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19 Apr 2013Gadaa.com
OSA’s appeal letter to the Secretary General of the UN on land-grabbing in Oromia
The following is a statement from the Oromo Studies Association (OSA).
18 Apr 2013Wall Street Journal
Australia-China trade talks stalled by investment row
Australia's Trade Minister Craig Emerson says plans to increase scrutiny on farmland investments would ruin any chance at all of a free-trade deal being struck with China.
18 Apr 2013Just-Food
Bakkavor opens Chinese factory and farm
The factory and farm are located in China's eastern Fujian and Jiangsu provinces. The farm will provide a "significant proportion" of the group's produce needs
18 Apr 2013The Australian
Tap superannuation for funds, says Visy director Ross Fitzgerald
According to BlackRock world agriculture fund portfolio manager and director Desmond Cheung there is a "wall of money" that is looking to back the world's growing appetite for a stable and growing food supply.
17 Apr 2013Africa Review
Hundreds of thousands face relocation in Ethiopia's land grab
When the Ethiopian government completes the Gibe III dam on the upper Omo, as it is expected to do shortly, large-scale irrigation will follow, allowing government sugar plantations to gobble up huge swathes of their ancestral land.
17 Apr 2013New Vision
Unfair Govt Policies Fanning Land Grabbing-Uganda Land Alliance
The Uganda Land Alliance (ULA) has observed that unfair government policies and ignorance of land rights and values have escalated the problem of land grabbing by investors in the country.
17 Apr 2013ECVC
Land concentration, land grabbing and people’s struggles in Europe
A new report by European Coordination Via Campesina and Hands off the Land network shows that land grabbing and access to land are a critical issues today in Europe.
17 Apr 2013ECVC
Un nouveau rapport affirme : La concentration et l’accaparement des terres prennent en Europe un caractère inquiétant
Ce rapport révèle le scandale tenu secret que seulement 3% des propriétaires terriens sont arrivés à contrôler la moitié des terres cultivables en Europe.
16 Apr 2013SOLIDARITÉ
Petition against landgrab in the state of Odisha, India
Please sign and share the petition
16 Apr 2013Swedwatch
Lack of transparency when Swedish Pension Fund AP2 invests in farmland in Brazil
A new Swedwatch report shows a lack of transparency and inadequate auditing of ethics and environmental impacts in AP2’s investment in farmland in Brazil. For business reasons, the investment is surrounded by a high level of secrecy, which makes scrutiny from the outside impossible.
15 Apr 2013Halal Focus
Dubai needs food from Africa
Pressed on which countries in Africa would be suitable food sources, Hisham Abdullah Al Shirawi, the chairman of Economic Zones World, says the test would be countries where water was in abundance and which were not spoilt by strife.
15 Apr 2013Think Africa Press
Who owns the land? Cameroon's large-scale land-grabs
As part of a trend that is accelerating across Africa, thousands of Cameroonians have been displaced from their homelands to make way for large-scale agribusiness projects.
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