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Dakar declaration against water and land grabbing
- ASF 2014
- 18 October 2014
We call on civil society, social movements, NGOs and trade unions from the Africa Social Forum to endorse this declaration and support its claims by all available means.
Food security and control over land
- Pakistan Observer
- 18 October 2014
The increase of international corporate land grabbing with the collusion of state Ministers, Senators and bureacrats has exacerbated the situation of unemployment and food insecurity in Pakistan
Agricultural commercialisation contracts: concessions over people?
- IIED
- 18 October 2014
Agricultural commercialisation concessions are contracts between governments and agribusiness companies for control over the supply of inputs and purchase of farm produce in a given geographical area.
China's Jilin Province seeks agro cooperation with Zambia
- Xinhua
- 17 October 2014
Zambian government says about 3,000 hectares of land was available for the Chinese province to establish its agricultural production and assured it of the Zambian government's support and cooperation.
Big superannuation funds reluctant to value agriculture investments are encouraged to buy into water trade instead
- ABC
- 17 October 2014
Big institutional investors are being encouraged to get a slice of Australia's $1.6 billion market in annual water trading as a way to buy into agriculture.
Chinese-backed consortium wants to buy up south-west dairy farms
- The Standard
- 17 October 2014
A consortium hoping to buy dozens of south-west dairy farms aims to operate “on a scale not considered in Australia before,” a spokesman for the consortium says.
In Ethiopia, foreign investment is a fancy word for stealing land
- Quartz
- 17 October 2014
Land grabs in the developing world create a system so unequal that resource-rich countries become resource dependent.
World Food Security Committee puts corporate investors before human rights
- IUF
- 17 October 2014
Significant progress in the negotiations to recognise the importance of workers’ rights is undermined by the text on trade and investment agreements which will destroy those very rights.
EU commission sues Hungary over foreigners' right to buy farmland
- Reuters
- 16 October 2014
The European Commission started legal action against Hungary over the right of foreigners to buy agricultural land, saying restrictions on such purchases violated the European Union's principle of free movement of capital.
Family farms produce 80 percent of world's food, speculators seek land
- Reuters
- 16 October 2014
Some analysts worry that family farms are under increasing pressure from speculators, as prices for land rise due to a growing world population.
CFS in Rome: The majority of governments remain blind to the challenges of global food security
- Via Campesina
- 16 October 2014
Via Campesina says the Principles for responsible investment in agriculture do not contain sufficient safeguards to stop land grabbing and other destructive actions by private capital and complicit governments.
Principles for responsible agriculture and food investments are approved
- FAO
- 16 October 2014
FAO Director-General says that a clear and unified set of principles will "enable larger and more sustainable investment in agriculture"