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22 Mar 2013TANY
"Madagascar, breadbasket of the Indian Ocean": A risky plan to be handled with care
Under the initiative of the Indian Ocean Commission, Madagascar is the focus of a large project to produce and export agricultural products to ensure the food security of this regional space, raising the spectre of land grabbing.
22 Mar 2013CNN
Are African land grabs really water grabs?
As land is grabbed and earmarked for development, this often has implications for the water nearby, for local people's land and water rights and environmental sustainability.
22 Mar 2013FarmLandS
Swedish land grab in Tanzania causes protests
Mats Widgren provides an update on a Swedish company's land grab for sugar cane production in Tanzania.
22 Mar 2013IISD
Land grab v food security: Can global regulation cope?
Foreign investors in the agricultural sector are under regulated in the current framework of international investment law, voluntary guidelines and fragmented national investment legislation, and over protected in regional and bilateral investment treaties and domestic regulation.
22 Mar 2013ILC
Land grabbing – what’s the debate?
With the largely self-evident agreement that land grabbing is wrong and all efforts should be made to prevent it, debate and effort can focus more on (i) how to prevent land grabbing, and (ii) how to enable forms of land-based investments that actually bring real benefit.
22 Mar 2013WSJ
Cargill expanding palm-oil plantations in Indonesia
“We are aggressively looking for new areas in Sulawesi, Central Kalimantan and South Sumatra that are environmentally safe to expand our oil-palm footprint,” says president-director of the company’s oil-palm plantations in Sumatra.
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