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  • Acaparamientos de tierras en Mali: Campesinos presos
    • Vía Campesina
    • 25 April 2012

    Convergencia : CNOP, UACDDDD, CAD, LJDH, AOPP contra los acaparamientos de tierras

  • La famille Louis-Dreyfus investit dans des terres agricoles
    • La France Agricole
    • 25 April 2012

    Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, l'ancien président du groupe de négoce du même nom, et son neveu Peter Mann ont créé une société avec la holding russe Sistema afin d'investir dans les terres agricoles en Russie où ils visent « 150.000 à 250.000 hectares à moyen terme »

  • Growing concentration of land is in foreign hands
    • Latinamerica Press
    • 25 April 2012

    The processes of concentration, foreign ownership and land degradation came to be a central concern of supranational bodies and NGOs that warn of the “negative effects of these phenomena on food security, agricultural employment and the development of family farming.”

  • Foreign investment in the time of the telegram
    • The Land
    • 25 April 2012

    Senator believes a revision of foreign investment rules must adequately consider the changing nature of national sovereignty, in the face of a mounting global food security task.

  • Land grabbing in Mali: Farmers arrested
    • CNOP, UACDDDD, CAD, LJDH, AOPP
    • 24 April 2012

    When the peasants of Sanamadougou and Saou began preparing their lands on 23 April 2012, they were very surprised when four of their leaders, including the village chief, were arrested and taken to the Brigade de gendarmerie in Markala.

  • Declaración conjunta - Banco Mundial: ¡Fuera de la tierra!
    • Vía Campesina
    • 24 April 2012

    Conferencia del Banco Mundial sobre Tierra y Pobreza - del 23 al 26 de abril en Washington

  • Twynam's flight to Africa
    • The Land
    • 24 April 2012

    Family that sold Australia's biggest water licence in history has been selling its NSW farming operations and is setting up a new agricultural empire in the Blue Nile state in Sudan

  • Ofensiva do capital internacional sobre as terras na América Latina
    • ALAI
    • 24 April 2012

    "Caberá ao movimento popular do campo e aos povos indígenas empunhar bandeira de resistência a essa ofensiva do capital internacional sobre as terras do nosso continente".

  • Dealing with Disclosure: Improved transparency in decision-making over large-scale land acquisitions, allocations and investments
    • Global Witness, OI, ILC
    • 24 April 2012

    Report looks at why it is vital to transform the secretive culture behind large scale land deals and sets out in detail what tools governments, companies and citizens can harness to ensure that this happens.

  • Meat Consumption in China Now Double That in the United States
    • 24 April 2012

    More than a quarter of all the meat produced worldwide is now eaten in China, and the country’s 1.35 billion people are hungry for more. In 1978, China’s meat consumption of 8 million tons was one third the U.S. consumption of 24 million tons. But by 1992, China had overtaken the United States as the world’s leading meat consumer—-and it has not looked back since. Now China’s annual meat consumption of 71 million tons is more than double that in the United States. With U.S. meat consumption falling and China’s consumption still rising, the trajectories of these two countries are determining the shape of agriculture around the planet.

  • World Bank overseeing global land grab
    • IPS
    • 23 April 2012

    The World Bank continues to facilitate land-grabbing in poor and developing countries around the world, according to new research released on Monday.

  • Campaigners claim World Bank helps facilitate land grabs in Africa
    • The Guardian
    • 23 April 2012

    Food shortages and rural deprivation exacerbated by World Bank policy, says NGO ahead of land and poverty conference

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