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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
King Country trusts join bid for Crafar farms
- Waatea
- 22 September 2011
Hardie Peni says joining the consortium with other iwi and agribusiness investors was the only way to get a chance to buy the land.
Foreign investors increase ‘land grabs,’ harming poor farmers, Oxfam says
- Bloomberg
- 22 September 2011
Foreign-investor purchases of farmland in poorer nations are displacing local populations and adding little to a country’s wealth, even as agricultural prices increase, according to Oxfam International.
Indonesian farmers win ‘land grab’ legal battle
- ucanews.com
- 22 September 2011
Four indigenous farmers won a legal battle Monday to have two controversial articles struck from a plantation law which they say prevent them from attempting to reclaim lost ancestral lands.
Farmland – tightening of foreign ownership rules
- WorldCrops.com
- 22 September 2011
Recent steep rises in land prices worldwide, alongside rising food prices, are prompting more governments to introduce restrictions on overseas land ownership in an attempt to protect against perceived threats to domestic farming interests and food availability.
Oxfam warns of land grab dangers
- Celcias
- 22 September 2011
Preliminary research indicates as much as 227 million hectares - about the size of Western Europe - may have been sold, leased or licensed in large-scale land deals since 2001.
Algeria invites interest from farmland investors
- Reuters
- 21 September 2011
Algeria has for the first time formally invited expressions of interest from investors, including foreigners, seeking to acquire stakes in the country's farming sector.
Agric. Ministry boosts rice production for food security
- Awoko
- 21 September 2011
Dutch-owned Genesis farms is producing Nerica rice seeds on 220 acres of land leased for 20 years in Port Loko District, Sierra Leone.
Call for organisations to sign the Dakar Appeal against land grabbing!
- 21 September 2011
Peasants affected by land grabbing will hand over the Dakar Appeal, together with the names of organizations endorsing it, to governments during the negotiations on the Guidelines in Rome from 10-14 October.
Receivers say Pengxin offer for Crafar farms still best
- Radio New Zealand
- 21 September 2011
The receivers of the Crafar farms say a bid from a New Zealand-based group is not as generous as the one from a Chinese group.
Land grabs in Africa threaten greater poverty
- Epoch Times
- 21 September 2011
Desperate for foreign investment and the promise of development, African governments are increasingly offering to foreigners what their people rely on most—land