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US firm to invest in agriculture projects in Angola, Malawi
- 01 May 2010
US-based Gaiacor International has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with MITC Investments to manage and operate large farming operations in Angola.
Ethiopia: Ask WEF on Africa about land grabs in Oromia and other states
- Gadaa.com
- 01 May 2010
Question - via video - to the 2010 World Economic Forum on Africa in Dar es Salaam on land grabbing in Ethiopia
Turning African farmland over to big business: The US’s Millennium Challenge Corporation
- GRAIN
- 30 April 2010
MCC is playing a key role in commodifying Africa’s farmlands
Globalisation and the foreignisation of space: seven processes driving the current global land grab
- Journal of Peasant Studies
- 30 April 2010
'Codes of conduct’ as proposed by several quarters in the context of global land grab are unlikely to work in favour of the poor.
Le Millennium Challenge Corporation américain : l’Afrique livrée au big business
- GRAIN
- 30 April 2010
Le MCC joue un role clé dans la marchandisation des terres rurales africaines
Corn and meat offer 'perfect' investment opportunity, says agri specialist
- CityWire
- 30 April 2010
‘In order to feed a growing population with an increasing standard of living, the price of water and food must continue to rise."
Morocco to lease 30,000 hectares of farms per year
- Reuters
- 30 April 2010
Morocco plans to lease 30,000 ha of farmland per year to improve yields, satisfy growing national demand and boost export sales, its agriculture minister said on Thursday.
Saudia Arabia eyes US for ag investing, contracts
- Reuters
- 30 April 2010
Saudi Arabian investors are looking to expand their agricultural investments in the United States to secure long-term food supply because of water shortages in the desert kingdom, Saudi officials said on Thursday.
Summit urges modernisation, not westernisation, of land sector
- World Bank
- 30 April 2010
Radical economic, structural and social change may be spawned by growing demand for land in certain countries, and so may love affairs, says the World Bank.
El Banco Mundial y el acaparamiento de tierras
- Tercera Información
- 29 April 2010
Esta advertencia se hizo plausible cuando el Banco Mundial lanzó la noticia en un encuentro en Washington el 26 y 27 de abril. Durante el acto, anunció sus compromisos voluntarios para proteger a largo plazo los derechos, los modos de vida y los recursos de estos continentes durante los procesos de adquisición de tierras por parte de inversores extranjeros.
We will not stand for the grab for our land!
- ABN
- 29 April 2010
African civil society claims that the voluntary guidelines will do nothing to prevent the continued threat to food security, forests, and the rights of African rural and indigenous communities to live on their land and feed themselves.
Food and water drive Africa land grab
- UPI
- 29 April 2010
As African leaders, many out to line their own pockets, sign away their people's land to foreigners, the continent's people face not having enough food to eat.
WB’s seven principles are seven deadly sins of global landgrabbing and against farmers’ interests
- Asian Peasant Coalition
- 29 April 2010
The Asian Peasant Coalition and Peasant Movement of the Philippines slam World Bank’s “seven principles”.
Agribusiness opportunities in South America
- IndusLatin
- 29 April 2010
Video of a speech by Dave Ramaswamy of Allied Venture about the opportunities for India to outsource its agriculture to Latin America.
Senator seeks investment from Qatar in Australia
- Gulf Times
- 29 April 2010
Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund agricultural company launched Hassad Australia last year, aimed at ensuring that livestock and grain needs for Qatar, from Australian farmland, are met.