Food crisis and the global land grab
farmlandgrab.org weekly | 19 Dec 2012
The Hindu | 19 Dec 2012
The controversy regarding India’s permission to allow foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail and growing “land grab” in Africa by multinational corporations are being closely watched globally by agriculture experts, researchers and donors.
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Business Desk | 19 Dec 2012
Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board is looking to capitalise on favourable growing conditions and access to Asian markets having taken a 30 percent stake in the central North Island's Kaingaroa forestry estate.
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Myanmar Times | 17 Dec 2012
A government commission formed to identify farmland ownership disputes will bring over 300 cases of land grabs to the attention of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw before the next session begins.
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National Geographic | 14 Dec 2012
This piece is part of "Water Grabbers: A Global Rush on Freshwater", a special National Geographic News series on how grabbing land—and water—from poor people, desperate governments, and future generations threatens global food security, environmental sustainability, and local cultures.
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Joseph Hanlon | 14 Dec 2012
The NGO FONGA claims that 80,000 people will be thrown off the land by Wanbao, a Chinese company that signed a concession for 20,000 ha in Gaza Provice Mozambique for rice production.
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IRIN | 14 Dec 2012
Campaigners opposed to a large palm oil plantation in a rainforest covering part of the Korup National Park in southwestern Cameroon say up to 45,000 people risk losing their livelihoods if the project proceeds.
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HowWeMadeItInAfrica | 13 Dec 2012
Ander Einarsson, a partner at Phatisa and the team leader responsible for the Feronia deal, answered a few of How we made it in Africa’s questions.
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EJOLT | 13 Dec 2012
Imagine a land of 14 million hectares, bigger than Switzerland and Austria combined. Populated by millions of farming families that together practice shifting cultivation. Now imagine a foreign consultant saying that all of these are abandoned lands.
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ANBA | 30 Nov 2012
Kenana Sugar Company is the head of the spear of the Sudanese project for agricultural development. While governments and Arab companies discuss strategies for the sector, the organisation plans to invest US$ 2 billion over the next five years in several expansion projects.
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Private Equity Africa | 26 Nov 2012
Phatisa’s small-cap vehicle, the African Agriculture Fund (AAF) small and medium sized enterprise (SME) fund has sealed its first investment, backing Cameroon-based West End Farms.
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RFI | 17 dec 2012
Au Mali, de plus en plus de paysans se disent victimes d’accaparement des terres. Découvrez les témoignages de Yaya Konaré, paysan chassé de son champ, Massa Koné, militant qui défend les victimes d’accaparement, et du colonel Moussa Sinko Coulibaly, le nouveau ministre malien de l'Administration territoriale.
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AFP | 14 dec 2012
Pétrole, charbon, minerais ou terres agricoles: les entreprises chinoises, à la recherche de matières premières, investissent massivement au Canada où le gouvernement cherche à ménager cette précieuse source de devises tout en marquant sa fermeté face à Pékin.
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Gaïa Presse | 10 dec 2012
L’Union des producteurs agricoles a sonné l’alarme concernant l’accaparement des terres par des fonds spéculatifs et la multiplication des contrats d’intégration, craignant qu’on se dirige vers une agriculture de locataires plutôt que de propriétaires.
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Gaïa Presse | 10 dec 2012
L’Union des producteurs agricoles a sonné l’alarme concernant l’accaparement des terres par des fonds spéculatifs et la multiplication des contrats d’intégration, craignant qu’on se dirige vers une agriculture de locataires plutôt que de propriétaires.
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La Prensa | 13 dic 2012
La presión internacional con intereses comerciales genera que cada vez más tierras se encuentran en manos de extranjeros.
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Diario de Moçambique | 15 Dec 2012
O governante falava na capital provincial da Gaza durante a cerimónia de assinatura de memorandos de entendimento entre as empresas RBL e Wanbao, formalizando a concessão de cerca de 20 mil hectares de terra arável no Baixo Limpopo à companhia da China, que deverá explorar durante meio século.
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