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Fresh scrutiny for land grab
- Weekly Times
- 31 Mar 2011
Foreign ownership of Australian land and agribusiness will soon be monitored.
Local farmers must not be forgotten in global land rush
- The Guardian
- 31 Mar 2011
Vast tracts of farmland in poor nations being gobbled up by foreign investors could undermine small farmers' rights and food security in the host countries
Au Mali, des paysans réclament leurs terres vendues à Kadhafi
- TerraEco.net
- 30 Mar 2011
Depuis trois ans, le gouvernement malien attribue les champs des agriculteurs à des investisseurs privés et étrangers, notamment libyens. Mais les habitants de la boucle du Niger tentent de reprendre leur bien, femmes en première ligne.
La Chine étend son pouvoir économique au Brésil
- AFP
- 30 Mar 2011
Un secteur en progression constante est l'achat direct ou indirect de terres brésiliennes pour l'agriculture, surtout pour la production de soja.
L’Egypte se tourne vers le Soudan pour sa sécurité alimentaire et son eau
- Nouvelle Solidarité
- 30 Mar 2011
Les responsables soudanais ont déclaré que 17000 hectares de terre dans l’Etat du Nil blanc ont été réservés au projet de production de viande pour l'Egypte
Lobby afrouxa limite de terras a estrangeiros
- Agência Estado
- 30 Mar 2011
Lobby de grandes empresas do agronegócio - sobretudo dos setores sucroalcooleiro e de plantio de florestas - está fazendo o governo rever o limite legal para compra de terras por estrangeiros, que vinha se tornando mais rigoroso nos últimos meses.
Gambian leader aims at agro-export
- All About Feed
- 30 Mar 2011
President says a Gulf State company is expected to invest $80-100 million in the country's agriculture in the near future, citing a 400,000 ha rice project.
Protocole d'accord entre la Société SENETHANOL et la communauté rurale de Fanaye
- 30 Mar 2011
Protocol portant accord de principe de la mise à la disposition pour Fanaye à Senethanol (Italie) d'une surface cultivable de 20,000ha destiné à la culture de patates doueces et à la production d'éthanol et d'aliments de bétails.
Ethiopia: A country for sale
- Pambazuka
- 30 Mar 2011
Ethiopia is on sale. Everybody is getting a piece of her. For next to nothing. The land vultures have been swooping down on Gambella from all parts of the world.
Bangladesh govt prods local investors to farm cotton, food in Africa
- Financial Express
- 30 Mar 2011
The move comes after two fact-finding missions led by the foreign secretary last year found farming in the so-called dark continent "exceedingly lucrative" for Bangladeshi investors.
President's Administration says foreigners should have right to privatize farmland
- ForUm
- 30 Mar 2011
First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration Iryna Akimova said that foreign nationals should be eligible for the privatization of agricultural land in Ukraine.
Uruguay’s farmland price jumped eight times from 2002 to 2010
- MercoPress
- 30 Mar 2011
President Jose Mujica said that private land sales will be honoured but under no conditions will sovereign funds or foreign countries be allowed to purchase land in Uruguay as is happening in Africa.