Meeting the challenges of future food security
    Bangladeshi authorities have started exploring new options to ensure the country's food security such as taking lease of vast areas of fallow agricultural land in the neighbouring Myanmar and in some African states.
    • Financial Express
    • 20 December 2010
    New Great Trek ‘is no threat to SA’s food supply’
    South African farmers moving to neighbouring African states are not putting SA’s food security under threat, says Willie du Plessis, a director of agricultural banking at Standard Bank.
    • Business Day
    • 20 December 2010
    Gulf firms wary of investing in southern Sudan
    Political uncertainty and fear of conflict will deter several Gulf firms from investing in southern Sudan as it prepares for a referendum next month that will likely lead to the creation of the world's newest nation.
    • Reuters
    • 20 December 2010
    Outsourced African farming threatens to alienate locals
    Not since Belgium's King Leopold turned the Congo into his personal market-garden has so much land been allocated to offshore nations.
    • The National
    • 20 December 2010
    Congo: un agro-industriel malaisien va investir 300 millions de dollars
    Une société malaisienne prendra contrôle de 470.000 hectares au Congo, sous forme de concession, pour la production des palmiers à l'huile, a annoncé samedi le ministre de l’agriculture, Rigobert Maboundou.
    • AFP
    • 20 December 2010
    Egypt’s takeover of Sudan’s Gezira scheme
    News of the deal has aroused very vehement protest from the Sudanese Farmer’s Union and the tenants in the Gezira Scheme.
    • Sudan Tribune
    • 19 December 2010
    Río Negro, Argentina: Convenio de entrega
    El referido acuerdo dado a conocer a través del pedido del Concejo Deliberante de Viedma resume un vergonzoso "Compendio de Instrucciones" para la entrega de un territiorio argentino, para el dominio de un país extranjero.
    • Foro Permanente por una Vida Digna
    • 18 December 2010
    Fears growing over land grabs
    It may appear contradictory for the Japanese government to support aggressive investment in overseas land while seeking ways to restrict purchases by foreign interests at home.
    • Japan Times
    • 18 December 2010
    Atama plantation entend investir dans l'agro-industrie
    La société Atama plantation de la Malaisie entend investir plus de 150 millions de Franc CFA pour la mise en œuvre des complexes agro-industriels de palme à huile sur une superficie totale de 169 000 ha au Congo.
    • JTV-Congo
    • 17 December 2010
    La política del acaparamiento mundial de tierras
    Argüimos que la dinámica política en torno a la tierra pone en creciente evidencia lo inapropiado del ‘conjunto de herramientas’ para la ‘gobernanza de la tierra’ que promueven de forma implacable las corrientes preponderantes.
    • TNI
    • 16 December 2010
    Foreign investment in Australian farm land: domestic scrutiny is on the horizon
    The shift of power in Australia’s Federal Parliament, which is now largely in the hands of a few independents representing rural and regional constituencies, combined with the increasingly vocal calls for scrutiny of foreign investment has sent signals of a more protectionist stance for Australian agriculture.
    • Lexology
    • 16 December 2010
    Investors set to inject billions into agriculture
    In Kilombero District, Tanzania large swathes of land are being earmarked for large-scale rice production.
    • The Citizen
    • 16 December 2010
    « Il faut aller vers une réforme foncière concertée »
    L’Etat doit arriver à concilier la sécurisation des exploitations familiales et l’agro-business pour assurer une sécurité alimentaire au Sénégal, selon cheikh Omar Bâ
    • Sud Online
    • 16 December 2010
    Land grab fears for Ethiopian rural communities
    A controversial new farms policy has led to a number of arrests and the killings of 10 local farmers, say local activists.
    • BBC
    • 15 December 2010
    SA farmers set sights on Moz
    More South African farmers expect to receive land offers in Mozambique as they seek to expand across Africa amid uncertainty over land reform at home, an official from a mostly white farmers group said
    • Reuters
    • 13 December 2010

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