Food crisis and the global land grab
farmlandgrab.org weekly | 9-Jun-2010
AFP | 08-Jun-2010
La Hongrie veut avec ce moratoire éviter les transactions spéculatives, en raison de la faible valeur marchande de ses terrains comparée aux prix pratiqués en Europe de l'Ouest.
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Folha de São Paulo | 08-Jun-2010
Pelo menos nove grupos, entre coreanos, chineses e indonésios, vieram neste ano ao país em busca de terras para plantio de alimentos.
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ABC Rural | 08-Jun-2010
Questions have been raised at a Senate inquiry in Canberra about whether foreign investment rules go far enough to keep Australian agriculture sustainable.
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NFU | 07-Jun-2010
The National Farmers Union (NFU) today released the first report of its kind documenting Canadian developments in a global farmland grab.
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CBC | 07-Jun-2010
The National Farmers Union is warning that the Canadian family farm is under threat from increased corporate control and foreign ownership.
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Reuters | 07-Jun-2010
Foreigners will be allowed to have a maximum ownership of 49 percent in plantations for staples such as rice, according to a presidential decree seen by Reuters on Monday.
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Les Échos | 07-Jun-2010
La déclinaison spécifique des principes de l'investissement responsable des Nations unies par rapport à la question alimentaire s'impose.
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The National | 07-Jun-2010
“We plan to have invested $1bn in farms within five years,” says Petrus du Toit of Ridge Solutions, which is acquiring farmland in Angola with backing from foreign investors.
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Malaysia Insider | 07-Jun-2010
Joint venture with the India/UAE Allana Group acquires 20,000 head of cattle owned by Felda and gains access to over 850,000 hectares of oil palm land.
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jetfin AGRO | 07-Jun-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.
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Vientiane Times | 07-Jun-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.
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MADAM | 07-Jun-2010
Local NGOs investigate the acquisition of land by Swiss company ADDAX in Sierra Leone.
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Project Syndicate | 06-Jun-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.
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Project Syndicate | 06-Jun-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.
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Gadaa.com | 06-Jun-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.
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Project Syndicate | 04-Jun-2010
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Project Syndicate | 04-Jun-2010
World Bank and UN's seven Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment are "woefully inadequate" says UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food.
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Institutional Investor | 04-Jun-2010
SilverStreet is scouting for commercial farms in five countries — Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
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World Bank | 04-Jun-2010
World Bank's MIGA provides political risk insurance for Chayton Capital's $50 million farmland investments in southern Africa.
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WPAT | 04-Jun-2010
These planned food estates will deprive Papuans of their traditional resources for hunting and fishing and destroy the very basis of their livelihoods.
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Pambazuka | 03-Jun-2010
With the emerging land investments a new set of challenges emerges for the woman farmer.
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Bloomberg | 03-Jun-2010
By 2008 global grain prices were reaching record levels, and Swedish, British, Chinese, and Korean investors were piling into Russian farmland.
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NZ Herald | 03-Jun-2010
A lawyer advising the NZ Government how to make it easier to sell assets overseas is working for the Chinese company wanting to buy the Crafar farms, the Green Party says.
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investinbrazil.biz | 01-Jun-2010
Brazilian farm companies are in a race of investments with every major company making new acquisitions and major capital investments.
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World Bank | 30-Apr-2010
Radical economic, structural and social change may be spawned by growing demand for land in certain countries, and so may love affairs, says the World Bank.
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AMAN | 23-Apr-2010
"We request the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to conduct an independent study on the impact of MIFEE and other similar businesses to Indigenous Peoples in Merauke and around the world."
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