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04 Apr 2011The Broker
The myths of global land grabbing untangled
The issue of land grabbing has been on the agenda for some years now, but it seems that the academic focus is changing.
01 Apr 2011Corn & Soybean Digest
Foreigners gobble up land
Some claim it’s for food security, some say it’s a land grab
28 Mar 2011Kontext TV
Land grabbing: The new scramble for Africa
Since the food and financial crisis in 2008, a race for arable land has started worldwide. States, corporations, banks and funds of rich countries buy up large chunks of land to produce agrofuels and grow crops for food - or just to speculate.
27 Mar 2011Anyuak Media
African land, up for grabs
A land grab is taking place all across Africa, a transfer of control unprecedented in the post-colonial era.
25 Mar 2011IDS
Debating the global land grab
A new report is released this week to coincide with the forthcoming international conference on the global land grab to be held at IDS, University of Sussex.
23 Mar 2011Upside Down World
Biofuels, mass evictions and violence build on the legacy of the 1978 Panzos Massacre in Guatemala
Internationally-funded Guatemalan palm oil and sugar cane interests evict Mayan Qeqchi families from their historic lands, destroying homes and crops, killing one, injuring more, while thousands are without food or shelter.
22 Mar 2011Knowledge@Wharton
Middle East's investments in African farmlands are rooted in food security fears
The Arab unrest has only doubled the efforts of Gulf countries to secure food production by buying farmland around the world, as they try to buffer themselves from the economic issues that have destabilized the region.
09 Mar 2011Reuters
Ukraine, Russia grain export curbs deter investors
"Politically the (Ukraine) government wants to reassure the population that these traders are not going to export grain while the population starves," says the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
02 Mar 2011Fahamu
In field and for food, the return of structural adjustment
Principles for responsible agriculture investment are stock templates, designed to deflect the fallout from a growing number of media reports of land deals between investors and governments.
22 Feb 2011CIP & AWEPA
Land moves up the political agenda
In Mozambique, there has been an unofficial halt to new large land grants.
19 Feb 2011Juventud Rebelde
El costo de un mal negocio
La explosiva convergencia de la crisis alimentaria y financiera de 2008 desencadenó una nueva carrera por la apropiación de tierras africanas, que se mantiene hasta hoy. Las corporaciones de alimentos y los inversionistas privados buscan arrancar su tajada
11 Feb 2011FSM2011
[FSM2011] Appel de Dakar contre les accaparements de terres
Nous en appelons aux parlements et aux gouvernements nationaux pour que cessent immédiatement tous les accaparements fonciers massifs en cours ou à venir et que soient restituées les terres spoliées.
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