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How Egypt’s water feeds the Gulf

Gulf agribusiness companies found their panacea in Egypt, which is prioritizing investment in large-scale, modernized farming to export crops over pursuing strategic crop cultivation and traditional farming methods in the Nile Valley and Delta.
Pourquoi l'investissement étranger agricole au Sénégal connait des ratés ?

L'investissement étranger dans le foncier au Sénégal n'a pas toujorus l'effet escompté car il y a un décalage de valeur entre le Sénégal et le reste du monde, explique l'expert foncier Kader Fanta Ngom
Radical proposals to save Kenya’s ailing agriculture

One of the key proposals is the establishment of 50 new large-scale farms of 2,500 acres or more that will be funded, owned and operated by the private sector, in a plan aimed at unlocking up to 500,000 acres.
Harvard’s investment in land and natural resources

Harvard University has been grabbing lands from indigenous communities, cutting down forests, and depriving rural people of access to water around the world for years.
Masiva privatización de las tierras públicas y los territorios colectivos en Brasil

La aprobación del nuevo Código de Bosques en 2012 y, después, de la Ley 13.465/17 que modifica cerca de 26 marcos legales sobre la tierra en Brasil, llamada (“Ley del grilagem” o “Ley de acaparamiento”), instrumentan una regularización ambiental y agraria como mecanismos de apropiación masiva de tierras públicas y “devueltas”
How a Chinese venture in Venezuela made millions while locals grew hungry

Under a 2010 pact with the Chávez government, China CAMC Engineering Co Ltd was paid $100 million to develop rice paddies twice the size of Manhattan to feed millions. But 9 years later, locals are hungry and the project hasn’t yielded a single grain of rice.
Au Sénégal, le coup de grâce à l'accaparement des terres par AFRI Partners

Tous les ingrédients étaient réunis pour mener à cette victoire contre l’accapareur et c’est ce dispositif qu’il faudrait pouvoir déployer à chaque menace d’un nouveau cas d’accaparement des terres qui pèse sur les droits fonciers des populations, selon SOS Faim
Palm oil development leaves Liberians poorer, says winner of 'Green Nobel'

Palm oil plantations in Liberia are billed as bringing jobs and development but actually leave locals poorer, said a Liberian lawyer who won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize on Monday.
Lawyer forced to flee Liberia hopes to return after Goldman prize win

Two years ago Alfred Brownell was forced to flee Liberia after a successful campaign against a foreign palm oil plantation led to death threats and intimidation
Accaparement made in Belgium. Le financement de Feronia par la Coopération belge

Trois années après le financement par l’agence belge de développement BIO de l’entreprise FERONIA PHC en RDC, ce rapport du CNCD-11.11.11 dénonce la persistance des conflits fonciers et l’absence d’impacts positifs pour les communautés locales.

Five from China charged over illegal banana plantation in Myanmar protected forest

China-backed banana tissue-culture plantations, banned in Laos and Thailand, began popping up in Myanmar about 12 years ago. A report issued earlier this year by Land Security and Environmental Conservation Network indicated that that there are more than 100,000 acres of banana plantations in Kachin state.

20 May 2019 Radio Free Asia

Lao villager dies after 8 years in jail over land grab protest

A Lao villager held in jail since 2011 as a leader of a land protest in the country’s Salavan province has died in custody. The seizure of land for development or agricultural use has been a major cause of protest in Laos and other authoritarian Asian countries

20 May 2019 Radio Free Asia

How Egypt’s water feeds the Gulf

Gulf agribusiness companies found their panacea in Egypt, which is prioritizing investment in large-scale, modernized farming to export crops over pursuing strategic crop cultivation and traditional farming methods in the Nile Valley and Delta.

16 May 2019 Mada Masr

Accord de libre-échange ALECA : 9 risques identifiés par la société civile tunisienne

Sous l’accord de libre-échange complet et approfondi (ALECA) en cours de négociation entre la Tunisie et l’Union européenne, les investisseurs européens auraient la possibilité d’acquérir les terres agricoles les plus fertiles en Tunisie

15 May 2019 CCFD-Terre Solidaire

Sierra Leona: Esperanzas destruidas y empeoramiento de la situación de Malen

SOCFIN Société de Agriculture Sierra Leona Ltd (SAC) llegó en 2011 a la jefatura de Malen, situada en la provincia meridional de Sierra Leona, en el marco de una gran inversión en aceite de palma.

15 May 2019 UMOYA

Pourquoi l'investissement étranger agricole au Sénégal connait des ratés ?

L'investissement étranger dans le foncier au Sénégal n'a pas toujorus l'effet escompté car il y a un décalage de valeur entre le Sénégal et le reste du monde, explique l'expert foncier Kader Fanta Ngom

15 May 2019 Commodafrica

Belgique - Bilan de la législature : le gouvernement Michel a mis le cap sur l’agriculture industrielle

En augmentant le soutien financier public belge à des entreprises (par le biais de l’agence belge d’investissement BIO), la Belgique a favorisé l’accaparement de terres vivrières.

