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Land grab to develop pastoral areas in Ethiopia?
- CELEP
- 17 Mar 2012
Two articles on large-scale land investment in Ethiopia examine the implications for smallholder farmers and pastoralists.
Ministry of agriculture suspends land provisioning
- The Reporter
- 16 Mar 2012
Ethiopia's Ministry of Agriculture has suspended the provision of land for investment purposes due to self-assessment.
Governments agree on voluntary rules to control land grabs
- IATP
- 16 Mar 2012
"The CFS is expected to adopt the VGs in May. Then for part two: laws with an enforcement mechanism. National laws, because that is where it really counts. And multilateral rules, too, to discipline foreign investors," write IATP.
Denounce land grabbing!
- Via Campesina
- 16 Mar 2012
Via Campesina asks people to fill out poster with the name of local land grabbers and to send in pictures of protest actions on the International Day of Peasant's Struggle.
The hydra head of land grabbing in Sierra Leone
- Awoko
- 16 Mar 2012
The million dollar question begging for answer is whether the country is deriving any benefit from these investments?
Governments should protect citizens’ interests
- The Star
- 16 Mar 2012
The bottom line is that it is the responsibility of the host governments to set policies and a legal framework that protect their citizens’ interests – by encouraging investment, and protecting the rights of affected individuals.
Barnaby Joyce breaks ranks over foreign ownership of farmland
- SMH
- 16 Mar 2012
The Australian Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce is pushing for even tougher restrictions on foreign ownership of farmland and agribusinesses than those advocated by his party, fuelling Liberal anger at Tony Abbott's failure to rein in National Party ''freelancing'' on sensitive economic issues.
Farmland hindered as asset class
- Professional Pensions
- 16 Mar 2012
The £35bn BT Pension Scheme is seeking to replace its commodity future exposure with investment in agricultural land
Chongqing agriculture companies venture abroad
- Want China Times
- 15 Mar 2012
Officials from Chongqing in southwest China plan to invest US$6 billion this year to develop agriculture in Brazil, Argentina, Canada and other countries.
Is Liberia land grab by foreign firms sowing seed of future conflict?
- Africa Today
- 15 Mar 2012
Small farmers lose livelihoods as 'controversial' palm-oil producing multinational moves in. Much of rural Liberia's population lives on land that has been in the family for generations.
SIWI report launch: Land acquisitions: How will they impact transboundary waters?
- SIWI
- 14 Mar 2012
A new exploratory report from the Stockholm International Water Institute investigates how the current surge in land acquisitions and investments by foreign countries, sovereign wealth funds, private corporations and domestic investors will affect transboundary water management, an area where current knowledge is sparse.
Liberation and the looting of African land
- Waging Nonviolence
- 14 Mar 2012
Despite decades of anti-colonial civilian resistance in Africa, a pernicious movement of land acquisition is overtaking the continent at a rate unprecedented since the conquests of the 19th Century.