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Foreign land deals: global land grabbing?
- IBON
- 16 June 2011
The Philippines is among the leading target countries for land deals despite provisions in the Constitution barring foreigners from owning land.
An Open Letter to the People of India: a Day Light Robbery in Ethiopia
- SMNE
- 15 June 2011
Letter asks Indias to join with Ethiopians and other Africans in confronting the hundreds of Indian companies who are now at the forefront of colluding with African dictators in robbing the people of their land, resources, lives and future
Kingdom to double wheat reserves
- Reuters
- 15 June 2011
Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Agriculture calls Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine “probable countries of investment” in farmland and confirms Kingdom's continued interest in farmland in south Sudan.
Why investing in international farmland can be perilous
- Business Insider
- 15 June 2011
Farmland has been placed into the spotlight by "guru investors," wealth management funds, growing mega agri-industries, wealthy individuals, and food insecure nations.
Study reveals alarming facts about plantation of Addax Bioenergy in Sierra Leone
- Bread for all
- 15 June 2011
The Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food today published the Independent Study report on the sugarcane project of the Geneva based firm Addax Bioenergy.
Sierra Leone: un projet d'agrocarburant de l'entreprise suisse Addax Bioenergy renferme un grand potentiel… de conflit.
- PPP
- 15 June 2011
Le Réseau Sierra-léonais pour le Droit à l'Alimentation a publié aujourd'hui une étude indépendante sur la location à long terme de vastes surfaces agricoles par Addax Bioenergy.
Argentina: Primera batalla legislativa por la tierra
- Página 12
- 15 June 2011
En la Comisión de Legislación General, y con el faltazo de gran parte de la oposición, el titular de Agricultura expuso el proyecto para limitar la compra de tierras por parte de extranjeros. Apunta a limitar la concentración.
Swiss Commodities Trader Expands Into Ethanol in Africa
- New York Times
- 15 June 2011
Jean Claude Gandur’s ethanol project in Sierra Leone comes at a sensitive time, with concerns being raised of exploitation of developing countries for resources.
Investments that will grow
- The Australian
- 15 June 2011
The global financial crisis may have hit tax-effective agribusiness schemes hard, but the prospects of the small group of companies that survived are anything but gloomy. "We're actually tapping into the new GFC, which is the global food crisis," says Wayne Overall, executive director of agribusiness managed investment scheme operator Almond Investors Limited
La riziculture pourrait connaitre un boom en Afrique
- AFP
- 14 June 2011
"Il se pourrait que d'ici 25 ans l'Inde ou la Chine tirent des ressources significatives de leurs implantations en Afrique subsaharienne", prévoit Robert Zeigler, directeur général de l'Institut international de recherche sur le riz (IRRI).
Iowan Rastetter leads Tanzanian ag project
- Des Moines Register
- 14 June 2011
Iowa agribusiness investor Bruce Rastetter is leading a project to turn as much as 800,000 acres [324,000 hectares] of land in the east African country of Tanzania into a massive grain-and-livestock operation.
Djigo Moussa, à propos de la mise a disposition de terres au profit d’investisseurs saoudiens : « C’est la mort programmée de l’élevage local… »
- Quotidien de Nouakchott
- 14 June 2011
Entretien avec Djigo Moussa, président du comité de suivi des affaires foncières, une structure mise en place par les représentants de 60 villages de la Moughata’a de Boghé pour produire un document par lequel, les populations feront valoir leurs droits sur les terres du Brakna mises à disposition d’investisseurs saoudiens par les autorités mauritaniennes.
Stop demonising foreign investors in agriculture, they’re not grabbing land
- Daily Nation
- 14 June 2011
It is true that many of the land deals are not structured to benefit local communities but it is wrong to claim that such investments will only help promote food exports at the expense of local needs, says Calestous Juma.
Swedes want Aussie farms
- Stock & Land
- 14 June 2011
The Swedish National Pension Fund is teaming up with US institutional investor TIAA-CREF to buy farmland in Australia.
Presentaciones foro "Dinámica mundial de acaparamiento de tierras: La extranjerización de la propiedad”
- Grupo Semillas
- 14 June 2011
El 9 y 10 de junio pasados, se llevó a cabo en las ciudades de Bogotá y Cali, el foro Dinámica mundial de acaparamiento de tierras: La extranjerización de la propiedad, con la participación de expertos nacionales e internacionales.