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Land moves up the political agenda
- CIP & AWEPA
- 22 February 2011
In Mozambique, there has been an unofficial halt to new large land grants.
PARENA: Memorandum on land acquisitions in the Office du Niger
- PARENA
- 22 February 2011
The National Renaissance Party calls on the Government of Mali to publish a full list of beneficiaries of land and the areas granted to them.
Maguindanao massacre area eyed for banana farm
- Philippine Star
- 22 February 2011
A local subsidiary of Saudi Arabian firm Abbar and Zainy has proposed turning a wide swathe of land in Sultan Kudarat and Maguindanao – including the site of the Maguindanao massacre – into a banana plantation.
Businesses urge Dubai to snap up farmland abroad
- The National
- 22 February 2011
Dubai business leaders have urged the Government to snap up farmland overseas to grow basic staples as a buffer against soaring food prices.
Qatar plans to make barren land arable to increase food security
- Green Prophet
- 21 February 2011
Unlike other Gulf countries that are usurping African land to expand their agricultural capacity, Qatar intends to transform its own barren land into an agricultural powerhouse.
International agri-capital farm renting intensifies Gambela’s woes
- Nazret
- 21 February 2011
Modern machineries of all sorts, owned and run by agri-companies, are turning the soils inside out, destroying forests and beginning to pollute the environment to get more production.
Ethiopian "sacred forests" sold to Indian tea producer
- afrol News
- 18 February 2011
Despite opposition from Ethiopia's President and environmental authorities, a rainforest area providing livelihood to an indigenous people has been leased out to make tea plantations.
Standard Chartered Private Equity to invest $83 million in Australia’s biggest livestock exporter Wellard Group
- InvestAustralia
- 18 February 2011
The investment is to enable Wellard grow the business through a number of identified agribusinesses opportunities throughout the wider Asian region.
Farmers see ‘land grab’ as opportunity
- Radio Netherlands
- 18 February 2011
In recent years sixteen investors, from Israel, Ethiopia and the Netherlands, have opened large-scale farms nearby the village of Hidi, south of Addis Ababa.
Silence over Ethiopian land grab broken
- Afrik News
- 17 February 2011
Land grabbing poses no harm on the environment or on the local community, says Saudi billionaire Sheik Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi who is seeking to expand his farmland in Ethiopia from 10,000 hectares to 250,000 hectares.
Rising world food prices may soon hit Africa hard, but could be a future boon
- CSMonitor
- 16 February 2011
Africa is bracing for short-term trouble, but sustained high prices could spark agribusiness investment across the continent.
We all have the duty to resist land grabbing!
- FIAN
- 15 February 2011
Following the suggestion of French NGOs, La Via Campesina and ROPPA, with the support of FIAN, Friends of the Earth International, CCFD – Terre Solidaire and Peuples Solidaires, took leadership to facilitate an assembly of convergence of all groups interested in launching a strong appeal against land grabbing in Dakar.