• India: 900m hectares of arable land wasted in Africa
      • Daily Trust
      • 19 Mar 2012

      About 900 million hectares of arable land are not properly utilised for agriculture in Africa's rich soil, says Indian Minister of Industry, Commerce and Textile, Mr Anand Sharma.

    • Sudan sugar maker plans Hong Kong IPO
      • Reuters
      • 18 Mar 2012

      Kenana, Sudan's biggest sugar company, is planning to raise $200 million listing a quarter of its shares in Hong Kong in December, to finance new projects.

    • 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.

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