Global inequality experts blame the upward trend of land inequality partly on the increased interest from corporate and financial actors, such as investment funds, in agricultural land investments.
Researchers find control over the land has become far more concentrated both directly through ownership and indirectly through contract farming, which results in more destructive monocultures and fewer carefully tended smallholdings.
- Guardian
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24 November 2020
« L’Observatoire du Foncier collabore avec Land Matrix, qui est un Observatoire Global des terres et que l’Observatoire du Foncier au Cameroun utilisera le logiciel de Land Matrix et animera une page « Cameroun » sur cette plateforme mondiale », explique Samuel Nguiffo
- Initiatives Afrik
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07 February 2019
The Bandung Declaration by members of the International Land Coalition underscores that if agrarian reform is going to build justice, it must redistribute land.
Three-quarters of the 20 states most affected by land grabbing are in Africa and Asia and among the poorest in the world, and in these countries the rights of the population have scant protection.
L’Afrique reste la région la plus touchée par le phénomène des acquisitions de terres agricoles à grande échelle, selon le projet Land Matrix
- Agence Ecofin
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12 October 2016
Almost ten years have after the term “land grabbing” first entered the popular imagination, large-scale land acquisitions remain shrouded in secrecy.
- The Conversation
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11 October 2016
New report by the Land Matrix finds 26.7 million hectares of agricultural land around the world have been transferred to foreign investors since the year 2000. Report details who is buying farmland in which regions of the world and how this land is being used.
- Land Matrix
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11 October 2016
Le présent rapport lance un appel mondial à l'action sur les droits fonciers autochtones et communautaires, soutenu par plus de 300 organisations à travers le monde.
Up to 2.5 billion people depend on indigenous and community lands, which make up over 50 percent of the land on the planet; they legally own just one-fifth. The remaining land remains vulnerable to land grabs from governments and corporations.
La Via Campesina denounces the International Land Coalition for calling for mitigating the negative effects of landgrabbing, rather than insisting that landgrabbing be stopped.
- Via Campesina
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10 July 2015
Après des années de campagnes, il est temps de s’interroger sur les résultats acquis : la mobilisation des ONG a-t-elle réellement fait reculer les expropriations de terre ?
- Ouestaf News
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23 September 2014