• Argentina, Río Negro: Cuentos Chinos
    • Piuke
    • 07 October 2010

    La intención de firmar un acuerdo con China involucra la inversión extranjera en infraestructura de riego de 200.000 hectáreas, decisión que implica la apropiación de territorio por parte de una nación, China.

  • Land grabbing and nutrition: Challenges for global governance
    • RTFN-Watch
    • 07 October 2010

    The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch shows how land grabbing aggravates hunger in Africa, Asia and Latin America by leading to eviction of peasant communities from their main source of livelihood.

  • Land grabs in Africa
    • ABN
    • 07 October 2010

    Joining ABN from Lagos on the implications of the World Bank report's findings is Dennis Aliga, CEO of DMA Capital Group.

  • US university buys $28m dairy farm
    • NZ Herald
    • 07 October 2010

    An American university is buying a New Zealand dairy farm for more than $28 million as officials and would-be overseas investors get ready for new rules.

  • Harvard University to buy Otago farmland
    • Radio New Zealand
    • 07 October 2010

    New Zealand's Federated Farmers is welcoming the purchase of a big slice of farmland in central Otago by Harvard University for $34.1 million.

  • Overseas buyers a blessing to struggling farms
    • NZ Herald
    • 07 October 2010

    Richard Fyers, a commercial lawyer with the NZ China Trade Association, writes about the fuss made over land sales to foreigners.

  • Sauditas buscam terras no Brasil
    • ANBA
    • 06 October 2010

    A afirmação é do secretário-executivo do Ministério da Agricultura brasileiro, Gerardo Fontelles.

  • Projet Daewoo: Les raisons de l’abandon sont multiples
    • La Gazette
    • 06 October 2010

    Les expériences de Daewoo et de Varun présentent les ingrédients d’une implantation agro-industrielle condamnée à l’échec. Ces éléments d’une stratégie « perdant-perdant » peuvent se résumer en trois points.

  • 2nd Global Large Scale Farm Forum in Siem Reap, Cambodia
    • PR Web
    • 06 October 2010

    The key highlights of the forum will focus on the rising pros­pects in the global agricultural busi­ness, land utilisation and acquisition policies.

  • Gobierno busca frenar compra de tierras por extranjeros
    • El Espectador
    • 06 October 2010

    El presidente José Mujica encargó a tres senadores del Frente Amplio la elaboración de un proyecto de ley tendiente a frenar la extranjerización de la tierra en Uruguay.

  • Ethiopian case study illustrates shortcomings of “land grab” debate
    • The New Security Beat
    • 06 October 2010

    The two months we spent in the Amhara and Oromia regions of Ethiopia, surveying smallholders and profiling large-scale commercial farms, left us with a different impression.

  • Papua in Merauke reject Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate
    • Indigenous Peoples Issues
    • 06 October 2010

    We support the position adopted by the Ha Nim indigenous people and their sympathisers who reject the MIFEE project on their land because it poses a threat to the right to life of the local communities and urge the Indonesian state – SBY – to repeal the MoU about MIFEE.

  • Join Spires campaign against Land Grabbing!
    • Spire
    • 06 October 2010

    Please support our demands that the Norwegian Government stops import of commodities from grabbed land, takes initiativ to international cooperation to control investment deals in the agricultural sector, and make sure that Norwegian investments never happens at the expence of peoples food security or participation.

  • US investors plough cash into farmland
    • BBC
    • 05 October 2010

    Investment managers in the US report rising interest from pension schemes and retail investors in funds that buy and run farmland in developed countries.

  • Invasion foncière : L’Afrique expropriée de ses terres
    • Quotidien Mutations
    • 05 October 2010

    50 ans après les indépendances, l’Occident et les pays émergents font main basse sur le sol et le sous-sol du continent: l’on estime à des millions d’hectares, les superficies déjà acquises dans plusieurs pays. L’Union africaine en ordre de bataille pour faire barrage.

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