Food crisis and the global land grab
farmlandgrab.org weekly | 15-Dec-2010
BBC | 15-Dec-2010
A controversial new farms policy has led to a number of arrests and the killings of 10 local farmers, say local activists.
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Times of Oman | 12-Dec-2010
"Indian law does not allow foreign companies to buy land and therefore Omani companies can enter into a contract farming relationship," says senior Indian government official.
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AFP | 10-Dec-2010
"Foreign companies and powerful Argentine corporations are coming to the region. Their intention is to buy and buy."
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FWI | 10-Dec-2010
Some Danish farmland investors are quitting the UK after seeing land prices rise here and tumble at home over the past few years.
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MTI | 10-Dec-2010
The Internal Market and Services Directorate General (DG MARKT) has made a written proposal to the European Commission to approve a request by Hungary to extend its moratorium on purchases of farmland by foreigners for another three years until 2014.
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Bloomberg | 10-Dec-2010
Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade told ministers yesterday to create an Agency for Afro-Arab Affairs to attract more Arab investment into the country’s agrarian economy.
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Reuters | 11-Nov-2010
Tanzania expects South Korea to begin farming 15,000 hectares of land in the east African country early next year for food production and processing, a senior official said on Thursday.
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