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Land grabbing: Indonesia is moving for people's rights
- La Via Campesina
- 16 January 2012
A large rally of 7,000 people demanding agrarian reform and people’s rights shook Jakarta and 27 other provinces all across Indonesia on January 12.
China looks abroad to satisfy growing appetite
- Sydney Morning Herald
- 16 January 2012
About 8000 square kilometres of farmland around the world are now in Chinese hands, Chinese current affairs magazine Phoenix Weekly reports.
Karuturi’s woes have begun
- Indian Ocean Newsletter
- 13 January 2012
The Ethiopian ministry of agriculture is against the firm Karuturi’s plan to install thousands of Indian farmers in land it has leased in the Gambela region.
Madagascar Future Entreprises
- Indian Ocean Newsletter
- 13 January 2012
The Korean company Daewoo Logistics Corporation has acquired all the shares in the agribusiness company Madagascar Future Entreprises. Its manager Kwon Kim is believed to have begun new negotiations with the present Malagasy government for agricultural projects.
Hard assets - Farmland investing Perry Vieth on Bloomberg
- Bloomberg
- 12 January 2012
"The institutional investors are just starting to get into farmland," says Perry Vieth, president of Ceres Partners LLC
Millions of dollars due to be invested in rice production and processing in Mozambique’s Zambézia province
- Macauhub
- 12 January 2012
Starting this year Olam Moçambique plans to invest over US$35 million to make use of the agricultural potential of the Mopeia area to produce large amounts of rice on 227 hectares of land to supply the domestic market.
"The Zambezi Valley: China's first agricultural colony?" Fiction or fact?
- chinaafricarealstory.com
- 12 January 2012
No evidence to support the idea that “China” was intending to create an agricultural colony in Mozambique, or make the Zambezi Valley into China’s rice bowl.
Pigs and protection money: German farmers seek their fortunes in Russia
- Der Spiegel
- 12 January 2012
German farmer plans to expand his operation to 250,000 hectares, an area the size of the state of Saarland, and to float his company on the stock market in Germany, where he pays a portion of his taxes.
Liberia among top 5 countries giving farmland to foreigners
- Liberian Observer
- 12 January 2012
Liberia is one of the top 5 countries in the world whose farmland are under the control of foreign concessionaires, according to a report made by Grain, a non-governmental organization supporting small farms.
Thousands of militant peasants rally to halt landgrabbing in Indonesia
- APC
- 12 January 2012
Militant peasants from Asian Peasant Coalition mounted a mobilisation against global land grabbing.
European banks fuelling food price volatility and hunger
- FOE
- 12 January 2012
European banks, pension funds and insurance companies are increasing global hunger and poverty by speculating on food prices and financing land grabs in poorer countries, according to a new report released today by Friends of the Earth Europe
Arab food, water and the big landgrab that wasn't
- BJWA
- 11 January 2012
Whether it is customary land rights in Africa, struggles for land reform on the Philippines or resistance in Irian Jaya against settlers from the Indonesian population centers, once Gulf countries invest in a country they own its socio-economic conflicts.