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Libya could provide 60,000 hectares of field for Turkish investors
- Tripoli Post
- 04 January 2011
Libyan officials said that they could allocate 60,000 hectares of field for Turkish investors for production of wheat and corn.
More talks on the land grab
- Ethiomedia
- 04 January 2011
In Ethiopia, resentments over land grab have already started claiming lives. The TPLF regime has already killed 10 protesting ethnic Anuak farmers and has sent thousands more to concentration camps.
Alternative investing: Digging into farmland
- CNBC
- 03 January 2011
Finding suitable farmland investment vehicles is not as easy as one might think.
Cacería de tierras fértiles
- La Voz del Interior
- 03 January 2011
El mundo asiste a una vertiginosa carrera de compra de tierras fértiles, sobre todo en África y Sudamérica.
Georgia calls on SA farmers for help
- Business Day
- 31 December 2010
The government of Georgia is offering state-owned farmland, for purchase, to farmer members of the Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU) in South Africa
The changing face of agricultural business
- Farm Weekly
- 30 December 2010
"We want to make agriculture sexy," says the head of Macquaraie's Retail Agribuiness operation.
Mauritanie : hold-up sur les terres des populations du Sud
- Yahya Kane
- 30 December 2010
Ce hold-up avait été révélé au grand public en juillet 2010 par Eveil Hebdo qui mettait en cause le président Ould Aziz sur le point de signer un décret qui pourrait octroyait 50 000 ha de terrain à la société saoudienne Tabouk-Eziraiya dans la commune de Boghé.
Extranjerización de la tierra en Argentina
- Diario Actualidad
- 29 December 2010
Argentina con un potencial de producción aun no explorado constituye una gran base de interés por sus producciones para países asiáticos
Accaparement des terres cultivables de la vallée: Silence coupable
- Le Calame
- 29 December 2010
Le processus d’expropriation des terres de la vallée du fleuve Sénégal, au profit des hommes d’affaires nationaux ou des pétrodollars, se poursuit, dans la plus totale opacité.
The great land grab in Mali
- The Hindu
- 28 December 2010
Local farmers risk losing their land and their livelihood, but perhaps the greatest risk of the Malibya project in Mali is the loss of water.
Argentina: Costa y Línea Sur, Reclaman legislación sobre tierras
- Río Negro
- 28 December 2010
La legisladora del ARI, Magdalena Odarda, manifestó sus coincidencias con los posicionamientos de la Pastoral Social de la Patagonia
Des ONG dénoncent des expropriations foncières dans le sud de la Mauritanie
- PANA
- 27 December 2010
Les ONG n'ont pas révélé l'identité des multinationales de l'agro-busness bénéficiaires des attributions foncières en question; toutefois certaines sources parlent de sociétés saoudiennes, soudanaises et même américaines,
Land: The new international strategic asset. How Africa is losing big time
- Modern Ghana
- 27 December 2010
The seizing of the poor farmers' land is destroying their only hope of survival on earth.
Bangladesh wants rice and land concessions
- Phnom Penh Post
- 27 December 2010
Bangladesh wants to invest in growing rice in Cambodia for future exports back to Bangladesh and has requested long-term land leases for up to 99 years, such as Cambodia has already granted to other countries.
Revisiting the issue of “land grabbing”
- Capital Ethiopia
- 27 December 2010
Affected rural poor communities and their allies are not likely to simply accept the land grabbing process in the way the World Bank and its supporters might suppose.