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Dubai World reportedly backing bid to buy New Zealand farms
- dpa
- 18 December 2009
Dubai World is reportedly trying to buy 30,000 ha of farms in New Zealand, ringing alarm bells there Friday.
Caution urged on farm sales
- Federated Farmers of New Zealand
- 18 December 2009
Federated Farmers is urging farmers to conduct due diligence after reports that a Maori trust, with reputed backing from Dubai World, has been contracted to buy 28 farms in Southland
Greens press govt on rumoured land grab
- TVNZ
- 18 December 2009
The Maori trust has contracted to buy nearly 30,000ha of dairy, sheep, beef and deer farms throughout Southland, but some sellers have raised queries ranging from delays confirming the sales contracts to deposits not being paid as expected.
NZ wide open to massive land grab
- Voxy
- 18 December 2009
New Zealand needs to tighten its rules around overseas investment as China and the Gulf States go on a world-wide shopping spree for prime land, said Green Party Co-Leader Dr Russel Norman.
Food security keeps its place at the table
- The National
- 17 December 2009
What do the Berlin Wall and the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) have in common?
Sudan looks to attract Middle Eastern investment in farmland
- Bloomberg
- 17 December 2009
“We are now looking very seriously into Sudan,” said Zouhair Eloudghiri, chief executive officer of Savola Foods Co., a unit of Saudi Arabia’s second-largest publicly traded food producer, Savola Al-Azizia United Co.
Food estate menjadikan petani Indonesia sebagai buruh di tanahnya sendiri
- Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI)
- 17 December 2009
Dalam hal ini, dapat dikatakan masa pengesahan “perampasan tanah” (land grabbing), ketika pengusaha besar lokal dan asing datang atas mandat pemerintah untuk bersaing dengan petani gurem.
Food estate makes Indonesian peasants laborers on their own land
- SPI
- 17 December 2009
The Indonesian Peasants’ Union (SPI) explains how the government's food estate plan benefits companies and threatens farmers.
France culture : Main basse sur les terres agricoles
- France Culture
- 17 December 2009
Main basse sur les terres agricoles : le cas de l'Afrique et le cas du Brésil.
Wikileaks: Qatar sharpening focus on food security and related technologies
- Wikileaks
- 16 December 2009
"Hassad [Food] has innovated by considering investments in overseas agribusinesses rather than only purchasing land in countries with questionable property rights, and where the indigenous population may not benefit from such purchases," writes the US embassy in Doha
Kazakhstan not to lease China farmland but will create joint agricultural manufacture
- Kazakhstan Today
- 15 December 2009
The head of state at the last session of the Council of Foreign Investors informed that China had requested to lease 1 million hectares of Kazakh farmland for cultivation of rape and soya. According to A. Evniev, "It is not a lease, it is a question of joint manufacture. In this case, it is soya and later it will be corn and rape."
Sudan eyes $6 bln-$7 bln investment in 2010
- Reuters
- 15 December 2009
Sudan's minister of state for investment said yesterday he expects investments of $6-7 billion in the country in 2010, adding that Africa's largest nation is seeing increased interest in its agricultural sector.
Wikileaks: Kuwaiti food security: Less than meets the eye...
- Wikileaks
- 15 December 2009
US embassy in Kuwait reports on discussions with Kuwaiti officials on acquiring farmland overseas for food security or profit
Est-il opportun ou non de louer des terres africaines à des fins agricoles à des étrangers ?
- Le faso.net
- 15 December 2009
Il n'y a pas de mal à louer nos terres en Afrique ? Ou stade suprême de l'aliénation du monde rural ?
Kazakhstan not to sell land to China - PM Karim Massimov
- Kazinform
- 14 December 2009
Kazakhstan will not "sell" land to China, Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov has announced