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Landgrabbing in Mali
- WSFTV
- 09 February 2011
Youcoulele' dif Pap Sacko talks about a workshop on land grabs at the World Social Forum in Dakar and the case of the Malibya project in Mali.
Workshop "Land Grabbing in Africa"
- FSM2011
- 09 February 2011
Declaration from the workshop “Land Grabbing in Africa – Dangers and Challenges” that was held from 6 to 9 February, 2011, in Mbour / Senegal, as a side event to the World Social Forum 2011.
'Best chance' to end polio - Bill Gates promotes vaccines and food programs to attack poverty
- AllAfrica
- 09 February 2011
Gates says many large land deals in Africa are beneficial, criticizes Western groups for holding them back, and says those who invest in Africa are the ones who are at risk.
Local official dismissed over land grab protest
- Ethiopian Review
- 08 February 2011
Ato Tamiru, chairman of the Gumare Kebele in Gambella, western Ethiopia, and people in his kebele have been protesting the leasing of a large tract of land to an Indian company to be used for tea farming even though there is a severe food shortage in the country.
"Land grabbing is state banditry"
- WSFTV
- 08 February 2011
Interview with Ibrahima Coulibaly about land grabs in Mali
Social Forum slams Africa land-grab
- The Peninsula
- 08 February 2011
The leftist World Social Forum yesterday denounced land grabbing in Africa by foreign groups as a form of neo-colonialism in a day devoted to debates on the continent.
Visionary alternatives to boost food security
- The National
- 08 February 2011
Food security is back on the agenda with a bang, but while countries with money but little land want to invest elsewhere, few efforts are as emotive as a global "land grab".
FNC debates UAE's threatened food security
- Gulf News
- 08 February 2011
The UAE and other GCC member countries should draw up a unified food security strategy with the bloc, and not individual countries, investing in farms abroad to minimise risks of political blackmail.
Pakistan right to seek good ties with GCC
- Gulf News
- 07 February 2011
Pakistan Foreign Minister says there is a win-win situation in combining Pakistan's richness in agriculture with the GCC's richness in energy resources.
One way to create an African breadbasket
- CS Monitor
- 07 February 2011
Foreign investment in a Zambian farming firm may be a business model for Africa's hunger and food security problems.
Hunger and food security: Is Africa selling the farm?
- CSMonitor
- 06 February 2011
Foreign investors see Africa as a breadbasket. Done well, investment could help with African hunger but create food security for the rest of the world.
Ethiopian President Concerned by Lease of Forest to Indian Firm
- Bloomberg
- 04 February 2011
Ethiopian President Girma Woldegiorgis and the country’s environmental regulator have both written to the Agriculture Ministry expressing concern over the sale of forestry land to foreign agricultural companies.