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Lessons from Brazil in Mozambique's Nacala Corridor
- This is Africa
- 27 February 2013
Brazil is helping develop Mozambican agriculture by promoting large-scale farming and supporting smallholders. Can it do both at once?
Middle East secretly targets our farms
- Adelaide Now
- 25 February 2013
A Qatari Government-owned company is buying up prime agricultural land in South Australia at well above market rates and is forcing farmers to sign confidentiality agreements.
Land tenure plan 'not anti-investment'
- SA News
- 25 February 2013
The proposal to limit foreign farmland ownership in South Africa to a leasehold of a minimum of 30 years is not a sign of antagonism to foreign investment, says Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti.
Indian land grabs in Ethiopia show dark side of south-south co-operation
- The Guardian
- 25 February 2013
The takeover of peoples' land and water by corporations – even if they are from the global south – is a new form of colonisation, writes Anuradha Mittal.
Government adopts land policy in South Sudan
- Sudan Tribune
- 24 February 2013
Land grabbing, which is the acquisition of land without regard for the interests of existing land rights holders, and disagreements regarding boundaries between counties and payams (districts) will also be addressed by the policy.
Wilmar buys 53.7% stake in Noble’s Indonesia palm venture
- Today Online
- 23 February 2013
Wilmar International has taken a majority stake in a palm plantation venture in Indonesia’s Papua owned by Noble Group, giving the world’s biggest palm oil supplier a toehold in the province where it also hopes to grow sugar cane.
Berkshire finally takes a stake in Archer Daniels Midland
- Seeking Alpha
- 22 February 2013
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has initiated a position in Archer Daniels Midland when it is anticipated that companies like ADM and Bunge will seek out targeted acquisitions of global farmland in order to both expand and diversify operations
Land grabbing looms: New palm oil plantation threatens Cameroon's rainforest
- Huffington Post
- 22 February 2013
"We will continue to speak out against what can only be considered land grabbing, because the proposed location of Herakles Farms plantation is in the midst of a rainforest that sustains my local community and our unique wildlife."
Patient for profits
- World Magazine
- 22 February 2013
US-based Aslan Global Management, a leader in the "patient capital" movement, manages more than 12,000 hectares of farmland in Ukraine and Mozambique on long-term lease and just entered into a 99-year lease for 45,000 hectares in Tanzania.
Mozambican farmers fear foreign land grabs
- IPS
- 22 February 2013
“In the very short term land will became scarcest for Mozambicans because the government is attracting foreign investors arguing that we have huge unused land“, a spokesperson for UNAC told IPS. “What happens, in fact, when investors come, their appetite is centered on land already being used by locals.”
Palm oil expansion threatens Congo Basin forests - report
- AlertNet
- 21 February 2013
Industrial cultivation of oil palm has "wreaked havoc" on rainforests and forest peoples in Southeast Asia and now threatens to do the same in the Congo Basin, a report from the Rainforest Foundation UK warns
Georgia farms face Indian 'invasion'
- Al Jazeera
- 21 February 2013
Thousands of Punjabi farmers have bought land in distant Georgia lured by cheap prices, angering some locals.