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Interview with Armando Guebuza - President of Mozambique

BBC
11 August 2014

President Armando Guebuza discusses corruption and landgrabs in this interview with Zeinab Badawi on BBC's HARDtalk.

Chiquita Banana brand receives a counter to its inversion plan

New York Times
11 August 2014

Chiquita Brands International received an unsolicited offer on Monday from two Brazilian companies, including private equity fund and farmland owner Safra Group.

US fund continues WA farm spree

West Australian
11 August 2014

A US pension fund investor that flies under the radar has continued its spending spree on quality agricultural land in WA with the purchase of two farms in Grass Patch for about $9 million.

Regional seminar at the Pan-African Parliament “Making agricultural investment work for Africa: a Parliamentarian response to the land rush”

AWEPA
11 August 2014

Parliamentarians of the SADC-Parliamentary Forum and the Pan-African Parliament debate on strategies to ensure that foreign investment in agriculture brings benefits to local populations

Farmers, rural women and mining impacted communities at the 2014 SADC People´s Summit to propose people-based regionalism

Via Campesina
08 August 2014

Land has been grabbed at a significant scale in almost all SADC countries and the agribusiness model is destroying peasant-family agriculture, which produces most of the food for SADC countries.

'Crude stats' show foreigners own only 2% of farmland

NZ Herald
08 August 2014

Earlier this week, the Overseas Investment Office said it did not know how much farmland was owned by foreigners. Yesterday it told Prime Minister Key it believed the amount is 1 to 2 per cent.

Improving Japanese ODA based on Scientific Research - Cases of Pesticide Assistance and ProSAVANA in Mozambique- beyond KAIZEN

No Landgrab Japan
07 August 2014

Presentation by Yasuo Kondo to the International Conference “Exchange of Experiences on the role of scientific research in the Advocacy of Public Policies”.

New Zealand: Land sales row flares again

NZ Herald
07 August 2014

Political parties line up to attack Government over proposed buy-up of Lochinver Station farmland by Shanghai Pengxin, the same Chinese interests that created a furore over the purchase of Crafar Farms

China-style investment policy might resolve land sale row

Xinhua
06 August 2014

New Zealand should consider adopting policies similar to China's where strategic assets like farmland cannot be sold to foreign investors, only leased, a senior academic said Tuesday.

Interview: Chinese farm purchase fears part of wider investment debate: New Zealand farmers head

Xinhua
05 August 2014

The head of New Zealand's main farming organization on Tuesday said it welcomed Chinese investment, but urged prospective buyers of farmland to understand the pressures facing New Zealand farmers.

Farm Land Grab in British Columbia: Robson Valley Residents Take on Absentee Farm Owners

Robson Valley Residents Take on Absentee Farm Owners
05 August 2014

After the riverside community of Dunster, B.C. learned a landholdings company owned by U.S. billionaires bought nearly 1,000 acres in the area, residents voiced concerns about rising real estate prices, abandoned farmland and declining populations throughout the Robson Valley. As the area's aging farmers sell off property to fund retirement, newcomers vying to live off the land find themselves competing with global investors.

Africa agricultural initiative gets $7 billion boost from private companies

Washington Post
05 August 2014

African and US firms announce an additional $7 bn in spending to promote ag development in Africa, even though “private interests do not always line up with foreign policy objectives,” such as when they purchase land, displacing villagers.

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Interview with Armando Guebuza - President of Mozambique

Chiquita Banana brand receives a counter to its inversion plan

US fund continues WA farm spree

Regional seminar at the Pan-African Parliament “Making agricultural investment work for Africa: a Parliamentarian response to the land rush”

Farmers, rural women and mining impacted communities at the 2014 SADC People´s Summit to propose people-based regionalism

'Crude stats' show foreigners own only 2% of farmland

Improving Japanese ODA based on Scientific Research - Cases of Pesticide Assistance and ProSAVANA in Mozambique- beyond KAIZEN

New Zealand: Land sales row flares again

China-style investment policy might resolve land sale row

Interview: Chinese farm purchase fears part of wider investment debate: New Zealand farmers head

Farm Land Grab in British Columbia: Robson Valley Residents Take on Absentee Farm Owners

Africa agricultural initiative gets $7 billion boost from private companies

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