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For an overview of the intrsuments relevant to international investments in land, see HLPE,
“Land tenure and international investments in agriculture: A report by the High Level Panel of
Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the Committee on World Food Security” FAO
Committee on World Food Security (July 2011), chapter 5.
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See http://www.dakarappeal.org/.
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Resolution of the members of the Committees on Agriculture, Natural Resources, Rural
Economy and Environment of the Pan African Parliament issued in Midrand, South Africa on 22
July 2011 on the occasion of the workshop “Making investment Work for Africa: a
Parliamentarian response to land grabbing”; organized by the Pan African Parliament.
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Land Policy Initiative, Nairobi Action Plan on Large scale land-based investments in Africa
(October 2011).
35
R. Arezki, K. Deiniger, H. Selod “ What drives the global land rush?” IMF Working Paper
WP/11/251 (2011), p. 20.
36
Interview with Agence France Press reported in News24, “Foreign land buying in Africa
slammed” (8 December 2011), http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/Foreign-landbuying-in-Africa-slammed-20111207
(accessed on 12 February 2012).
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HLPE, “Land tenure and international investments in agriculture: A report by the High Level
Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the Committee on World Food Security”
FAO Committee on World Food Security (July 2011), p. 17.
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E.g. P. Burnod, H. Papazian, A. Adamczewski, P-M. Bosc, J-P. Tonneau, and J-Y. Jamin
“Régulations des investissements agricoles à grande échelle : Études de Madagascar et du
Mali” 237 Afrique contemporaine (2011).
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K. Deininger, D. Byerlee, J. Lindsay, A. Norton, H. Selod, M. Stickler, “Rising Global Interest
in Farmland. Can it Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits?” World Bank (2011), p. 63.
40
D. Pentzlin, R. Tansey, P. de Clerk and H. Burley, “Farming Money: How European banks
and private finance profit from food speculation and land grabs” Friends of the Earth Europe
(January 2012), p. 7.
41
Oxfam, “Land and power: The growing scandal surrounding the new wave of investments in
land” Oxfam briefing paper 151 (22 September 2011), p. 14-17 and 35.
42
The Oakland Institute, “Deciphering Emergent’s investments in Africa” Land deal brief (June
2011).
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The Oakland Institute, “Country Report: Mozambique” Understanding Land Investment Deals
in Africa (2011).
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H. von Witzke and S. Noleppa, “EU Agricultural Production and Trade: Can More Efficiency
Prevent Increasing ‘Land-Grabbing’ Outside Of Europe?” OPERA Research report (2010).
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European Commission and Joint Research Centre, “Prospects for Agricultural Markets and
Income in the EU 2011 – 2020” Directorate- General for Agriculture and Rural Development
(December 2011).
46
The Oakland Institute, “The role of development agencies” Land deal brief (December 2011).
47
Oxfam, “Land and power: The growing scandal surrounding the new wave of investments in
land” Oxfam briefing paper 151 (22 September 2011), p. 35.
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Thomas Molony and James Smith, “Briefing: Biofuels, Food Security, and Africa” (2010) 109
African Affairs 489, p. 489.
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Tim Rice, “Meals per gallon: The impact of industrial biofuels on people and global hunger”
ActionAid (January 2010), p. 9.
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Ibid.
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EuropeAid, “Position paper on Biofuels for the ACP-EU Energy Facility” (2009), p. 1.
52
Tim Rice, “Meals per gallon: The impact of industrial biofuels on people and global hunger”
ActionAid (January 2010), p. 32.
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