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Brazilian farmland group set for HK listing
- Financial Times
- 18 July 2010
A farmland development group backed by Jacob Rothschild is to become the first Brazilian company to list on the Hong Kong stock exchange
Standard Bank says set to fund more S.Africa farmers
- Reuters
- 16 July 2010
Standard Bank plans to finance more land deals involving South African farmers seeking expansion opportunities across the continent to grow export crops, the bank said on Friday.
Ensuring responsible agricultural investments in the least developed countries and developing countries
- CAS
- 16 July 2010
This note, in English, follows a report by the taskforce on “Transactions of agricultural assets to foreign investors in developing countries” set up by the Centre d’analyse stratégique and chaired by Michel Clavé of Crédit Agricole S.A.
How the FAO’s Voluntary Guidelines can effectively address governance of large-scale land acquisitions
- Global Witness
- 15 July 2010
Global Witness proposes how the FAO Voluntary Guidelines on responsible governance of land tenure can best address the macroeconomic impacts of corruption and governance failures in large scale land acquisitions.
Q+A: Will "land grab" rules benefit developing countries?
- Reuters
- 14 July 2010
Opponents of land grabbing say the capital, technology and expertise from large land investments are unlikely to trickle down to poor farmers.
Sugar rush - Chinese firm close to acquiring state-owned factories
- Gleaner
- 14 July 2010
The Chinese firm COMPLANT will purchase the Jamaican government's remaining sugar assets and lease 18,000 ha of the island's cane land for 50-75 years.
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.