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Food security and quest for foreign land
- Financial Express
- 11 May 2011
The government of Bangladesh has also been looking for farmland abroad -- in Burma, Kenya, Uganda
Sudan: Hundreds of farmers stage demonstrations in El-Gezira state
- Sudan Tribune
- 10 May 2011
Authorities arrest dozens of demonstrators and prevent journalists from reaching the area, while the office of Sudan's 2nd Vice president Ali Osman Taha denies reports that he has agreed to grant Egyptian farmers one million acres.
Zimbabwe: Twinning scheme to benefit farmers
- The Herald
- 10 May 2011
Farmers will provide part of their land to Hubei Province of China, which, in return, will fund their operations up to harvesting before buying the produce.
World Agriculture Investment Conference challenged by anti-hunger, faith, food and farm leaders
- USFSA
- 09 May 2011
Groups from across the U.S. are highlighting the dangers in a convergence of some of the world’s leading agribusiness and investment firms at a Chicago conference that starts today.
Responsible Agricultural Investment in LDC
- FAO
- 09 May 2011
FAO side-event in the margins of the 4th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC-IV) in Istanbul, Turkey, on 11 May 2011
Glencore: Profiteering from hunger and chaos
- Al Jazeera
- 09 May 2011
The world's largest commodities trader and major farmland owner is issuing a stock sale, and critics say the firm causes spikes in food prices.
Development agencies support harmful oil palm production
- IPS
- 09 May 2011
Increasing industrial production of oil palm in sub-Saharan African countries, carried out by foreign corporations, is destroying the livelihoods of thousands of Africans and the biodiversity of ecosystems.
Arab Investment and Export Credit Guarantee Corporation pledges to augment its operations in Sudan
- SUNA
- 09 May 2011
The Arab Investment and Export Credit Guarantee Corporation has pledged to exert more efforts to expand its operations in Sudan and to cover exports' security and credit at the level of all Arab investors in Sudan.
Brazil mulls leasing farmland to foreigners
- Reuters
- 09 May 2011
Brazil may start leasing farm land to foreigners to find a way around new legal restrictions on land sales and attract more foreign investment, the agriculture minister said.
ACT NOW! congratulates Acting PM on land grab announcement
- ACT NOW!
- 06 May 2011
SABLs have been used to take control of over 5 million hectares of land away from local people in the last few years. This means more than 10% of Papua New Guinea’s total land mass is now under the control of corporations.
Papua New Guinea suspends controversial grants of community forest lands to foreign corps
- Mongabay
- 06 May 2011
The government of Papua New Guinea suspended its Special Agricultural and Business Leases program which has granted concessions to mostly foreign corporations across 5.2 m ha of community forest land
Global land grab: The ongoing struggle (and a lost opportunity?)
- Water Channel
- 06 May 2011
Are land and water rights for real? How can they be guaranteed in the face of the insurmountable bargaining power that big corporations seem to posses?