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    • Twynam's flight to Africa
      • The Land
      • 24 April 2012

      Family that sold Australia's biggest water licence in history has been selling its NSW farming operations and is setting up a new agricultural empire in the Blue Nile state in Sudan

    • Dealing with Disclosure: Improved transparency in decision-making over large-scale land acquisitions, allocations and investments
      • Global Witness, OI, ILC
      • 24 April 2012

      Report looks at why it is vital to transform the secretive culture behind large scale land deals and sets out in detail what tools governments, companies and citizens can harness to ensure that this happens.

    • Meat Consumption in China Now Double That in the United States
      • 24 April 2012

      More than a quarter of all the meat produced worldwide is now eaten in China, and the country’s 1.35 billion people are hungry for more. In 1978, China’s meat consumption of 8 million tons was one third the U.S. consumption of 24 million tons. But by 1992, China had overtaken the United States as the world’s leading meat consumer—-and it has not looked back since. Now China’s annual meat consumption of 71 million tons is more than double that in the United States. With U.S. meat consumption falling and China’s consumption still rising, the trajectories of these two countries are determining the shape of agriculture around the planet.

    • World Bank overseeing global land grab
      • IPS
      • 23 April 2012

      The World Bank continues to facilitate land-grabbing in poor and developing countries around the world, according to new research released on Monday.

    • Campaigners claim World Bank helps facilitate land grabs in Africa
      • The Guardian
      • 23 April 2012

      Food shortages and rural deprivation exacerbated by World Bank policy, says NGO ahead of land and poverty conference

    • Land grabs video protest to World Bank
      • Earth Times
      • 23 April 2012

      Leading environmental campaigning organisation Friends of the Earth International and La Via Campesina have released two videos showing how projects financed by World Bank funds have allegedly led to African land grabs.

    • The global land rush: what the evidence reveals about scale and geography
      • IIED
      • 23 April 2012

      Plus other recent publications on land grabbing from IIED

    • Massive theft of developing world's farmland
      • IPS
      • 23 April 2012

      "During my research trips in Africa, I came across posters against the land grab deals," Liberti told IPS. "One said: ‘Future generations will damn your graves, because you did not leave them any land.’"

    • Nigeria’s agric development gets N144bn boost from World Bank
      • Guardian
      • 23 April 2012

      World Bank officials say they will further support the county in the development of staple crop processing zones, while a US company indicates interest in 25,000 ha rice project in Rima irrigation scheme, Sokoto.

    • American land grabs mirror Africa's colonial past
      • African Report
      • 23 April 2012

      While Africa may have celebrated the demise of colonialism, it seems the continent is sliding back to those days, as investors continue to push murky land deals.

    • Land Commodities to form farm fund
      • Alternative Outlook
      • 23 April 2012

      Responding to strong demand, asset management firm Land Commodities has plans to launch its first retail farmland fund. The company says it receives around 10 to 20 enquiries from private investors each week.

    • Farmland safe, say Crafar buyers as hikoi mobilises
      • NZ Herald
      • 23 April 2012

      The decision to approve the sale of NZ dairy farms to a Chinese company has prompted an "Aotearoa is Not for Sale" hikoi, which starts at dawn tomorrow with prayers at Cape Reinga.

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