term rights to a total of two million feddans of arable land in Sudan, according to figures from the country’s agriculture ministry.
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20 January 2010The Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce’s Board of Directors said that Saudi businesspeople were keen to invest in Turkey, particularly in agriculture. “The Kingdom has a huge program involving billions of riyals for agricultural investment in countries with fertile soil and plentiful water.”
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19 January 2010Accaparement des terres - cas du Soudan - par AGTER
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![Call for papers: 4th London International Oromo Workshop on the scramble for land]( "Call for papers: 4th London International Oromo Workshop on the scramble for land")
8 January 2010A one-day workshop on the scramble for land, ‘investment’ and environmental degradation in Oromia: consequences for the future (City University London, 3 July 2010)
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![I grandi capitalisti alla conquista delle terre coltivabili dei paesi poveri]( "I grandi capitalisti alla conquista delle terre coltivabili dei paesi poveri")
7 January 2010Si impadroniscono delle risorse naturali sempre più scarse attraverso la guerra delle armi o il danaro. La scomparsa delle popolazioni in via di sviluppo a loro non importa.
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7 January 2010Saudi Arabia and neighbours take a new tack in the quest to secure supplies of food from Thailand, this time seeking rice processing factories.
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28 December 2009L’Union Tunisienne de l’Agriculture et de la Pêche a proposé au secteur privé saoudien la réalisation de projets d’investissements conjoints dans le secteur agricole dans plus de 5 millions d’hectares de terres fertiles et pavées pour l’agriculture mis à la disposition.
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![Rattling the resource chain]( "Rattling the resource chain")
22 December 2009Forecast reports on scarcity predict global actors will move in on dwindling resources. Governments are taking notice, and so should the public, Vivian Fritschi writes for ISN Security Watch.
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![Sudan looks to attract Middle Eastern investment in farmland]( "Sudan looks to attract Middle Eastern investment in farmland")
17 December 2009“We are now looking very seriously into Sudan,” said Zouhair Eloudghiri, chief executive officer of Savola Foods Co., a unit of Saudi Arabia’s second-largest publicly traded food producer, Savola Al-Azizia United Co.