15 May 2019 CNCD-11.11.11

Au Liberia, Equatorial Palm Oil double ses pertes au 1er semestre

EPO indique qu’il est peu probable que de nouveaux aménagements fonciers et/ou plantations soient réalisées avant la fin septembre 2019

14 May 2019 Commodafrica

Spain’s El Ciruelo acquires leading Brazilian table grape producer

Spain-based El Ciruelo has reached an agreement with Grupo JD to acquire its subsidiary Labrunier, the largest Brazilian table grape producer, with 2,400 hectares of land in Brazil.

14 May 2019 Fresh Fruit Portal

Radical proposals to save Kenya’s ailing agriculture

One of the key proposals is the establishment of 50 new large-scale farms of 2,500 acres or more that will be funded, owned and operated by the private sector, in a plan aimed at unlocking up to 500,000 acres.

14 May 2019 Nation

Harvard’s investment in land and natural resources

Harvard University has been grabbing lands from indigenous communities, cutting down forests, and depriving rural people of access to water around the world for years.

14 May 2019 Harvard Crimson

UN Resolution on the Decade of Family Farming in Japanese　（国連決議文＜日本語訳＞：家族農業の10年）

国連で採択された家族農業の１０年の日本語仮訳のPDFを掲載します。

14 May 2019

Brasil: Mapa das Terras dos Parlamentares mostra que eles acumulam fazendas na Amazônia e no Matopiba

De Olho nos Ruralistas elaborou mapa que localiza, por município, as propriedades rurais declaradas por deputados e senadores; primeira reportagem de série sobre bancada ruralista aponta latifúndios de congressistas nas fronteiras agrícolas.

12 May 2019 De Olho nos Ruralistas

Masiva privatización de las tierras públicas y los territorios colectivos en Brasil

La aprobación del nuevo Código de Bosques en 2012 y, después, de la Ley 13.465/17 que modifica cerca de 26 marcos legales sobre la tierra en Brasil, llamada (“Ley del grilagem” o “Ley de acaparamiento”), instrumentan una regularización ambiental y agraria como mecanismos de apropiación masiva de tierras públicas y “devueltas”

09 May 2019 GRAIN

What we learned from two years of investigating corrupt land deals in Indonesia and what it says about how to fix the nation’s deforestation and land rights crisis

The last of investigative series “Indonesia for Sale” examined the corruption underpinning Indonesia’s land rights and climate crisis in unparalleled depth from the expansion of oil palm plantations in the country.

08 May 2019 The Gecko Project

Sierra Leone: Parliament legalize Sierra Tropical operations

Sierra Tropical Investment Company, a subsidiary of Dole Asia Holdings, has been given the green light to operate a 4,335 ha pineapple farm by the House of Parliament.

08 May 2019 Awoko

How a Chinese venture in Venezuela made millions while locals grew hungry

Under a 2010 pact with the Chávez government, China CAMC Engineering Co Ltd was paid $100 million to develop rice paddies twice the size of Manhattan to feed millions. But 9 years later, locals are hungry and the project hasn’t yielded a single grain of rice.

08 May 2019 Reuters

Green activists are fighting the great fight—but are being dragged down by petty lawsuits

In France, the holding company Socfin and its Cameroonian subsidiary Socapalm, both affiliated with Bolloré Group, sued journalists and nongovernmental groups who reported on villagers’ protests against the companies’ palm oil plantations in their communities and land.

07 May 2019 Newsweek

21,500 hectares of land in Kawambwa offered to investors

Zambia's Kawambwa Town Council has allocated 21,500 hectares of farms to new more large scale investors to diversify the local economy driven by agriculture, mining and tourism.

06 May 2019 Lusaka Times

Au Sénégal, le coup de grâce à l'accaparement des terres par AFRI Partners

Tous les ingrédients étaient réunis pour mener à cette victoire contre l’accapareur et c’est ce dispositif qu’il faudrait pouvoir déployer à chaque menace d’un nouveau cas d’accaparement des terres qui pèse sur les droits fonciers des populations, selon SOS Faim

06 May 2019 SOS Faim

Gulf capital and Egypt's corporate food system: a region in the third food regime

Gulf investment is one of the largest foreign capitals in Egypt's agribusiness sector and it owns companies that have controlling market shares of corporate food.

05 May 2019 Review of African Political Economy

Todo al mejor postor: el nuevo plan del Banco Mundial para privatizar tierras en el sur global

Al introducir un indicador de tierra en el proyecto EBA (Facilitando los Negocios en la Agricultura por sus siglas en inglés) el Banco ha creado un instrumento para prescribir reformas de políticas que facilitarán el acceso a la tierra para la agroindustria.

03 May 2019 Biodiversidad en América Latina y el Caribe