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ZDA, Chinese firm seal agro deal
- Times of Zambia
- 21 August 2010
Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) has signed an agreement with Yuan Longping High-Tech Agriculture Company of China for the development of an agriculture farm bloc.
Großflächige Landnahme für die Bundesregierung kein Thema
- Die Linke
- 20 August 2010
„Weltweit hungern mittlerweile über eine Milliarde Menschen – ein Grund dafür sind großflächige Landnahmen. Deshalb stellen diese für die Menschen in den armen Ländern dieser Welt eine große Bedrohung dar. Doch die Bunderegierung ist nicht nur uniformiert, sondern auch desinteressiert “, stellt Niema Movassat, Mitglied im Ausschuss für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung für die Bundestagsfraktion DIE LINKE mit Bedauern fest.
Uganda offers farmland for Indian investment
- IANS
- 20 August 2010
As India looks at avenues beyond its shores to deal with food security, Uganda, which has nearly half the arable land in east Africa, has laid the red carpet for inward investment from India Inc.
What’s the new global source for fresh, shiny produce? Famine-ridden Ethiopia
- Macleans
- 19 August 2010
Africa, where one in three people is malnourished, is now growing tomatoes and butter lettuce for export.
Lower Ruvu intruders won’t be compensated
- Daily News
- 18 August 2010
Government of Tanzania will not compensate villagers who have moved onto land of the proposed irrigation farming project with Korea.
Foreign investment fears unfounded: report
- NZ Herald
- 18 August 2010
Fears foreign interests have been mounting a major land grab in New Zealand, have been shot down by global accountancy firm KPMG.
Banque mondiale : en attendant le rapport sur l’accaparement des terres africaines
- RFI
- 17 August 2010
La polémique autour de l'accaparement de terres, en particulier en Afrique, est relancée par une étude de la Banque mondiale qui tarde à être publiée alors que le cours du blé repart à la hausse
Asian interest boosts Liberia palm oil hopes
- Financial Times
- 17 August 2010
Singapore-listed Golden Agri Resources said it was “actively evaluating” taking a share in a 220,000-hectare project being offered by the government of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
Emirates seek overseas feed supply
- Al Dahra
- 16 August 2010
Abu Dhabi’s Al Dahra Agricultural Company is halfway through a plan involving more than 60,700 hectares of farmland in Europe, the US, south Asia and north Africa to boost the UAE’s food security.
Alarm bells at sovereign funds' farmlands foray
- Stock & Land
- 16 August 2010
Australian Liberal senator Bill Heffernan warns that sovereign wealth funds need to be watched because some were "already acquiring other sovereigns' wealth to protect their own food security tasks".
Tanzania: South Korea set to expand co-operation
- Tanzania Daily News
- 16 August 2010
A delegation of Korea experts is expected to arrive in the country to sign a $50 million pact covering an initial 15,000 ha in the Rufiji River Basin.
Back to the land: Land acquisition in the global food economy
- Craccum
- 16 August 2010
States and mega-corporations are snapping up cheap land to produce food and making money at the expense of people in host countries.
The land rush doesn't have to end in a poor deal for Africans
- Guardian
- 16 August 2010
It is not too late for equitable partnerships to flourish between foreign investors and local communities.
Macquarie seeks crop land
- Stock & Land
- 16 August 2010
Macquarie Group's agricultural division has launched a new cropping fund that will buy large-scale grain properties in Australia and Brazil.
Gabon Government signs $4.5 billion accords on infrastructure, agriculture
- Bloomberg
- 15 August 2010
Singapore-based Olam will develop a palm-oil plantation covering as much as 300,000 hectares in the southeast of the country.