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• Land reform source of future conflict

  
  The Zimbabwe Times — Authority: 145
  I ADMIT, maybe it should not be called a land reform. The word “reform” tends to carry connotations of improvement. I just call it that because that is what it is called by the President and First Secretary of Zanu PF, who is also that revolutionary party’s supreme leader and oh, lest we forget, who is also the ...
  4 days ago

• Land grab or development opportunity? (AfricaFiles)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 147
  Read at :AfricaFilesTitle: Agricultural investment and international land deals in AfricaAuthor: L. Cotula, S. Vermeulen, R. Leonard, J, Keeley,Category: Africa GeneralDate: 12/2/2009Source: FAOSource Website: ftp.fao.org <http://www.africafiles.org/database/ftp.fao.org>African Charter Article# 21: All ...
  5 days ago

• MALI: Land grab fears linger (IRIN)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 147
  Read at : IRINMALI: Land grab fears lingerSEGOU, 2 December 2009 (IRIN) – In Mali the government has approved long-term leases for outside investors to develop more than 160,000 hectares of land. Government officials say the country could not develop its cultivable land otherwise, but local farmers say they fear ...
  6 days ago

• Mahoso Invades Mutare Farm

  
  Messages From Zimbabwe — Authority: 127
  President Robert Mugabe’s former chief media policeman Tafataona Mahoso has invaded a commercial farm near Mutare, giving the white owner only 48 hours to vacate the property that had been his home for years.Top military commanders, officials and supporters of Mugabe’s ZANU PF party have stepped farm seizures ...
  1 week ago

• Zimbabwe’s Holocaust

  
  Messages From Zimbabwe — Authority: 127
  Whenever I look at the charred ruin of what a few weeks ago was our home, and see on my bed when I close my eyes the flames that engulfed everything we owned, I can not help thinking of the flames that, to the nationalists of Germany, were the final solution to the Jewish question [...]
  1 week ago

• Farm Invasion Report On Umvovo Farm In Chegutu - A Brief Timeline Of Recent Events

  
  Messages From Zimbabwe — Authority: 127
  Background:  The Beattie family were some of the most productive farmers in Zimbabwe.  When the rule of law prevailed they used to grow 1300 hectares of crops under irrigation and 1700 hectares of crops dry land.They also had a substantial livestock production enterprise.  In 2009 the 300 hectares of citrus trees ...
  1 week ago

• Profit hunger driving world famine

  
  A World to Win — Authority: 125
  The unchecked surge in the power of global agri-business is bringing the world to the brink of an unprecedented famine. At a world summit on food and agriculture which ended in Rome yesterday, the onus was placed firmly on the governments of developing nations to deliver food security to their people. The G8 countries ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stop the global land grab! GRAIN STATEMENT AT THE JOINT GRAIN-LA VIA CAMPESINA MEDIA BRIEFING

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 139
  Rome, 16 November 2009                       http://www.grain.org/o/?id=87 ”The question we should be asking is not “How do we make these investments work?” It is “What farming and food systems will feed people without making them sick, keep farmers on the farm instead of the city ...
  2 weeks ago

• Foreign acquisitions: some opportunities, but many see threats (AfricaFiles / United Nations Africa Renewal)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 147
  Read at :AfricaFilesTitle: Foreign land acquisitions: some opportunities, many threatsAuthor: Roy LaishleyCategory: Africa GeneralDate: 11/11/2009Source: United Nations Africa RenewalSource Website: http://farmlandgrab.org/8861African Charter Article# 20: All peoples shall have the right to existence and self ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mugabe Defends Land Reforms, Attacks West

  
  Messages From Zimbabwe — Authority: 127
  Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has defended land reforms blamed for plunging his people into starvation and lashed out at the West for imposing “inhuman sanctions.”Addressing a UN food summit Tuesday, Mugabe said the policy under which thousands of white-owned commercial farms were seized in 2000 was a quest for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hard times for Karnataka executive, judiciary (Letter from Bangalore)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  By V.S. KarnicBangalore, Nov 13 (IANS) For the first time in Karnataka, both the executive and the judiciary are simultaneously passing through troubled times.The legislature, meeting early next month, is set to be paralysed by an opposition waiting to clobber the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) first government in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Wisconsin dairy farmers under attack from DATCP

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 139
  Copyright 2009 ©  Marti Oakley All rights reserved.Jackass alert # 7It appears a newly announced meeting has been scheduled for Wisconsin dairy farmers, with Wisconsin, Department of Agriculture ,Trade and Consumer Protection” also known as DATCP. I have this odd feeling that DATCP actually stands for ...
  4 weeks ago

• Post-independence land-grabbing in Kenyan uncovered

  
  Kenya Imagine — Authority: 117
  Business Daily publishes a must-read report on land grabbing and settlement schemes (not the noun) in post colonial Kenya. Alcohol and greed feature prominently.
  4 weeks ago

• “Clean Water Restoration Act”/Another federal land grab

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 139
  The Feds are after every facet of control over our lives. Here is the “Clean Water Restoration Act” which will control every puddle, lake, stream and well in the US.Please contact Congress and tell them to leave our water alone.JS RuggAlso see:  Water Resotration Act is anything but  from April of ...
  4 weeks ago

• China 3G stirs up mobile Internet frenzy (Reuters)

  
  PC Mike - Tech News and Reviews — Authority: 461
  Reuters – China’s recent roll out of 3G mobile services is creating a land grab among its Internet firms, old and new alike, salivating over a mobile Internet market the size of the U.S. and Europe combined. Read the original here: (Reuters)"> (Reuters)">China 3G stirs up mobile Internet frenzy ...
  4 weeks ago

• The new farm owners

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 139
  The PPJ welcomes GRAIN.org to our roster.Corporate investors lead the rush for control over overseas farmlandGRAIN, October 2009With all the talk about “food security,” and distorted media statements like “South Korea leases half of Madagascar’s land,”1 it may not be evident to a lot of people that the lead ...
  5 weeks ago

• Bennett’s Former Farm Used For Illegal Activities

  
  Messages From Zimbabwe — Authority: 127
  A former leading coffee farm in Zimbabwe, owned by Roy Bennett in Chimanimani, is now ground for illegal activities including, sell of opaque beer and gold panning.Radio VOP has established that one of the cottages at the former farmhouse of Deputy Agriculture Minister designate and Movement for Democratic Change ...
  5 weeks ago

• CAYC Commodore summoned to the headmistressesoffice

  
  Muscat Confidential — Authority: 119
  It seems the Commodore of the Capital Area Yacht Club [a.k.a CAYC] has been summoned to the headmistresses office, according to my sources. Her Excellency, The Minister of Tourism, has called for a very urgent meeting with him, front and centre in her office tomorrow. Topic no. 1 on the agenda? I presume, maybe, ...
  5 weeks ago

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