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Nation feeds Gulf's appetite for ownership
- SMH
- 01 August 2011
Hassad plans to spend $US350 million ($318 million) in Australia to secure food supplies for Qatar, which imports 95 per cent of its food.
Shut the gate: why cash-strapped landowners are selling the farm
- SMH
- 01 August 2011
Australians do realise the value of what is being sold, a land agent and rural property specialist said, "but their hands are tied because they can't raise the money".
Govt cautioned against giving foreigners large pieces of land
- The Guardian
- 01 August 2011
“This notion of saying that we have enough land is untrue, as the land we have now does not only belongs to us but also to our future generations,” Dr Damian Gabagambi of Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania says.
Latinoamerica: la tierra bajo asedio
- La Revista Agraria
- 31 July 2011
Latinoamerica ha estado ultimamente envuelta en problemas relacionados a las disputas por el control de la tierra entre elites y sectores vulnerables.
Green revolution or Green plunder?
- Guardian
- 31 July 2011
While Serengeti Advisers and their partners as well as the Tanzanian government thought theirs was a move to attract Foreign Direct Investment in commercial farming, to critics the deal is another land grabbing done by the pimps of globalization.
Campaña Paren, aquí vive gente
- VSF
- 31 July 2011
Capitales extranjeros se han apropiado de 50 millones de hectáreas de tierra en países del Sur, una gran mayoría en África. Eso equivale a la mitad de todas las tierras agrícolas de la Unión Europea.
Italian firm buys high country stations
- Otago Daily Times
- 31 July 2011
The Italian-based Reda Holding SpA owns 16,660 ha in the Waitaki Valley
Land tenure and international investments in agriculture
- HLPE
- 31 July 2011
The Committee on World Food Security at its meeting of October 2010 requested the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition to conduct a study on land tenure and international investments in agriculture and to present the findings at its next session in October 2011
Foreign investors sow deep roots in food bowl
- SMH
- 30 July 2011
Community agitation grows as farmers feel threatened in New South Wales
Famine : Pékin nie toute responsabilité
- Europe1/AFP
- 29 July 2011
Pékin a catégoriquement démenti vendredi avoir acheté des terres en Afrique, rejetant comme "infondées" les déclarations d'un responsable allemand selon lequel ces acquisitions présumées aggraveraient la famine qui frappe actuellement l'Ethiopie.
China rejects claims of Africa land buy-ups
- SAPA
- 29 July 2011
China rejected claims by a German official that it has been buying up land in the drought-ravaged Horn of Africa, saying the allegations are "completely unfounded" and have "ulterior motives".
Ethiopie: les locations de terres vont accroître les déplacements et la famine
- AFP
- 29 July 2011
Selon l'institut d'Oakland, environ 200.000 personnes pourraient être déplacées des 350.000 hectares loués dans le sud-ouest de l'Ethiopie depuis 2008.
Hambre y especulación
- CCS
- 29 July 2011
La escasez y el encarecimiento de los alimentos en el norte de África y en Oriente Próximo están agravando el hambre en el África subsahariana, donde han desembarcado los países árabes más ricos comprando tierras, a bajo precio, con el objetivo de cultivar lo necesario para dar de comer a sus propias poblaciones.
VII Encuentro Nacional de Organizaciones Campesinas,Indígenas y del Campo Popular
- 29 July 2011
"el convenio firmado por el gobierno provincial con el Grupo Al-Khorayef de Arabia Saudita, que otorgará 200 mil hectáreas de la zona de El Impenetrable para un proyecto agroalimentario con destino único a ese país, pone en riesgo a 60 mil personas"
Russia: Kellner’s promised land – and soil
- CzechPosition.com
- 29 July 2011
PPF entry into Russian farming via Rav Agro-Pro acquisition affirms Czech billionaire Petr Kellner’s confidence in his position there