• Conference in Geneva looks at opportunities for global farmland investment
    • jetfin AGRO
    • 07 June 2010

    Institutional investors and wealth managers compare winning solutions, enabling them to take the right investment decisions in key markets such as farming, soft commodities or timber.

  • Kuwait backs rice cultivation study in Laos
    • Vientiane Times
    • 07 June 2010

    Kuwait has provided US$350,000 to the Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to study the suitability of extending irrigation so rice can be grown for export to Kuwait.

  • Advocacy campaign against landgrabbing in Sierra Leone
    • MADAM
    • 07 June 2010

    Local NGOs investigate the acquisition of land by Swiss company ADDAX in Sierra Leone.

  • Karuturi Global on Ethiopian plans
    • NDTV
    • 07 June 2010

    "Personally, I believe that in five years or in ten years time I would like to be seen and compared with peers such as Cargill or the Archer Daniels of the world or the Bunges of the world."

  • Destruir responsablemente el campesinado del mundo
    • Project Syndicate
    • 06 June 2010

    Es lamentable que, en lugar de desarrollar la agricultura de un modo que sea social y medioambientalmente más sostenible, actuemos como si se pudiera acelerar responsablemente la destrucción del campesinado mundial.

  • Comment bien détruire les paysans du monde
    • Project Syndicate
    • 06 June 2010

    Il est regrettable que, au lieu d’encourager une agriculture durable d’un point de vue social et environnemental, nous agissions comme si accélérer la destruction du monde paysan devait se faire de manière responsable.

  • London International Oromo Workshop: The scramble for land, ‘investment’ and environmental degradation in Oromia
    • Gadaa.com
    • 06 June 2010

    This one-day multidisciplinary workshop will examine the scale of the problem and the environmental degradation, economic, social and health problems facing the Oromo people as the result of the farmland wholesale to foreign investors and will aim to formulate a consensus on how to mitigate its burden on the Oromo people.

  • I privati della terra
    • il manifesto
    • 06 June 2010

    La corsa alle terre d’Etiopia è il fenomeno che coinvolge tutta l’Africa.

  • Rapport sur les progrès en Afrique 2010
    • AFDI
    • 06 June 2010

    L’Africa Progress Panel, un groupe indépendant présidé par Koffi Annan, s’inquiète de l’augmentation des acquisitions massives de terre qui risquent d’aggraver encore l’insécurité alimentaire en Afrique et juge important « de veiller à ce que ces transactions soient équitables et transparentes et de concevoir des garanties efficaces dans la législation nationale ».

  • تدمير طبقة الفلاحين في العالم بطريقة “مسؤولة
    • Project Syndicate
    • 04 June 2010

    بروكسل ـ مؤخراً قام البنك الدولي، ومنظمة الأمم المتحدة للأغذية والزراعة (الفاو)، والصندوق الدولي للتنمية الزراعية (إيفاد)، وسكرتارية مؤتمر الأمم المتحدة للتجارة والتنمية (الأونكتاد)، بتقديم “سبعة مبادئ للاستثمار الزراعي المسؤول”. وتسعى هذه المبادئ السبعة إلى ضمان استفادة كافة الأطراف من الاستثمارات الواسعة النطاق في الأراضي، فيستفيد المستثمرون وتعود الفائدة على المجتمعات بشكل مباشر. ولكن على الرغم من النوايا الحسنة فإن هذه المبادئ غير كافية إلى حد مفجع.

  • Responsibly destroying the world’s peasantry
    • Project Syndicate
    • 04 June 2010

    World Bank and UN's seven Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment are "woefully inadequate" says UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food.

  • SilverStreet Fund focuses on agriculture in Africa
    • Institutional Investor
    • 04 June 2010

    SilverStreet is scouting for commercial farms in five countries — Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

  • Unlocking Sub-Saharan Africa’s agricultural potential
    • World Bank
    • 04 June 2010

    World Bank's MIGA provides political risk insurance for Chayton Capital's $50 million farmland investments in southern Africa.

  • “Food estates” in West Papua raise fears of systematic marginalization
    • WPAT
    • 04 June 2010

    These planned food estates will deprive Papuans of their traditional resources for hunting and fishing and destroy the very basis of their livelihoods.

  • Land investments are wholesale sell-outs for women farmers
    • Pambazuka
    • 03 June 2010

    With the emerging land investments a new set of challenges emerges for the woman farmer.

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