• L’accaparement des terres toujours d’actualité à Madagascar
    • RFI
    • 16 July 2012

    L’engouement pour les terres se poursuit dans le cadre des projets agricoles ou miniers, et la transparence fait parfois défaut, selon Eric Raparison, le coordonnateur du plate-forme de Solidarité des intervenants sur le foncier

  • Dick buys AAco shares to 'get in debate'
    • Stock & Land
    • 16 July 2012

    Outspoken entrepreneur and aviator Dick Smith has bought $1 million worth of shares in Australian Agricultural Co (AAco) - Australia's second-largest landholder - because he doesn't want to sound hypocritical when he campaigns against foreign ownership of farms.

  • ook Europa doet mee aan ‘landjepik’
    • Aarde Boer Consument
    • 15 July 2012

    Volgens een rapport van FIAN, TNI en anderen is Europa sterk betrokken bij de aankoop van landbouwgrond en landbouw-infrastructuur. Rechtstreeks door Europese investeerders, maar ook door het Europese beleid dat leidt tot ‘land-grabs’.

  • India pumps in food processing, agriculture tech expertise into Africa
    • FBN
    • 14 July 2012

    Some of the major factors drawing companies from India to Africa in addition to the fertile land and natural resources are the exemption from taxes/duties, along with ample government assistance.

  • Brasil: Russo apoia a flexibilização na compra de terras por estrangeiros
    • Jornal Día a Día
    • 14 July 2012

    A proibição de compra de terras por estrangeiros começou em 2010, após parecer da Advogacia-Geral da União, em relação a Lei 5.709/71, que regula este assunto.

  • Exprimir África hasta la última gota: Detrás de cada acaparamiento de tierra hay un acaparamiento de agua
    • GRAIN
    • 14 July 2012

    GRAIN examina lo que hay detrás de la fiebre por las tierras en África y revela que hay una lucha mundial por algo que, cada vez más, es considerado una mercancía más preciosa que el oro o el petróleo: el agua.

  • Déclaration de Bukit Tinggi : Réforme agraire, défense de la terre et des territoires au 21e siècle
    • La Via Campesina
    • 14 July 2012

    Ces soi-disant « investissements » ne sont rien de plus que le vol des territoires des peuples indigènes, des paysans et des paysannes, des pêcheurs, des éleveurs et d’autres communautés locales.

  • Commodity falls spark investor rethink
    • CNBC
    • 13 July 2012

    Passive indices have been replaced by new sophisticated active indices and pension fund managers like APG are investing in natural resources assets, including farmland.

  • Argentina: ¿Y la Ley?
    • El Argentino
    • 13 July 2012

    En abril la Presidenta Cristina Fernández de Kirchner anunció que el Parlamento nacional iba a tratar el proyecto de Ley sobre arrendamiento, que le iba a poner un límite a la extranjerización de la tierra y está llamada a ponerle un freno al éxodo rural.

  • Alquilar tierras, hipotecar el futuro
    • Panorama
    • 13 July 2012

    "Los atropellos se han sucedido sin parar y aquellos maravillosos beneficios que gozarían los pueblos que se amoldarían a la nueva inversión agrícola, se han quedado en papel mojado”.

  • Stevia Nutra signs strategic agreement with agro-development company
    • Business Wire
    • 12 July 2012

    The Canadian company Stevia Nutra Corporation announced that it has entered into a “Services Provision Agreement” with Ecologica Co. Ltd, a Cambodian agro-development company, to develop largescale stevia plantations in Cambodia

  • Agrarian reform in the 21st century
    • La Via Campesina
    • 12 July 2012

    “The destruction and grabbing of resources from peasants and poor people have intensified and if we are to succeed in defending our land, territory and our very future, we need to come together and identify clearly the kind of Agrarian Reform we are looking for and the strategy for which we achieve it.”

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