Food crisis and the global land grab
farmlandgrab.org weekly | 29-Sep-2010
Reuters | 29-Sep-2010
Egypt will lease at least 200,000 acres of farmland this year for agri-business projects in North Sinai, the North Coast and Upper Egypt, the agriculture minister said on Wednesday.
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Reuters | 29-Sep-2010
Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital said it was investing $40 million to grow crops in Sudan, where agricultural spending is increasing as the government moves to address food shortages.
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Bloomberg | 29-Sep-2010
Emirates Investments Group is looking to buy food and agricultural assets in Australia and New Zealand as global demand climbs, CEO Raza Jafar said.
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CTA | 28-Sep-2010
Dans cette interview, le Prof. De Schutter explique les raisons qui mènent au Bureau du Rapporteur Spécial des Nations Unies pour le Droit à l'Alimentation à s’intéresser au phénomène de l’acquisition des terres à large échelle.
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GRAIN | 28-Sep-2010
O relatório do Banco Mundial sobre a neogrilagem legal em escala global de terras agrícolas é tanto uma decepção quanto um fracasso.
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Greenbang | 27-Sep-2010
Is big-business investment in global farmlands the way to build a sustainable, food-secure future? Or is it evidence of a new speculative bubble?
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NY Times | 27-Sep-2010
Singapore is eyeing a gigantic farming project in northeast China that could help the small, densely populated city-state diversify its food supplies, while offering export opportunities for its expertise in food safety and investment opportunities for its businesses.
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Dominion | 27-Sep-2010
Quietly, these modern-day land marauders are coming to Canada—undermining family farms, compromising local food sovereignty, and harming the environment.
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Bloomberg | 27-Sep-2010
New Zealand tightened rules for major international purchases of farmland and will now require buyers to show how an acquisition benefits the nation’s economy.
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Asahi Shimbun | 27-Sep-2010
Major Japanese trading firms are cautious about Japan buying agricultural land overseas, growing food there and then importing it. One reason, it seems, is their past failures in the agriculture business.
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AFP | 27-Sep-2010
Le gouverneur de la Banque centrale de Nouvelle-Zélande a émis quelques réserves lundi à propos du rachat par des entreprises étrangères, et notamment chinoises, de terres agricoles néo-zélandaises
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Radio New Zealand | 27-Sep-2010
New Zealand's government announced on Monday it will place new controls on overseas investors buying large land holdings.
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Asahi Shimbun | 27-Sep-2010
The fact is, Madagascar agriculture must rely on foreign capital, despite the risk of problems from farmland deals, according to Masanobu Furuya of the Asahi Shimbum
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Wall St Journal | 26-Sep-2010
Some projects aimed at increasing food production in Asia have been dropped or delayed amid the financial crisis, notes a new report by IRRI and the Asia Society.
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Impulso Baires | 25-Sep-2010
Gobierno de una de las provincias de la Patagonia Argentina entrega en concesión 200.000 hectareas para la seguridad alimentaria de China, con el aval del gobierno nacional y un crédito del BID
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TERRA | 24-Sep-2010
"On a même vendu nos cimetières aux Chinois", s'insurge Faliry Boly, président de la plate-forme des producteurs de riz du Mali.
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Xinhua | 24-Sep-2010
Israel has asked Russia's republic of Tatarstan to lease 1.5 million hectares of its land, said a visiting Israeli businessman on Friday.
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AGRA | 24-Sep-2010
AGRA paper on land grabbing in Indonesia, during the period 2004-2010, for food and agrofuels production (in Bahasa Indonesia only).
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Oxfam | 24-Sep-2010
Over the past year, I have been collecting material on biofuels, land rights in Africa, and global land grabbing. Reading through this material worries me greatly, for it carries very strong echoes of Cecil Rhodes and his merry men.
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Business Standard | 24-Sep-2010
India's Karuturi plans to emerge as a leading player in agriculture in the African continent, with revenues from agriculture trumping revenues from floriculture in two years.
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NZ Herald | 24-Sep-2010
"What China needs is safe, healthy Chinese milk and it starts all the way up stream with farming," Fonterra's CEO Andrew Ferrier said.
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El País | 23-Sep-2010
El BM afirmó que la investigación sería sobre 30 países, pero únicamente fue sobre 14. Parece que las empresas se negaron a compartir información acerca de sus inversiones en tierras de cultivo.
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Ghana Web | 23-Sep-2010
Wilmar claim to be investing in project that will employ 500 people with investment capital of $40 million. Yet the land in question supports the entire fishing industry in Tema.
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Via Camepsina | 23-Sep-2010
The agenda of the upcoming session of the FAO Committee on World Food Security, on 11-14 October 2010, includes a policy roundtable on land tenure and international investment in agriculture.
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CETRI | 23-Sep-2010
Cet ouvrage a été produit dans le cadre d’une collaboration d’Entraide et Fraternité, de la Commission Justice et Paix et du CETRI sur cette problématique du devenir des agricultures paysannes dans un contexte de pressions accrues sur les terres.
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Gulf Daily News | 23-Sep-2010
Hassan Group will cultivate 4,000 hectares of arable land in India to produce fruits (banana), rice and sugarcane for the Bahraini market.
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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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ILEIA | 16-Sep-2010
The International Financial Corporation has actually increased the ability of foreign investors to acquire land in developing country markets by promoting profitable deals, creating “investment promotion agencies” and rewriting national laws., says Anuradha Mittal
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FARM | 31-Aug-2010
L’objet de cette note est de présenter et discuter des informations récentes recueillies sur l’évolution des
aménagements et des investissements étrangers dans la zone de l’Office du Niger au Mali.
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