• Governments should protect citizens’ interests
    • The Star
    • 16 Mar 2012

    The bottom line is that it is the responsibility of the host governments to set policies and a legal framework that protect their citizens’ interests – by encouraging investment, and protecting the rights of affected individuals.

  • ¡Denuncia los acaparamientos de tierras!
    • Vía Campesina
    • 16 Mar 2012

    17 Abril: Día Internacional de las luchas campesinas

  • Barnaby Joyce breaks ranks over foreign ownership of farmland
    • SMH
    • 16 Mar 2012

    The Australian Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce is pushing for even tougher restrictions on foreign ownership of farmland and agribusinesses than those advocated by his party, fuelling Liberal anger at Tony Abbott's failure to rein in National Party ''freelancing'' on sensitive economic issues.

  • Italia. Vino, olio, case e petrolio. Chi vince?
    • Crocevia
    • 16 Mar 2012

    L’attacco all’uso agricolo della terra non è il risultato dell’equilibrio instabile e della competizione delle forze di mercato né, tanto meno, della spontanea iniziativa di sanguinari profittatori.

  • Dénoncez les accaparements de terres!
    • La Via Campesina
    • 16 Mar 2012

    Où que vous soyez le 17 avril 2012, complétez cette affiche en y indiquant les accapareurs de terres de chez vous et envoyez-nous une photo de la manière dont vous l'utilisez pour protestez.

  • Marche contre l'accaparement des terres et la spéculation foncière au Mali
    • No-Vox
    • 16 Mar 2012

    Vidéo de la marche organisée le 13 mars 2012, à Bamako, Mali, par l'Union des Associations et Coordination des Associations pour le Développement et la Défense des Droits des Démunis.

  • Farmland hindered as asset class
    • Professional Pensions
    • 16 Mar 2012

    The £35bn BT Pension Scheme is seeking to replace its commodity future exposure with investment in agricultural land

  • Chongqing agriculture companies venture abroad
    • Want China Times
    • 15 Mar 2012

    Officials from Chongqing in southwest China plan to invest US$6 billion this year to develop agriculture in Brazil, Argentina, Canada and other countries.

  • Is Liberia land grab by foreign firms sowing seed of future conflict?
    • Africa Today
    • 15 Mar 2012

    Small farmers lose livelihoods as 'controversial' palm-oil producing multinational moves in. Much of rural Liberia's population lives on land that has been in the family for generations.

  • Perú: ¿Por qué debe haber un límite a la propiedad de la tierra?
    • Servindi
    • 15 Mar 2012

    Lo que viene ocurriendo en el Perú no es un proceso aislado, sino parte de un fenómeno mundial de adquisición de tierras a gran escala, alentado por el ascenso en la demanda global de alimentos, forraje, madera, minerales y viviendas.

  • SIWI report launch: Land acquisitions: How will they impact transboundary waters?
    • SIWI
    • 14 Mar 2012

    A new exploratory report from the Stockholm International Water Institute investigates how the current surge in land acquisitions and investments by foreign countries, sovereign wealth funds, private corporations and domestic investors will affect transboundary water management, an area where current knowledge is sparse.

  • Liberation and the looting of African land
    • Waging Nonviolence
    • 14 Mar 2012

    Despite decades of anti-colonial civilian resistance in Africa, a pernicious movement of land acquisition is overtaking the continent at a rate unprecedented since the conquests of the 19th Century.

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