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New wave of agricultural land-grabs reaches Canada
- Dominion
- 27 September 2010
Quietly, these modern-day land marauders are coming to Canada—undermining family farms, compromising local food sovereignty, and harming the environment.
New Zealand to tighten rules on foreign buyers of farmland, English says
- Bloomberg
- 27 September 2010
New Zealand tightened rules for major international purchases of farmland and will now require buyers to show how an acquisition benefits the nation’s economy.
Land grab: Tokyo sees farming investment rules as key to survival
- Asahi Shimbun
- 27 September 2010
Major Japanese trading firms are cautious about Japan buying agricultural land overseas, growing food there and then importing it. One reason, it seems, is their past failures in the agriculture business.
NZ puts new controls on land sales
- Radio New Zealand
- 27 September 2010
New Zealand's government announced on Monday it will place new controls on overseas investors buying large land holdings.
Land grab: Africa at the mercy of investors abroad
- Asahi Shimbun
- 27 September 2010
The fact is, Madagascar agriculture must rely on foreign capital, despite the risk of problems from farmland deals, according to Masanobu Furuya of the Asahi Shimbum
Food prices rise as Asia projects stall
- Wall St Journal
- 26 September 2010
Some projects aimed at increasing food production in Asia have been dropped or delayed amid the financial crisis, notes a new report by IRRI and the Asia Society.
Israel mulls leasing land in Russia
- Xinhua
- 24 September 2010
Israel has asked Russia's republic of Tatarstan to lease 1.5 million hectares of its land, said a visiting Israeli businessman on Friday.
Perampasan Tanah: Sebab, Bentuk dan Akibatnya bagi Kaum Tani
- AGRA
- 24 September 2010
AGRA paper on land grabbing in Indonesia, during the period 2004-2010, for food and agrofuels production (in Bahasa Indonesia only).
Would Cecil Rhodes have signed a code of conduct?
- Oxfam
- 24 September 2010
Over the past year, I have been collecting material on biofuels, land rights in Africa, and global land grabbing. Reading through this material worries me greatly, for it carries very strong echoes of Cecil Rhodes and his merry men.
Karuturi set to raise $100 mn
- Business Standard
- 24 September 2010
India's Karuturi plans to emerge as a leading player in agriculture in the African continent, with revenues from agriculture trumping revenues from floriculture in two years.
Fonterra eyes more farms in China
- NZ Herald
- 24 September 2010
"What China needs is safe, healthy Chinese milk and it starts all the way up stream with farming," Fonterra's CEO Andrew Ferrier said.
The mob action in Tema
- Ghana Web
- 23 September 2010
Wilmar claim to be investing in project that will employ 500 people with investment capital of $40 million. Yet the land in question supports the entire fishing industry in Tema.