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Asian palm oil: limited supply
- FT
- 18 April 2011
Industry giants such as Malaysia’s Sime Darby and Singapore’s Olam and Wilmar International are scrambling for fresh space in equatorial Africa.
World Bank conference on Land and Poverty 2011
- World Bank
- 18 April 2011
Video of the Panel: Can Funds and Financial Institutions promote good land-based investment practice? Featuring represetatives of Rabobank, Emergent Asset Management, TIAA-CREF and Galtere Ltd).
Missing food security
- Pakistan Observer
- 18 April 2011
UAE is ready to build small dams for cultivation on lands they would acquire in Pakistan, provided the government ensures that there is no ban on exports.
Opposition to call referendum on privatization of farmland, says Tymoshenko
- Interfax
- 18 April 2011
Opposition says "the privatization of farmland in the execution of an order of the incumbent president and his entourage is a large-scale scam, which will deprive Ukraine of a great part of its land."
Agricultural land grabs threaten local property rights and sustainable development
- WRI
- 18 April 2011
Governments often justify these deals by citing their potential contribution to economic growth – however, any gains risk being greatly outweighed by negative impacts on local livelihoods, say WRI
WB, UN and govts told to back off lands
- Morung Express
- 18 April 2011
The World Bank, UN agencies and governments are criticized for promoting agricultural investments that are resulting in land grabbing on a massive scale.
Yaregal Aysheshum
- The Reporter
- 18 April 2011
"The farmland that we are transferring to foreign investors is not the land that is being used by the locals," asserts Yaregal Aysheshum, former president of the Benshangul Gumuz Regional State in Ethiopia
Financiers lock horns over macro policies while millions go hungry
- IPS
- 17 April 2011
An immense coalition of peasant collectives and land-rights organisations stated that the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty happening here this weekend would likely sign thousands of hectares away from farming communities into the hands of industrial corporations.
The Kazangulu land clearance in Zambia ... by I.P.A. Manning
- 17 April 2011
In Zambia 15,000 hectares along the Zambezi River in the Kazungula district will be cleared of its forest, and sugar cane planted for ethanol and sugar production. It is not clear that the particular chief involved, or his customary community, were properly consulted or advised. No EIA has been produced
It's time to outlaw land grabbing, not to make it "responsible"!
- farmlandgrab.org
- 17 April 2011
Trying to compensate for the absence of legitimacy of these massive land deals by getting investors to adhere to a few principles is deceitful.
Sudan, UAE sign Memo of Understanding on Protection and Encouragement of Investment
- SUNA
- 17 April 2011
Sudan and UAE have agreed to concentrate investment in the field of agriculture, referring that the UAE Al-Thahra Company expressed desire to invest in Sudan as strategic partner in the food security projects.
Kingdom eyes settlement in Egypt land case
- Reuters
- 16 April 2011
Saudi's Kingdom Holding said on Saturday it had not given up contested land in southern Egypt and had spoken to Egypt's public prosecutor about a settlement.