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Slow progress on land-grabbing regulation
- IRIN
- 29 November 2010
As wealthy investors continue to buy up agricultural land in the developing world, stakeholders disagree over how to regulate such transactions.
Le Sénégal abrite le 5e édition du Forum Social Mondial
- Le Messager
- 28 November 2010
Du 6 au 11 Février 2011, le Sénégal accueille à Dakar la 5e édition internationale du Forum social mondial où les 100 000 participants sont invités à repenser librement le développement pour l’Afrique et à cogiter sur l’accaparement des terres en Afrique.
The new colonisers
- Deccan Herald
- 27 November 2010
Not surprisingly, the backlash from people in Africa against Indian farmland investments has begun.
Experts warn of risks in unbridled foreigners’ access to farmlands
- Business Insight
- 26 November 2010
Efforts must be made to ensure that foreign access to local agricultural lands follow strict guidelines
Du blé ukrainien pour Tripoli
- Africa Intelligence
- 25 November 2010
Le partenariat se ferait via l'ISD Corp. (ex-IUD, Industrial Union of Donbass), qui a déjà mis en œuvre un projet d'exploitation de 40 000 ha de terres agricoles par les Libyens en Ukraine.
Ethiopia: Land rent contractual agreement made between Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Hunan Dafengyuan PLC
- 25 November 2010
Contract covers the lease of 25,000 ha in the Regional State of Gambela for a period of 40 years, with option for renewal, for the production of sugar cane.
Ethiopia: Land rent contractual agreement made between Ministry of Agriculture and Saudi Star Agricultural Development PLC
- 25 November 2010
Covers 10,000 ha in Gambela Regional State for the production of rice, for an initial period of 50 years, with option for renewal.
Five African leaders to attend Riyadh investment meet
- Saudi Gazette
- 25 November 2010
The participants will explore emerging trends in agriculture in GCC states and Africa and debate on how to turn them into mutually beneficial business relations between the two sides.
Jenaan to plant $500m venture
- The National
- 25 November 2010
Abu Dhabi's Jenaan Investment owns and leases properties in Egypt and Sudan, as well as leasing land in Tanzania, Ethiopia and the US.
Inades-Formation : Déclaration sur l’accaparement des terres en Afrique
- Inades-Formation
- 25 November 2010
Les membres de la 13ème Assemblée Générale d’Inades-Formation International, réunis à Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire) du 22 au 25 novembre 2010, dénoncent avec vigueur l’odieuse pratique d’accaparement des terres.
Rejection of the MIFEE continues
- Tempo
- 25 November 2010
The Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) Program, a project which the government claims will be able to bring economic and social welfare for the Papua people, was rejected by the local people themselves.
Projeto prevê limites à compra de terra por estrangeiro
- Agência Estado
- 25 November 2010
Pelo texto aprovado, pessoas físicas e jurídicas estrangeiras, inclusive ONGs, não poderão arrendar ou comprar mais de 35 módulos fiscais em área contínua ou descontínua, observado o limite de até 2,5 mil hectares
Land deals of wealthy nations
- PRI
- 24 November 2010
Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Ruth Meinzen-Dick, a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, about the downside of land deals between countries.
Mali helps Libya with leased farmland
- PRI
- 24 November 2010
The farner’s union claims that the Malibya deal was done behind closed doors and then presented as a fait accompli, a deal that effectively hands over control of Mali’s main rice growing region to a foreign power.
La Libye va cultiver du blé sur les terres ukrainiennes
- RFI
- 24 November 2010
C'est un marché gagnant gagnant. La Libye compte cultiver du blé sur des terres ukrainiennes, en contrepartie, l'Ukraine se dit prête à aider Tripoli à développer des centrales nucléaires pour produire de l'électricité.