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UNCTAD: Investment in the agricultural sector with a view to building productive capacities
- UNCTAD
- 26 April 2010
UNCTAD's Investment, Enterprise and Development Commission met and discussed the current land grabbing trend on 26 April 2010.
(Mis)investment in Agriculture: Foreword by Howard G. Buffett
- Oakland Institute
- 26 April 2010
"Here’s what I’m sure of: these deals will make the rich richer and the poor poorer, creating clear winners who benefit while the losers are denied their livelihoods."
Food Estate rejected
- VIVA News
- 26 April 2010
The Agricultural Stance Coalition has rejected the government’s plan to establish a food estate in Merauke, Papua. According to them, the plan sounds reckless and letting the people of Indonesia become slaves in their own country.
UAE considers mechanism to safeguard food supplies
- Gulf News
- 26 April 2010
The UAE will set up a strategic food stock as part of a food security strategy that includes aquiring farmland in African and Asian countries
US remarks: Roundtable on Responsible Agricultural Investment
- US State Dept
- 25 April 2010
We need to hear the results of research and case studies done by FAO, UNCTAD, IFAD and the World Bank, so we can respond as governments and organizations based on solid information and not hearsay.
Ethiopia: Land rent contractual agreement made between Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Ruchi Agri PLC
- 25 April 2010
Contract covers the lease of 25,000 ha in the Regional State of Gambela for a period of 25 years, with option for renewal.
Statement by Qatar to Roundtable on Responsible Agricultural Investments
- IIASA
- 25 April 2010
An equitable shared-benefits agreement can best provide the basis for responsible and sustainable agricultural development, especially in currently cultivated land areas where the yield gaps are large.
Gulf Cooperation Council food security: balancing the equation
- Nature
- 25 April 2010
"A key obstacle to more transparent debate and informed decisions by governments and investors [involved in global land transactions] is the lack of science-based information," writes Surendra Shah in Nature magazine
Singapore boosts local farming for food security
- AFP
- 25 April 2010
Government of Singapore has set up a fund to support feasibility studies on investments in overseas food zones, overseas contract farming and other non-traditional sources of food security for the city-state.
Women farmers, peasant movements and land grabbers
- Global Policy Forum
- 23 April 2010
On Earth Day plus one, we need to ask: what can stop this speculative juggernaut? And how can we support the rural farm communities – half of our humankind – who are fighting for sustainable food production.
China in Oz-farm move
- Weekly Times
- 23 April 2010
China may set up large pork and chicken operations in Australia as it strives to keep up a burgeoning demand for meat among Chinese consumers.
AMAN statement on Merauke Integrated Foor and Energy Estate
- AMAN
- 23 April 2010
"We request the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to conduct an independent study on the impact of MIFEE and other similar businesses to Indigenous Peoples in Merauke and around the world."