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Speech to the Middle East Business Council
- NZ Government
- 01 Mar 2012
IP-rich New Zealand is a logical partner for resource-rich Gulf states as a producer of food in places like Africa, says New Zealand's Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Dwindling resources trigger global land rush
- IPS
- 01 Mar 2012
A global scramble for land and mineral resources fuelled by billions of investment dollars is threatening the last remaining wilderness and critical ecosystems, destroying communities and contaminating huge volumes of fresh water.
PNG landowners get negligible rent for SABL land leases: expert
- Radio Australia
- 01 Mar 2012
Papua New Guinea landowners are getting very little in the way of rent for vast tracts of land that have been leased out under controversial leases. Interview with Colin Filer.
How much foreign investment is too much?
- ABC
- 01 Mar 2012
Senator Bill Heffernan and the managing director of the Australian Agricultural Company David Farley join The Business to discuss overseas investment in Australia.
Liberia: The plantation blues
- AllAfrica
- 29 February 2012
Alfred Quayjandi accuses both the Liberian government and Sime Darby of presenting a confused and angry population with a fait accompli, failing to consult local communities and bypassing or snubbing the local administration and traditional chiefs.
Argentina: se reglamentó la Ley de tierras
- Página 12
- 29 February 2012
La norma limita la venta a extranjeros al 15 por ciento del territorio nacional y obliga a las provincias a informar en los próximos 60 días la cantidad de tierras en manos de personas físicas o jurídicas extranjeras.
Ethiopia announces the opening of a new honorary consulate in Bangalore
- Business Wire
- 29 February 2012
"Galaxy of diplomats" in attendance for the inauguration of Mr Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi, Managing Director of Karuturi Global Ltd, as an Honorary Consul of Ethiopia in Bangalore.
Africa for sale: The land grab landmine
- Peace & Conflict Monitor
- 29 February 2012
The scariest aspect of this unfolding phenomenon is that despite the foreseeable terrible consequences, the appetite among the rich countries to own a piece of this developing-country fertile land continues to grow, turning to an ugly competition.
Ethiopia: A battle for land and water
- PBS
- 28 February 2012
A controversial resettlement program in Ethiopia is the latest battleground in the global race to secure prized farmland and water. Correspondent Cassandra Herrman reports as part of the Food for 9 Billion series, a NewsHour partnership with the Center for Investigative Reporting, Homelands Productions and Marketplace.
Land rush: Speculators stake claim to Prairie farmland
- Briarpatch
- 28 February 2012
Debates around farmland acquisition have focused mostly on how the phenomenon is playing out in the Global South. Much less attention has been paid to large-scale acquisitions of farmland in wealthier countries like Canada.
Manifesto das Organizações Sociais do Campo
- CIMI
- 28 February 2012
"O Agronegócio representa um pacto de poder das classes sociais hegemônicas, com forte apoio do Estado Brasileiro, pautado na financeirização e na acumulação de capital, na mercantilização dos bens da natureza, gerando concentração e estrangeirização da terra"
Trigon eyes top spot in European dairy production
- Agrimoney
- 28 February 2012
Trigon Agri unveiled plans to expand in Russia through the acquisition of a "large scale" farm operator - and to become Europe's top dairy producer - as it unveiled its first annual profit.
UK firm buys NT cattle land
- Stock & Land
- 28 February 2012
The 500,000-hectare station, located about 150 kilometres south-west of the Gulf of Carpentaria, is believed to have sold for about $33 million, and included about 28,000 head of mixed cattle in the contract.
Maori mount legal challenge to Crafar decision
- NZ Herald
- 28 February 2012
Central North Island Maori are seeking to challenge Shanghai Pengxin's purchase of the Crafar farms using the same Treaty of Waitangi clause in legislation the Maori Party has fought to retain for partially privatised state-owned assets.
Expert cautions on ‘land grab’ model
- Myanmar Times
- 27 February 2012
In Myanmar, the issue of land-grabbing has been raised by land rights groups urging changes to two land laws currently before parliament: the Farmland Bill and Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Land Management Bill.