Global food giants and international NGOs have drafted a framework to prevent land grabs just as hedge funds, companies and plantation owners race to acquire new territory.
Le pape François dénonce l’accaparement des terres dans les pays pauvres par les entreprises multinationales et d’autres États.
A new report on water for food security and nutrition shows how land, food and water issues are inextricably linked. This must be reflected in policymaking.
The Government of The Gambia and Zoeve Seed Company sign MOU on a farming project that will commence with 1000 hectares for rice production.
- Daily Observer
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27 April 2015
This week members of the Private Sector Mechanism (PSM) were at the UN FAO Head Quarters in Rome to give their views on how new Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment can be used to respond to the urgent need to increase global investment in farm production.
Members of the Private Sector Mechanism were at the FAO in Rome to give their views on how new Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment can be used to respond to the urgent need to increase global investment in farm production.
Les pays africains accueillent une plate-forme pour la coordination et le partage des leçons, des connaissances et des expériences afin d’améliorer la gouvernance foncière conformément a la Déclaration de l'Union africaine sur les problèmes et enjeux fonciers en Afrique.
Official implementation of the guidelines, via national governments, has started at a snail’s pace in only several countries, and monitoring systems are yet to be created.
PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) strongly believes that while the rai Principles claims to be rights-based and supposedly recognizes the right to food, its overarching framework and several of its principles actually contradict such claims.
After a painstaking two-year negotiation process, the Principles lack the power to change the status quo, whereby corporate profit trumps human rights and the environment.
- Global Witness
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30 October 2014
Les principes d’investissements responsables dans l’agriculture (rai) ne contiennent pas suffisamment de sauvegardes pour stopper l’accaparement des terres, dénonce La Via Campesina
- La Via Campesina
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17 October 2014
Via Campesina says the Principles for responsible investment in agriculture do not contain sufficient safeguards to stop land grabbing and other destructive actions by private capital and complicit governments.
- Via Campesina
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16 October 2014