Food crisis and the global land grab
farmlandgrab.org weekly | 06-Oct-2010
New Security Beat | 06-Oct-2010
The two months we spent in the Amhara and Oromia regions of Ethiopia, surveying smallholders and profiling large-scale commercial farms, left us with a different impression.
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Spire | 06-Oct-2010
Please support our demands that the Norwegian Government stops import of commodities from grabbed land, takes initiativ to international cooperation to control investment deals in the agricultural sector, and make sure that Norwegian investments never happens at the expence of peoples food security or participation.
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BBC | 05-Oct-2010
Investment managers in the US report rising interest from pension schemes and retail investors in funds that buy and run farmland in developed countries.
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QNA | 05-Oct-2010
Representatives of Saudi group Agro invest, a public-private agricultural investment company, are now in Brazil seeking partnerships for producing and exporting grain and poultry.
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iProfesional | 04-Oct-2010
Los intentos por imponer restricciones a la compra de tierras y recursos estratégicos locales por parte de extranjeros comienzan, poco a poco, a transformarse en una auténtica cruzada en toda la Argentina.
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Via Campesina | 04-Oct-2010
Farmers from La Via Campesina will be at meeting of the FAO Committee on World Food Security next week to demand concrete measures to tackle the problem of land-grabbing.
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Canal Rural | 04-Oct-2010
A necessidade de garantir a segurança alimentar da Arábia Saudita trouxe ao Brasil uma delegação de governo e empresários, liderada pelo ministro da Agricultura, Fahad Abduralhaman Bal Ghunaim.
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Portal MS | 04-Oct-2010
Uma Proposta de Emenda Constitucional (PEC) que regulamente a aquisição de terras por estrangeiros e se adeque a este novo cenário, seria muito bem-vinda.
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TIAA-CREF | 04-Oct-2010
TIAA is among the largest institutional investors in agriculture, with investments in more than 400 farms in North America, South America, Australia, and Eastern Europe as part of its General Account.
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Hürriyet Daily News | 04-Oct-2010
Fallow land in Africa presents a fantastic opportunity for Turkish businesspeople involved in agriculture, a Ugandan member of a cotton delegation visiting western Turkey said Monday.
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Jakarta Post | 04-Oct-2010
News of progress on the massive Merauke food estate in Papua indicates growing momentum behind Indonesia’s attempts to boost its agricultural output through promoting investment and harnessing technology.
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East African | 04-Oct-2010
The morality of the global land rush is finely balanced and even the World Bank appears deeply torn.
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East African | 04-Oct-2010
The EAC food security strategy advises partner states to “resist leasing or selling large chunks of land to foreign entities for food production or bio-fuels solely for export.”
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The Land | 04-Oct-2010
Mr Verghese says that Olam sees "sustainable value" in investing in agriculture, including farmland, and that GM crops are an inevitable "must".
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Australian Farm Journal | 04-Oct-2010
The anxiety expressed in some farming quarters and the daily media about Australian farms becoming dominated by foreign corporations and governments fails to recognise that the coming and going of overseas investors has always been part of rural property transactions.
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ADN | 03-Oct-2010
Los acuerdos son motivados por las demandas agroalimentarias, agroindustriales y bioenergéticas de China
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Nyeleni.org | 03-Oct-2010
El primer número del Boletín Nyeleni contiene una edición especial sobre el tema de la tierra
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Bloomberg | 02-Oct-2010
SLC, whose crops cover 223,000 hectares, will sell a 49 percent slice of the new company, Land Co., to local or foreign investors that may include sovereign and pension funds
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Mail & Guardian | 01-Oct-2010
International investors from Britain to South Africa have begun putting money into infrastructure development and transport, and about 200 exiled Zimbabwean farmers have taken leases from the Zambian government to develop farmland in the country.
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Nyeleni.org | 01-Oct-2010
Ce bulletin entend apporter une petite pierre à l’édifice de résistance qui sera bâti pour faire échec à aux multinationales, à la banque mondiale et leurs alliés. Nous encourageons toutes les organisations et tous les mouvements engagés pour la souveraineté alimentaire à s'embarquer avec nous pour ce grand voyage.
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Nyeleni.org | 01-Oct-2010
This newsletter aims to bring a small stone to the edifice of resistance that will be built to counteract transnational corporations, the World Bank and their allies. We urge all organizations and all movements committed to the struggle for food sovereignty to embark with us on this journey.
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Farmers Weekly | 01-Oct-2010
The Chinese are aware that South Africa has a research problem and they know they need farming skills for the land they’re acquiring in Africa, says Dr De Jager of AgriSA.
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Anyuak Media | 30-Sep-2010
The people of Ethiopia have a question for you and the government of Ethiopia you represent, “Why are you giving away our land to foreigners?”
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Bündnis 90/Die Grünen | 30-Sep-2010
Wie kann der verhängnisvolle Trend einer immer stärkeren Land- und Machtkonzentration in den Händen weniger Besitzer gestoppt werden?
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CongoForum | 30-Sep-2010
"Après l’absence d’investissements depuis les années 1980, c’est vrai qu’il y a un regain d’intérêt pour les pays du sud, là où la terre est disponible et la main-d’oeuvre peu chère. Mais les retombées pour les pays hôtes sont insignifiantes."
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COPAGEN | 24-Sep-2010
La meilleure réponse aux conséquences graves de l’accaparement des terres, selon COPAGEN, est de faire en sorte que les paysannes et paysans petits producteurs trouvent plus rentable d’exploiter leurs terres que de les céder massivement pour tenter de survivre.
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GBC | 18-Sep-2010
Some natives of Tema Manhean have prevented officials of WILMAR, a Singaporean edible oil refinery company, from developing a piece of land near the naval base which was allegedly sold to the company by the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority.
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Le Jour | 13-Aug-2010
Installés dans la Haute-Sanaga depuis quatre ans, les chinois s'adonnent à la riziculture. Enquête sur une activité parrainée par les pouvoirs publics
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