Africa: Land grab or development? (NHK)
    Documentary for Japan Broadcasting Corporation, focusing on Tanzania and Ethiopia
    • NHK
    • 08 January 2010
    NHK World on land grabbing in Africa
    Programme aired on NHK World presenting a documentary by Kohei Tsuji filmed in Ethiopia and Tanzania - in Japanese only - 35 minutes
    • NHK
    • 08 January 2010
    Call for cases on land rights and the right to food
    The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food launches a call for cases that illustrate the links between security of land tenure, access to land and the right to food.
    • UNHCR
    • 08 January 2010
    Call for papers: 4th London International Oromo Workshop on the scramble for land
    A one-day workshop on the scramble for land, ‘investment’ and environmental degradation in Oromia: consequences for the future (City University London, 3 July 2010)
    • gadaa.com
    • 08 January 2010
    Land grab? The race for the world's farmland
    This new publication marks one of the first efforts in the United States to bring together perspectives from international organizations, farmers, and investors alike about a trend often referred to as a new phase of the world food crisis.
    • Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars
    • 08 January 2010
    Un mouvement spéculatif mondial : Ruée sur les terres africaines
    L’achat massif de ces terres aux seules fins de spéculation financière porte en lui le germe du conflit, du désastre environnemental, du chaos politique et de la faim à un degré jamais connu dans le passé, écrit Joan Baxter.
    • Le Monde Diplomatique
    • 08 January 2010
    The South Africa-Congo concession: Exploitation or salvation?
    The much-discussed Congo land-lease, granting 200,000 hectares to South African farmers with a further 10 million hectares in the balance, appears to mark a departure from the usual terms underpinning foreign acquisition of fertile land by multinationals
    • Pambazuka
    • 07 January 2010
    I grandi capitalisti alla conquista delle terre coltivabili dei paesi poveri
    Si impadroniscono delle risorse naturali sempre più scarse attraverso la guerra delle armi o il danaro. La scomparsa delle popolazioni in via di sviluppo a loro non importa.
    • ComeDonChisciotte
    • 07 January 2010
    Arab nations ask to set up rice processing outlets
    Saudi Arabia and neighbours take a new tack in the quest to secure supplies of food from Thailand, this time seeking rice processing factories.
    • Bangkok Post
    • 07 January 2010
    Corporate farming in Pakistan opposed
    Voicing aversion to corporate agriculture farming, speakers at a seminar on Wednesday underlined the need for taking effective steps to counter its adverse effects in Pakistan.
    • The News
    • 07 January 2010
    Chinois au Cameroun : une incompréhension foncière
    Reste une inconnue : le riz produit sur ces 10 000 ha restera-t-il au Cameroun ou sera-t-il massivement exporté vers la Chine comme le craignaient au départ les gens sur place ?
    • Le Messager
    • 06 January 2010
    The scramble for land in Ethiopia
    Ginbot 7 wants to send an unequivocal message to the land grabbers that any land deal that has not been agreed to by the Ethiopian people will not be honored by future elected governments.
    • Ethiopian Review
    • 05 January 2010

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