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The emerging politics of food scarcity
- Treehugger
- 14 July 2010
Growing world food insecurity is ushering in a new geopolitics of food scarcity, one where competition for land and water is crossing national boundaries.
Harawira wants to outlaw foreign ownership
- NBR
- 14 July 2010
Maori party maverick MP Hone Harawira wants to ban the sale of New Zealand land to foreigners.
Film: Good Fortune
- Transient Pictures
- 13 July 2010
A behind-the-scenes account of the struggle of a local community in Kenya to protect their livelihoods, as US-owned Dominion Farms takes their lands.
New Zealand sleeps while land sells
- Frontline
- 13 July 2010
Most other countries have much tighter controls over foreign investment than New Zealand.
‘Land grabs’ in Namibia: Blessing or curse?
- The Namibian
- 13 July 2010
Namibia has not been spared in the proliferating acquisition of agricultural land in developing countries by multi-national agricultural corporations, popularly referred to as ‘land grabbing’.
Voices from the London International Oromo Workshop
- GRAIN
- 13 July 2010
Interviews about the current land grab in the Oromia and Gambela regions with some of the presenters at the London workshop.
It’s not such a long way to Africa
- Financial Express
- 12 July 2010
Jagjit Singh Hara, a farmer in Jalandhar, has been getting offers from Congo, Namibia and Nigeria to take land on lease and start cultivation.
Big push from foreign investors into PNG
- Islands Business
- 12 July 2010
"We have Indonesians and Malaysians coming in and saying we want 100,000 hectares to make PNG a rice producing country," says PNG’s Deputy Prime Minister Sir Puka Temu
Food shortages puts rural Asia at risk of international exploitation
- Radio Australia
- 12 July 2010
The Asian Development Bank is warning the region's rural sector could be expoited by international investors as concerns about global food and fuel security intensify.
Punjab farmers take up Ethiopian offer
- Sikh Sangat News
- 11 July 2010
A group of farmers from Punjab are planning to take 1 lakh hectare land on lease in the African nation of Ethiopia for cultivation.
Punjab’s African plot
- Indian Express
- 11 July 2010
In the last few months, the process seems to be speeding up with more and more Indian farmers checking out investments in Africa.
The GCC stocks the larder against future food crisis
- The National
- 11 July 2010
The GCC states are rapidly pursuing contracts for the purchase of land from eastern Africa to Vietnam to guarantee ample food supplies
Produire du riz ou investir dans la région de Gambela : la vidéo de propagande du gouvernement éthiopien
- ASO
- 10 July 2010
La voix de l’Anywaa Survival Organisation s’est élevée contre la politique de cession des terres adoptée par le gouvernement éthiopien.
Rice Production or Investment in Gambela region, Ethiopian government's propaganda video
- ASO
- 10 July 2010
Anywaa Survival Organisation's critique of the Ethiopian government's video presentation of rice land grab in the Gambela region.
For better or worse: foreign ownership
- NZ Herald
- 10 July 2010
At least 24 countries have been given approval to invest in New Zealand's agricultural sector, covering 154,855ha and a wide range of sectors from sheep farming to viticulture