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Land grab: Africa at the mercy of investors abroad
- Asahi Shimbun
- 27 September 2010
The fact is, Madagascar agriculture must rely on foreign capital, despite the risk of problems from farmland deals, according to Masanobu Furuya of the Asahi Shimbum
Food prices rise as Asia projects stall
- Wall St Journal
- 26 September 2010
Some projects aimed at increasing food production in Asia have been dropped or delayed amid the financial crisis, notes a new report by IRRI and the Asia Society.
Brasil: Os riscos que o País corre se não limitar a possibilidade de aquisição de suas terras por estrangeiros
- UNISINOS
- 25 September 2010
Jacques Tavora Alfonsin, advogado do MST e procurador aposentado do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, comenta parecer da Advocacia Geral da União, aprovado pela Presidência da República e publicado dia 23 de agosto passado, sobre as bases legais que autorizam a União a limitar o poder de adquirir terra, no Brasil.
Argentina: ¿Soja en Río Negro? Aluvión de capitales chinos para riego
- Impulso Baires
- 25 September 2010
Gobierno de una de las provincias de la Patagonia Argentina entrega en concesión 200.000 hectareas para la seguridad alimentaria de China, con el aval del gobierno nacional y un crédito del BID
Accaparement des terres et droit à l'alimentation
- TERRA
- 24 September 2010
"On a même vendu nos cimetières aux Chinois", s'insurge Faliry Boly, président de la plate-forme des producteurs de riz du Mali.
Israel mulls leasing land in Russia
- Xinhua
- 24 September 2010
Israel has asked Russia's republic of Tatarstan to lease 1.5 million hectares of its land, said a visiting Israeli businessman on Friday.
Touche pas à ma terre, c'est ma vie
- COPAGEN
- 24 September 2010
La meilleure réponse aux conséquences graves de l’accaparement des terres, selon COPAGEN, est de faire en sorte que les paysannes et paysans petits producteurs trouvent plus rentable d’exploiter leurs terres que de les céder massivement pour tenter de survivre.
Perampasan Tanah: Sebab, Bentuk dan Akibatnya bagi Kaum Tani
- AGRA
- 24 September 2010
AGRA paper on land grabbing in Indonesia, during the period 2004-2010, for food and agrofuels production (in Bahasa Indonesia only).
Would Cecil Rhodes have signed a code of conduct?
- Oxfam
- 24 September 2010
Over the past year, I have been collecting material on biofuels, land rights in Africa, and global land grabbing. Reading through this material worries me greatly, for it carries very strong echoes of Cecil Rhodes and his merry men.
Karuturi set to raise $100 mn
- Business Standard
- 24 September 2010
India's Karuturi plans to emerge as a leading player in agriculture in the African continent, with revenues from agriculture trumping revenues from floriculture in two years.
Fonterra eyes more farms in China
- NZ Herald
- 24 September 2010
"What China needs is safe, healthy Chinese milk and it starts all the way up stream with farming," Fonterra's CEO Andrew Ferrier said.
¿Pero qué Objetivos del Milenio?
- El País
- 23 September 2010
El BM afirmó que la investigación sería sobre 30 países, pero únicamente fue sobre 14. Parece que las empresas se negaron a compartir información acerca de sus inversiones en tierras de cultivo.
The mob action in Tema
- Ghana Web
- 23 September 2010
Wilmar claim to be investing in project that will employ 500 people with investment capital of $40 million. Yet the land in question supports the entire fishing industry in Tema.
LVC and FIAN ask governments to ban land grabbing
- Via Camepsina
- 23 September 2010
The agenda of the upcoming session of the FAO Committee on World Food Security, on 11-14 October 2010, includes a policy roundtable on land tenure and international investment in agriculture.
Pressions sur les terres. Devenir des agricultures paysannes
- CETRI
- 23 September 2010
Cet ouvrage a été produit dans le cadre d’une collaboration d’Entraide et Fraternité, de la Commission Justice et Paix et du CETRI sur cette problématique du devenir des agricultures paysannes dans un contexte de pressions accrues sur les terres.