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Gulf looks to science to turn desert to farmland
- Reuters
- 17 May 2010
Gulf nations hope science will turn desert areas into arable land to boost food security and avoid the risks inherent in buying farmland abroad.
Foreign-owned farms control over 6% of Czech farmland
- CTK
- 17 May 2010
Farms of foreign owners control more than 6 percent of the total Czech farmland area of 3.6 million hectares, weekly Euro says in its latest issue to be published on Monday, referring to data of the Czech Statistical Office
Saudi Arabia: A desert kingdom's quest for food security
- Zawya
- 17 May 2010
The process of buying up large swathes of farmland in foreign countries is politically sensitive, but "beggars can't be choosers" says a senior executive at a leading Middle Eastern food commodities trading firm
Cameroun: L’attribution des terres aux investisseurs étrangers divise
- Journal du Cameroun
- 17 May 2010
De nombreux paysans camerounais désapprouvent la politique gouvernementale visant l’octroi de vastes espaces cultivables à des investisseurs étrangers
San fight land grab in Namibian park
- IPS
- 15 May 2010
Demeter International got a 25-year lease for 10,000 ha of Bwabwata National Park, which it will start ploughing in October. Hundreds of families will lose access to the forest.
Groups sound alert over the World Bank's financing of oil palm plantations
- WRM
- 15 May 2010
Groups issue sign-on letter calling on the World Bank to stop funding oil palm plantations.
Virtual land grabs and climate change
- EU Reporter
- 14 May 2010
Expanding the acreage of organically farmed land to 20% would increase the EU's virtual land importation by 30%. And policies to achieve the EU’s 10% biofuel objective would also increase the rate of EU land-grabs.
Russia - Iranian farm investment
- meatinternational.com
- 14 May 2010
A group of Iranian businessmen is planning to invest up to $40 million in the construction of a livestock breeding complex and a feed plant in Russia's Chelyabinsk region by 2013
Cameroonians protest land sales to foreigners
- VoA
- 13 May 2010
Rural people in several parts of Cameroon are protesting a government policy that allows the government to sell or lease vast parcels of arable land to foreign investors.
Agro Génération : amélioration des rendements de + 39 %
- ActuNews
- 13 May 2010
AgroGeneration, groupe agricole spécialisé dans la production de céréales et d’oléagineux en Ukraine, a produit 55 000 tonnes de céréales (blé, maïs, orge, colza, tournesol) en 2009, contre 18 000 tonnes un an plus tôt.
Donors open the door for land grab in PNG
- GRAIN
- 13 May 2010
Foreign donors are promoting land registration in Papua New Guinea to facilitate a farmland grab, under the guise of agricultural development.
Saudis keen to work with Malaysia on food security programme
- Bernama
- 13 May 2010
Immediate projects to be promoted under Saudi Arabia's Private Investment Fund might concern livestock production in the East Coast Economic Region, according to former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Terres agricoles: une menace chinoise exagérée, dit Desjardins
- Le Soleil
- 12 May 2010
Les craintes soulevées par la possible vente massive de terres agricoles du Québec à des intérêts chinois sont exagérées selon une étude du Mouvement Desjardins.
Land grabbing: is the EU the largest net importer of agricultural produce and 'virtual' land?
- Industry Today
- 12 May 2010
A new report argues that the EU has become the world's largest net importer of agricultural produce, and therefore the largest user of agricultural land that is not its own.
Call for papers: International academic conference on “Global land grabbing”
- IDS
- 12 May 2010
The Journal of Peasant Studies, in collaboration with the Land Deal Politics Initiative, is organizing an international academic workshop on ‘Global Land Grabbing’ to be held on 6-8 April 2011 at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.