Land acquisitions in Africa have often been portrayed as a development opportunity or as land grabbing. Here is an aggregated page that displays tweets before, during and after a heated debate on whether land grabs are good for Africa, broadcast live by the BBC World Service from Sierra Leone.
It is being dubbed the second scramble for Africa: millions of acres of land are being snapped up by companies from Asia and the Middle East, channel4.com reports.
Land degradation and increasing scarcity of water are threatening food production around the world, according to a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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The state does not want to see mass sales of land plots by famers and wants to buy up at least 30% of the country’s farmland, Deputy Head of the State Agency for Land Resources of Ukraine, Mykola Kaliuzhny, has said.
The story is an example of how China’s booming economy, as well as lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty, has also generated unrest.
Participants at the International Conference on Global Land Grabbing overwhelmingly found that land grabbing is occurring at a scale and speed as never before, and resulting in widespread displacement and dispossession of rural and urban communities, especially small-hold agricultural producers.
The role that hedge funds are playing in land grabs in Africa.
With large-scale agricultural investments on the rise, the rights of local people must be protected, according to the World Resources Institute.
Directory of all of the Oakland Institute‘s publications linking land grabs to food (in)security.
Democracy Now investigates corporate farming on a global scale.
Cambodia – a country seemingly up for sale. Investors are flooding an unregulated property market, driving tens of thousands from their homes.
Foreign acquisitions of farmland in Africa and elsewhere have become the focus of concern. Many observers consider this development a new form of colonialism that threatens food security of the poor. David Hallam of FAOs Trade and Market Division argues that investments could be good news if the objectives of land purchasers are reconciled with the investment needs of developing countries.
Corrupt land investments in Bahrain according to Al Jazeera.
The UN food agency says world hunger can be tackled with better policies and investment practices.
Linking the global food system to land grabs.
