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'They made us leave our farms'
- BBC
- 17 January 2012
BBC radio investigates report by Human Rights Watch that claims Britain is indirectly funding a brutally enforced resettlement programme in Ethiopia.
Ethiopian government denies forcible relocations
- BBC
- 17 January 2012
The Ethiopian government has denied forcibly relocating tens of thousands of people off their land to make way for foreign investors.
Chinese want slice of rural Australia
- Stock & Land
- 17 January 2012
Chinese company presidents met with Australian officials and company reps in Sydney to discuss ag investments, ranging from a $25 million, 20,000 ha cotton farm to a $350 million farmland purchase in Western Australia and Queensland.
Ethiopia: Forced relocations bring hunger, hardship
- HRW
- 16 January 2012
Many of the areas from which people are being moved are slated for leasing by the Ethiopian government for commercial agricultural development, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch.
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.