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SIFCA remaining positive despite losing CEO in Ivory Coast violence
- HowWeMadeItInAfrica
- 28 September 2011
"We encourage countries to speed up reforms to modernise land rights," says new CEO.
Land grabs and role of the US government
- NCR
- 27 September 2011
Civil society -- small farmers, fisher and forest folk, pastoralists -- look with a great deal of suspicion at the US and other countries’ intentions, reports David Andrews about upcoming meetings in Rome
China's Export-Import Bank to invest USD 10 billion into Ukraine's agricultural sector
- UNA
- 27 September 2011
Negotiations between Chinese Export-Import Bank and the Government of the Ukraine include discussion of its involvement in the financial operation of the land market in the Ukraine.
Gov’t reviewing big land-lease deals
- PDI
- 27 September 2011
Lease contracts covering millions of hectares of agricultural lands signed by the Philippines Department of Agriculture with foreign entities during the Arroyo administration are currently being reviewed to determine if they are in accord with the current administration’s food security plan.
SMC urged to tap contract farmers
- Business World
- 26 September 2011
The Philippines agriculture department plans to persuade San Miguel Corp to resort to contract growing instead of leasing state land when it undertakes a planned farming venture.
UAE-China: A complementary relationship
- Gulf News
- 26 September 2011
Xinjiang and Nigxia present huge opportunities to Arab investors for mining coal, oil and gas as well as the development of wind and solar power, halal food industry and large-scale agriculture.
REDD+ in Mozambique: A new opportunity for land grabbers?
- AlertNet
- 26 September 2011
Some companies state that they ‘do not need rights to the land itself, but only to the carbon stocks - the trees on the land - to gain carbon credits to sell in the market’.
Indigenous organization under constant harassment and threats
- KALUMBAY Regional Lumad Organization
- 26 September 2011
Indigenous organization in the Philippines calls for the pulling out of a palm oil plantation project in their community.
Tanzania: Why land grabbing Is detrimental to women
- Tanzania Daily News
- 25 September 2011
Land rights activists have been expressing their fears and concerns about the malicious trend of selling or leasing large farmland to foreign multinational companies and governments.
Karuturi Global Ltd contemplating $2.5 billion investment in Tanzania's agriculture
- IndiaCompanyNews
- 24 September 2011
India-based company Karuturi Global Limited is planning to make an investment of $2.5 billion in farmland in Tanzania in the upcoming years.
Thanks to speculative investors, the food market will be the next bubble to burst
- AlterNet
- 23 September 2011
Unfortunately, given the global nature of capital, even if the US were to completely shut down speculation, it would just move offshore.
CKUT: The Friday Morning After
- FMA
- 23 September 2011
Stefan Christoff interviews Devlin Kuyek (GRAIN) on land grabbing