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    • Official: Gunmen kill 5 farmworkers in Ethiopia
      • Associated Press
      • 29 April 2012

      Gunmen attacked the camp of an agricultural company owned by a Saudi billionaire in southwest Ethiopia, Federal Affairs Minister Shiferaw Teklemariam said.

    • Land rush continues, deals target poor, group says
      • Bloomberg
      • 27 April 2012

      The global rush to buy farmland continues, and international investors are focusing on the poorest countries with weak land-rights security for deals, according to a report by the Land Matrix research group.

    • Activists challenge African 'land grab'
      • Real News
      • 27 April 2012

      The World Bank and Wall Street firms targeted for African land deals displacing hundreds of thousands.

    • The Land Matrix: Much ado about nothing
      • Rural Modernity
      • 27 April 2012

      Exploring the fundamental data flaws in the Land Matrix dataset

    • An agribusiness attack in West Papua: Unravelling MIFEE
      • awasMIFEE
      • 27 April 2012

      The Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate is a vast mega-project, a plan for over a million hectares of plantations and industrialised agriculture that threatens the people and environment across the southern part of West Papua. Indonesian and foreign companies have each claimed their share of the land, and offer the local Malind people next-to-nothing in exchange for the forest that has sustained them for countless generations.

    • International land deals: who is investing and where - get the data
      • The Guardian
      • 27 April 2012

      An international coalition of NGOs and research groups has published the world's largest database of land grab deals struck since 2000, offering unprecedented detail on who's investing, where and what for.

    • Malawi: Without land reform, small farmers become "trespassers"
      • IRIN
      • 26 April 2012

      In 2009 Dororthy Dyton and about 2,000 other subsistence farmers in southern Malawi’s Chikhwawa District were informed by their local chief that the land had been sold and they could no longer cultivate there.

    • 'Equality' is not enough
      • Pambazuka
      • 26 April 2012

      Land rights are essentially political issues; but where women’s land rights are concerned, the solutions take on a legal dimension.

    • Chinese “land grabs” in Africa – the reality behind the news
      • SIANI
      • 26 April 2012

      This policy brief gives a brief overview of the available evidence of large-scale Chinese investment in agriculture, then discusses the extent to which the purpose of such investment is to export produce back to China.

    • Land rights and the World Bank Group: Setting the record straight
      • World Bank
      • 25 April 2012

      Some CSOs are using the media to paint an inaccurate and distorted picture of the World Bank Group’s work and they are questioning the motives of the conference, says the World Bank's Klaus Deininger.

    • Growing concentration of land is in foreign hands
      • Latinamerica Press
      • 25 April 2012

      The processes of concentration, foreign ownership and land degradation came to be a central concern of supranational bodies and NGOs that warn of the “negative effects of these phenomena on food security, agricultural employment and the development of family farming.”

    • Foreign investment in the time of the telegram
      • The Land
      • 25 April 2012

      Senator believes a revision of foreign investment rules must adequately consider the changing nature of national sovereignty, in the face of a mounting global food security task.

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