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Dar won't host major conference
- The Citizen
- 29 September 2009
An 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.
Land grabs - Another scramble for Africa
- Fahamu
- 17 September 2009
Civil 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.
Saudi private $533 mln agri-business firm eyes 2010 start
- Reuters
- 09 September 2009
A 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.
Gulf investors more covert on land deals
- Daily Nation
- 30 August 2009
Land buying firms no longer disclose their identities to avoid tarnishing their image
Global standards for “land grabs”
- OECD
- 09 July 2009
IFAD is supporting a pilot initiative to promote properly structured ("win-win") agricultural land deals in Ghana.
The 'change we need'? Obama in Ghana
- Pambazuka
- 09 July 2009
A 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.
The worldwide grab of farmland and water resources
- Ghana News
- 27 June 2009
Together 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.
La pugna por la tierra amenaza a los africanos
- El País
- 25 May 2009
Las 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).
Any lessons for Ghana in India’s jatropha failure?
- Ghana Business News
- 23 May 2009
A 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.
South African farmers in high demand across Africa
- Ghana Business News
- 09 May 2009
A number of African countries are inviting South African farmers to come over to their countries and ply their trade, and Libya is included.
Commodity giants on our shores
- Business Day
- 23 February 2009
“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
Se venden países
- Rebelion
- 13 December 2008
Las 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.