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Sudanese Chinese partnership in agriculture
- Sudan Tribune
- 20 July 2009
As for the Chinese delegation and those of them who had the chance to state their minds one did not get the impression at all as regards purchase of land
Forum des Peuples Bandiagara 2009 : De la nécessité de promouvoir une politique agricole africaine
- Togo Presse Liberté
- 19 July 2009
« Il n’appartient pas au G8 d’élaborer des programmes et stratégies de développement pour l’Afrique. »
Kuwait eyes African investments
- Reuters
- 19 July 2009
Kuwait sees good investment opportunities in Africa and is in talks with countries there about securing food supplies, state news agency Kuna said citing the country's finance minister.
Like foreign bases
- PDI
- 19 July 2009
The Philippine government hopes it can sideline land reform by leasing lands to foreign governments and corporations.
Foreign push for African land brings domination danger
- AFP
- 19 July 2009
Nigerian economist Jonas Chianu argues that the exchange of land for development provides a way out for growth.
Overseas farming: New colonialism or new capitalism?
- Oman Economic Review
- 18 July 2009
While Oman has yet to indicate it will follow the course, it is in this make-or-break moment for a new, more stable capitalist system that the Gulf – and perhaps Oman in the future – are forging a rather novel form of global venture, that is, government-funded offshore farming.
Gulf states continue quest for foreign land
- Reuters
- 17 July 2009
"We have no choice but to continue leasing and buying land," said Abdullah Al Obaid, head of the strategy unit at the Ministry of Agriculture in Saudi Arabia.
Into Africa
- Financial Times
- 17 July 2009
While sovereign wealth funds have been buying up tracts of land, AgriTerra has been taking a different tack.
"Land grabbing" : l’accaparement de terres en Afrique se poursuit
- cDurable.info
- 17 July 2009
Ouyang Riping, PDG d’une société agricole chinoise, a une mission : transformer le Sénégal en grenier à sésame… pour la Chine ! Dakar lui cède 60 000 hectares pour cultiver et exporter le sésame vers Pékin. En échange, les chinois apprennent aux paysans sénégalais à obtenir deux récoltes de riz par an. Coopération originale ou marché de dupes ?
Saudi Arabia Agribusiness Report Q3 2009
- Companies and Markets
- 17 July 2009
2009 is the year characterised by Arab' 'land grabs', where developing countries have been targeted by the kingdom as having the potential to feed the swelling food demands of Saudi Arabia
Seminar on Commercial Pressures on Land - Utrecht, 8 July 2009
- ILC
- 16 July 2009
On 8 July 2009, almost a hundred development practitionners from all over the world convened in Utrecht to participate to the DPRN Expert Seminar “Commercial Pressures on Land: rethinking policies and practice for development”.
Opposition vs government’s leasing local farms to foreign companies gains ground
- Business Mirror
- 16 July 2009
A militant legislator has expressed alarm over what he described as escalating land-lease agreements by the Philippines with other countries