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The Indian land grab In Africa
- Goimonitor.com
- 21 December 2011
Joining the neo-colonial bandwagon, Indian companies are taking over agricultural land in African nations and exporting produced food at the cost of locals
Saudi dairy giant spends $83M on Argentina farms
- AP
- 21 December 2011
Saudi Arabia's largest dairy company said Wednesday it is buying Argentine farm operator Fondomonte S.A. for $83 million to secure access to a supply of animal feed.
« Ce n'est pas la démocratie pour laquelle nous nous sommes battus. » Entretien avec Ricado Jacobs, membre sud-africain de La Via Campesina
- GJEP
- 20 December 2011
Ricado était à Durban pour la Conférence des Parties de l'ONU et pour les activités de La Via Campesina organisées dans le cadre et en marge de la CdP en décembre 2011.
Ukraine extends ban on sale of farmland through January 2013
- Bloomberg
- 20 December 2011
Ukraine’s parliament extended a ban on the sale of farmland for a year to January 2013, saying that more time was needed to prepare the market for such sales.
Ethiopia: Gibe III - a dam too far?
- RNW
- 20 December 2011
Domestic and foreign investors are expected to grow sugar cane and other cash crops on a large-scale in the south of Ethiopia, an area known for its numerous indigenous tribes.
Understanding land investment deals in Africa
- Redeye
- 20 December 2011
Interview with Frederic Mousseau, policy director at the Oakland Institute in California.
Alpcot Agro to acquire Landkom International
- World-Grain.com
- 20 December 2011
With the merger, Alpcot Agro now controls well over 250,000 hectares of farmland in Russia and the Ukraine.
Investment conference on agricultural investment, food security begins at the Friendship Hall
- SUNA
- 20 December 2011
The conference reviewed the experience of Al-Rajihi International Group in Sudan and Al-Kharif Investment Company in the field of food production as well as the National Company for Agricultural Production in Sudan.
Uganda/Mubende: Hunger muss vor Gericht!
- FIAN
- 20 December 2011
Vor mehr als zehn Jahren wurden rund 400 Bauernfamilien in Mubende, Uganda, von ihrem Land und aus ihren Dörfern vertrieben. Sie mussten einer Kaffeeplantage weichen.
“This is not the democracy that we fought for:” An Interview with Ricado Jacobs, South African member of La Via Campesina
- GJEP
- 20 December 2011
"We’re dealing with a different enemy now: not with an enemy that emerges from the center to the periphery, as they used to say, but with an enemy that comes at us from all sides."
Securing the right to land
- ILEIA
- 20 December 2011
The latest issue of Farming Matters on a topic that is central to all small-scale farmers: land. Competition for land and power, and particularly the global increase of large scale land acquisitions, cause contestations about which land is rightfully owned and used by whom.
Karuturi sets sight on sugarcane crushing factory
- Oromiya Government
- 19 December 2011
In three years, 15,000ha will be covered with a sugarcane plantation in Gambela Province.
Argentina limits ownership by foreigners
- Press TV
- 19 December 2011
Argentina's congress has started to debate a bill that would regulate the purchase of farmland by foreigners in the Latin American country, Press TV reports.
Foreign investment in Aussie farmland on hold
- Property Observer
- 19 December 2011
Foreign investors have spent a record $12 billion buying up Australian farmland and agricultural businesses over the past year, but have put off investing a further $14 billion until the outcome of a Senate inquiry in March 2012, a new report by Ferrier Hodgson says.
Corso alla terra
- RAI3
- 18 December 2011
In un viaggio che va dagli uffici di Washington della Banca Mondiale fino a una rivolta contadina nel cuore dell'Africa Occidentale, la puntata di domenica 18 dicembre cerca di percorrere i fili intrecciati di finanza, politica e modelli di sviluppo economico che stanno muovendo una corsa globale all'accaparramento di terra.