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Investors see growing fields of opportunity across Africa
- NZ Herald
- 23 July 2009
The Confederation of Indian Industry disagrees with critics of India's foreign landgrabbing for agriculural production
Worry over 'land-grabbing colonialism'
- The Nation
- 23 July 2009
Thai exporters are concerned about the "land-grabbing colonialism" strategy being used by developed nations such as South Korea to reap benefits from agricultural goods grown in a second country and exported to other nations.
L'Afrique, dernier Far West
- Jeune Afrique
- 22 July 2009
Professeur de géographie politique et du développement à l’université Bordeaux-III et spécialiste des questions foncières en Afrique, Christian Bouquet nous livre sa réflexion sur l’évolution de ce phénomène inquiétant.
Uruguay farm visit (with CII)
- YouTube
- 22 July 2009
Visit to a 2000 hectare farm in Uruguay on July 4, 2009 with Vinod Surana, CEO of Surana and Surana and leader of CII delegation from India visiting Argentina and Uruguay on June 29 - July 3, 2009
Corporate farming to produce unemployment
- The Nation
- 22 July 2009
Agricultural experts, civil society activists, peasants and politicians condemn the PPP-led coalition government which has given nod to lease out 6m acres of Pakistani land to Gulf-based multinationals.
L'Afrique n'écoute pas l'Afrique
- Le Soleil
- 22 July 2009
La récente préoccupation du G8 sur la nécessité d'observer des règles sur les achats de terres en Afrique, est à saluer. Mais force est de constater que cela a été dit et rappelé plusieurs fois par des experts africains et du Nord, ecrit le Directeur général de l'ADRAO
Kenya: Agricultural land laws should be reviewed urgently
- Business Daily
- 21 July 2009
Questions persist as to whether the Government ought to tighten its control over the ownership of agricultural land, particularly by non-Kenyans.
Ukrainian black earth: global battle for strategic resource
- The Day
- 21 July 2009
There may emerge a situation when Ukrainians will be starving in spite of having the most fertile black earth.
Agriculture Outsourcing: South America/Latin America farmland investing
- YouTube
- 21 July 2009
Corporate pitch from Uruguay-based private equity firm Allied Venture for Indian investors to go into outsourced agriculture in Latin America
Agriculture Outsourcing: South America/Latin America farmland investing
- YouTube
- 21 July 2009
Allied Venture promo video for Indian investors
Disciplining large-scale land acquisitions or leases
- UN SR on Right to Food
- 21 July 2009
A multilateral framework would not only improve the protection of the human rights of the local population concerned; it could also avoid beggar-thy-neighbour policies, with countries competing against each other for foreign direct investment and thus lowering the requirements imposed on foreign investors.
What do we get from land deal?
- Philippine Star
- 20 July 2009
A South Korean provincial government has leased a major plot of farmland in Mindoro to grow corn