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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.
Agria interest purely investment: chairman
- Otago Daily Times
- 26 December 2010
Chinese agribusiness companies Agria and New Hope Group launched a joint bid to take Agria's stake in New Zealand's PGGW to a controlling 50.01%, but Agria CEO Xie Tao said the move was not motivated to secure resources such as food.
IBON Land Grabbing Policy Brief 2010
- IBON
- 26 December 2010
Investors are taking advantage of cheap land resources from poorer countries whose populations are even more food insecure.
Terra agrícola de África é o novo alvo. Mas as colheitas são para outros
- Exclusivo i-The New York Times
- 25 December 2010
O solo cultivável é o novo objectivo na corrida aos recursos naturais. Mas são os países ricos a ganhar mais com isso
Argentina: La iglesia rionegrina planteó sus críticas al proyecto de sojización con China
- AN Bariloche
- 25 December 2010
Los Departamentos de Pastoral Social de las Diócesis de San Carlos de Bariloche expresaron su desacuerdo “con el alquiler de tierras públicas o privadas ni a grandes Pools de Siembra, sean argentinos o extranjeros, ni a provincias de un país como China”