For the sake of peace and future development cooperation, the nations of the Nile River Basin should come together to ban land grabs by foreign governments and agribusiness firms, writes Lester Brown
Environmentalists in Río Negro say the Chinese arrival will mean heavy use of agrochemicals, ecological degradation and severe strain on the region's water resources. Some of the land in question is virgin forest that would be deforested.
Ukraine has ditched proposals to allow foreigners to buy up its farmland in a privatisation process, to prevent wealthy multinationals snapping up its farmland on the cheap.
The chairman of New Zealand's largest dairy company has issued a warning over foreign ownership of Kiwi land.
"If we make the market free, then $30 billion will be enough - and that's not a lot for world financial corporations - to buy up all of our land," says Minister for Agrarian Policy.
New legislation for land acquisition in India are all aimed at facilitating greater corporate control over vast tracts of land, particularly agricultural and forest land, says president of Ekta Parishad.
That land is far more complex and valuable than plain dirt was one of the central themes of FC Business Intelligence’s “World Agriculture Investment USA” conference in Chicago on May 9-10, 2011. A report from AllAboutAlpha.
Investors in Africa’s agriculture sector need to be aware of the complexities surrounding land ownership.
Several Shawi communities have learned that a Korean company, ECOAMERICA, has applied for the registration and titling of over 72,000 ha of land in their territories, at a price of 80 cents a hectare, for agriculture and logging.
New Zealanders could not afford to be "totally xenophobic" towards Chinese investment because it has brought jobs and capital into the country, Prime Minister John Key said Monday.
The Chinese article on the deal emphasized that Chongqing citizens would get the soy oil at a very cheap price ("价格将更便宜").
Opposition activists in Kazakhstan called on the government on Saturday to stop Chinese investment in the country's natural resources, saying Beijing could be preparing a land grab in Central Asia
