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Hon. Shaka Sama congratulated Culture Radio for being the only radio station in Sierra Leone that has taken up the issue, nothing that “The role of the media is crucial in the fight against land grabbing”.
A terme, le projet devrait produire 550 tonnes de graines de tournesol, 19500 tonnes de patate douce et 3120 m3 de bioéthanol par jour, les tiges et les fleurs pourront servir à la production de bioénergie et au fourrage pour le bétail.
Win Zaw, a motorbike taxi driver who lost nearly everything when Cyclone Nargis hit, stands by a hut where his family once ran a farm in Shan-su near Kyaiklat town May 24, 2012. 30 percent of Burma's rural population is classified as "landless," the Asian Development Bank said in a June study.(Photo: REUTERS/Damir Sagolj)
The Nansanga farm block, a 155,000 hectare area, is part of the Zambian government’s programme to open up farm blocks in various parts of the country to primary production and value addition. The Hungarian Bonafarm Group recently won the tender to develop Nansanga farm block’s core venture plot of 10,000 ha. (Source: Daily Mail)
FIRB chair Brian Wilson said that the number of investment proposals put to the regulator was slightly down in 2012 on last year. (Source: The Australian)
Opposition leader Tony Abbott said while he welcomed foreign investment, Australia needed to improve oversight when it came to farmland and agribusiness
The reform states that the sum of foreign individuals, legal entities receiving foreign capital, or those acting on their behalf, can "only" purchase up to 15% of the Colombia's total land, including land that has already been acquired previously.
"We are five years into a severe global food crisis that is very unlikely to go away," writes Grantham. "It will threaten poor countries with increased malnutrition and starvation and even collapse. Resource squabbles and waves of food-induced migration will threaten global stability and global growth. This threat is badly underestimated by almost everybody and all institutions with the possible exception of some military establishments."
Community meeting about the laws rules on land acquisitions in Uganda as they apply to kalangala held on Thursday 20th. 4. 2012 at water world hotel Kalangala
"The issue of land grabbing is becoming too much. In Hoima most communal land has been fenced and titles given to people we don't know. I will stand to defend my people in parliament," Ugandan MP Kaahwa Tophace Byagira (pictured left) said.
"Basically we're looking at the former Soviet Union, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and of course the big opportunity is Africa," says Laperouse.
