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Fixing Pak food problems
- Pakistan Observer
- 26 July 2011
The Government of Pakistan should avoid providing land to the foreign investors and encourage the local small farmers for rapid poverty reduction and food security in the country.
Exposed: Ethiopia gives farmland to foreigners while thousands starve
- Survival
- 25 July 2011
A Survival investigation has uncovered alarming evidence that some of Ethiopia’s most productive farmland is being stolen from local tribes and leased to foreign companies to grow and export food – while thousands of its citizens starve during the devastating drought.
Pakistan offers free farmland to Japanese tsunami victims
- The News
- 24 July 2011
Pakistan is ready to offer free agriculture land to Japanese farmers who lost their crops and land in the March earthquake and tsunami, Tariq Puri, chief executive of the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan said in a meeting with Japanese officials.
Apex launch The Africasia Funds
- Apex Fund Services
- 23 July 2011
The first Africasia Sustainable Farming Fund will be investing in land across the Africasia region and in Sri Lanka to take advantage of the current post war economic boom in the country and the demand and shortfall for basic food crops in the region and globally, reports Apex Fund Services, a UK-based hedge fund
Draft Resolution by the Pan African Parliament
- PAP
- 22 July 2011
Draft resolution from the workshop of the Pan African Parliament under the theme Making investment Work for Africa: a Parliamentarian Response to “Land Grabs”
Land grabs, zero sum game
- Land for African Women
- 21 July 2011
How can we ensure that women do not fall into a trap of the idea of land ownership in a context where even those (men) who have secure rights are not able to hold on to their tenure!
Famine and abundance rub shoulders in Ethiopia
- Infosud/swissinfo.ch
- 21 July 2011
While millions of people in the Horn of Africa suffer a terrible drought, foreign investors are harvesting tonnes of cereals to be exported to Asia and the Gulf states.
Kilombero boiling with land-grabbing disputes
- The Guardian
- 20 July 2011
Land-Grabbing is slowly becoming a serious problem in Tanzania with the poor being turned into landless citizens in their own country in the name of foreign investors.
Ukraine's parliament passes law on land market
- Land Union of Ukraine
- 20 July 2011
On July 19, Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada registered the project of law “On Land Market”. It was brought in by Nikolay Azarov, the head of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
Kilimo Kwanza: Knowledge among grassroots communities still scant
- The Guardian
- 19 July 2011
Chunks of land that are being targeted for Kilimo Kwanza belong to rural-based small producers who are likely to lose it to large-scale investors as pillar number five of the programme advocates for amendments of the Village Land Act No. 5 of 1999 to facilitate acquisition of land for large scale investment.
Korean firms go abroad for farming land
- Korea Times
- 19 July 2011
There are 73 South Korean companies farming on over 23,000 ha of land in 18 countries, according to a new report.
Chairman of Ukraine's Parliament supports the opening of the land market in Ukraine
- Land Union of Ukraine
- 18 July 2011
The main idea of this reform is to abolish the moratorium for selling agricultural land in Ukraine.