Libye: Des terres pour les Sud-Africains
    La Libye cherche à s’assurer des terres agricoles à l'étranger pour accroître son autonomie alimentaire, ce qui ne l'empêche pas de louer ses propres terres à d'autres pays !
    • Maghreb Confidentiel
    • 09 October 2009
    Newsline: The Saudi factor
    Special issue on the Pakistani government's plans to dole out domestic farmlands to the Gulf countries on 99-year lease for corporate farming.
    • Newsline
    • 09 October 2009
    Corporate farming…A wise development strategy or land grab?
    Critics say that by seeking to solve their food shortage problem through foreign farmland acquisitions, the rich emerging economies may succeed in producing enough quantity for their populations but may in the long-term be exporting their food insecurity to other nations.
    • Desertification
    • 08 October 2009
    The great land grab: Rush for world's farmland threatens food security for the poor
    A new report from the Oakland Institute lays bare the insidious role played by international financial institutions like the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank and Foreign Investment Advisory Service, as well as rich nations, in promoting and facilitating this widespread land reappropriation--all in the name of promoting food security through foreign investment in agriculture.
    • Oakland Institute
    • 08 October 2009
    Gov't ‘about to lose Sudan investment’
    The Sudanese government will take back a plot of land allocated for a Jordanian agricultural megaproject if the government does not implement the project within two weeks
    • Jordan Times
    • 08 October 2009
    Kuwait firm eyes farmland in Southeast Asia
    "Our proposition to the governments is that we can help them develop the infrastructure and develop the farmland and we will then take a share of the produce," says KCIC
    • Reuters
    • 07 October 2009
    K S Oils acquires more land in Indonesia
    K S Oils, one of India’s leading integrated edible oil food companies Wednesday announced further acquisition of 53,000 acres of land for palm oil plantations in Indonesia. This brings the company’s land bank in Indonesia to 1,38,000 acres [56,000 ha], the largest owned by any Indian company.
    • Commodity Online
    • 07 October 2009
    Le contrat d’agribusiness de VARUN doit être annulé
    Le contrat de Varun est fortement défavorable aux paysans malgaches. Suspendu depuis plusieurs mois par le pouvoir central, il doit d’urgence être annulé.
    • Collectif pour la Défense des Terres Malgaches
    • 07 October 2009
    Vita Grain says priority is to support stock-piling of rice in Singapore
    Vita Grain Group, which is backed by US $60 million of funding, owns more than 20 different strains of hybrid rice seeds. Vita Grain is looking for funding to expand its seed production beyond Africa to Asia, the US and South America. The company is also setting up a rice mill in Mauritius and is in talks with partners in Botswana, Madagascar and Mozambique to develop rice production units.
    • Business Times
    • 06 October 2009
    Españoles que cultivan fuera
    Empresas alimentarias españolas apuestan por producir en el exterior para abastecer el mercado nacional y los de terceros países
    • El País
    • 06 October 2009
    Japan ready to fund agriculture activities in Merauke
    Several companies like Mitsubishi Corporation are interested in promoting Merauke as a new rice barn in Asia.
    • Tempo Interactive
    • 05 October 2009
    Funds: Eastern Europe the focus for "Green Revolution II" investors
    It isn't often you sit down with a fund manager and begin the interview by discussing their new film.
    • Business New Europe
    • 05 October 2009
    This asset is like gold, only better
    Almost half the farmland bought in Britain last year was snapped up by banks and funds.
    • Stockhouse
    • 04 October 2009
    Zardari regime grappling with its credibility
    The Zardari government is on trial with respects to three developments, of which the possible lease of land to Saudi Arabia and some other Arab countries, because they are of historical significance for Pakistan.
    • Dawn
    • 04 October 2009
    Grabbing land
    A significant percentage of the manual labour force on arable land in Pakistan is female. If we lease this land to Saudi Arabia -- a country where women are not allowed to drive cars, vote, work in public places with a namehram -- to do with as it pleases -- will there still, across the proposed acreage reportedly twice the size of Hong Kong, be room for them?
    • The News
    • 04 October 2009

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