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SMC urged to tap contract farmers
- Business World
- 26 September 2011
The Philippines agriculture department plans to persuade San Miguel Corp to resort to contract growing instead of leasing state land when it undertakes a planned farming venture.
UAE-China: A complementary relationship
- Gulf News
- 26 September 2011
Xinjiang and Nigxia present huge opportunities to Arab investors for mining coal, oil and gas as well as the development of wind and solar power, halal food industry and large-scale agriculture.
REDD+ in Mozambique: A new opportunity for land grabbers?
- AlertNet
- 26 September 2011
Some companies state that they ‘do not need rights to the land itself, but only to the carbon stocks - the trees on the land - to gain carbon credits to sell in the market’.
Indigenous organization under constant harassment and threats
- KALUMBAY Regional Lumad Organization
- 26 September 2011
Indigenous organization in the Philippines calls for the pulling out of a palm oil plantation project in their community.
Tanzania: Why land grabbing Is detrimental to women
- Tanzania Daily News
- 25 September 2011
Land rights activists have been expressing their fears and concerns about the malicious trend of selling or leasing large farmland to foreign multinational companies and governments.
Karuturi Global Ltd contemplating $2.5 billion investment in Tanzania's agriculture
- IndiaCompanyNews
- 24 September 2011
India-based company Karuturi Global Limited is planning to make an investment of $2.5 billion in farmland in Tanzania in the upcoming years.
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.