Unos 400 delegados provenientes de 70 países de América Latina y África, que participan en la cumbre paralela organizada frente a la FAO y autorizada por la entidad de Naciones Unidas, protestan desde el lunes en denuncia por "la compra masiva de tierras" por parte de grandes firmas agro-alimentarias con la complicidad de la FAO.
International farmland-investment standards of the kind being worked upon are much needed. But agricultural agencies such as the FAO are not equipped to establish good property-rights regimes in the developing world, writes the Globe and Mail
The 450 civil society organisations taking part in a parallel forum were not won over by FAO's optimism about a code of conduct. "Land grabbing by external capital must stop," read a declaration by participants at the forum.
Varias ONG acusaron a las multinacionales del sector alimentario de intentar hacerse con millones de hectáreas de tierras de buena calidad pertenecientes a pequeños campesinos del Tercer Mundo, durante la cumbre de la FAO sobre la seguridad alimentaria que se celebra en Roma.
El Foro Alternativo a la FAO clama contra los países ricos que acaparan las tierras de las naciones en vías de desarrollo
Across the street from the conference, human rights and farmers' groups protested sporadically throughout the three days. Small farmers' groups put on street theatre, re-enacting scenes of land-grabbing by foreign companies, with thugs bearing sticks pretending to threaten the small land owners.
The UN and the World Bank are walking a tightrope in drawing up a code of conduct for farmland deals as they do not want to undermine investor confidence. Campaigners call such "win-win" codes "a nonsense".
Los efectos de la apropiación de tierras agrícolas por corporaciones y capitales extranjeros bajo la lupa, en vísperas de la conferencia mundial de la FAO sobre soberanía alimentaria
And now the bad news. FAO has taken a U-turn in its clear position on the race by food-importing countries and private companies to buy land overseas for domestic food and agriculture needs.
Land grabbing by transnational capital must stop.
El actual acaparamiento global de las tierras cultivables, donde la inversión extranjera toma el control de la tierra y el agua en los países en desarrollo, no tiene nada que ver con el fortalecimiento de la agricultura familiar y los mercados locales, que a nuestro juicio es la única manera de avanzar para lograr sistemas alimentarios que alimenten a la gente. Debe ser inmediatamente detenido.
At the UN hunger summit in Rome wealthy food-importing nations are being accused of grabbing land from small farmers in developing countries and ignoring the plight of starving people.
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