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Du 13 au 17 novembre 2009, des représentants des organisations paysannes et des mouvements sociaux qui sont directement impliqués dans les luttes contre cette nouvelle vague d’accaparement des terres seront à Rome.

From 13-17 November 2009, representatives from peasant organisations and social movements that have been directly involved in struggles against this new wave of global land grabbing will be in Rome.

Issue paper by FAO for the World Summit on Food Security, Rome, 16-18 November 2009

More than 50 heads of state will gather for a summit later this month to look at ways of policing the extraordinary "land grab" that has seen richer countries buy up at least 20m ha of farmland in Africa in the last 18 months.

These issues will be central to the World Summit on Food Security to be held from November 16 through 18 at the headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome.

The FAO's response to the acquisition of land by foreign entities will be a separate process from the development of voluntary guidelines on land tenure, but will also address issues of governance and the need for effective and fair institutions.

Entretien avec Paul Mathieu, expert foncier à la FAO

The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation aims to draw the first ever global guidelines to ensure land access to farmers and investors, boost food security and prevent arbitrary land grabs, the FAO said on Tuesday.

The discussion “Land Grab or Development opportunity?” has just been launched at by FAO's Global Food Security and Nutrition Forum and invites members to comment and share their views on the issue of foreign acquisitions of developing countries’ farmland.

The Government of Japan, with the World Bank, FAO, IFAD and UNCTAD, try to initiate a coordinated global response to the growing land grabbing trend at the UN

Viele Beobachter sprechen von Neokolonialismus – andere sehnen eine win-win-Situation herbei. Wohl selten hat ein Thema aus der internationalen Zusammen-arbeit so viel Aufmerksamkeit erhalten wie aktuell das Phänomen des „Landgrab-bing“.

Il est difficile de cerner l’ampleur réelle du phénomène récent d’appropriation de terrains cultivables dans les pays du Sud. Mais des études font fortement douter du bénéfice que ceux-ci pourraient en tirer.