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BBC viewers' questions put to Cargill boss
- BBC
- 29 September 2011
Cargill CEO says he's "concerned" about foreign farmland grabs and says "no company's big enough to be a police force onto itself".
Agriculture investing: 7 billion people need to eat
- Energy and Capital
- 29 September 2011
"At the end of the day — for all the stocks and funds I've traded in countless industries — when I sit down and ponder true wealth, I always come back to one idea: land. Land can give you everything you need and more."
Stand up for small-scale food producers
- Grassroots International
- 29 September 2011
Groups urge people in the US and Canada to take action on land grabbing.
‘Work with local experts to avoid land grabbing practices’
- SNS Impact Investing
- 29 September 2011
SNS Impact Investing interviewed Dr. George Owusu from the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana in Accra.
For some Brazilian farmers Africa is the new frontier
- ANBA
- 29 September 2011
With opportunities in neighboring countries almost finished and due to the expensive land, Brazilian agriculture has started showing up in Africa, here and there, but promising to grow.
Land converted for biofuels, farmers harassed
- Bulatlat
- 29 September 2011
The case of farmers in Misamis Oriental in Mindanao, Philippines
Farmers fear Aquino selling out to foreign firms
- Bulatlat
- 29 September 2011
“These land lease schemes have turned farmers into mere low wage-earning agricultural workers instead of being empowered owner-cultivators.” – Randall Echanis, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas
AfDB, AUC and UNECA to discuss land investment in Nairobi
- AfDB
- 28 September 2011
The African Development Bank, the African Union Commission and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa will co-organize a high level Forum on foreign direct investments in agricultural land in Africa on 4 and 5 October 2011 in Nairobi
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.