Las poblaciones afectadas no siempre permanecen expectantes. Además de la larga lucha del pueblo mapuche contra Benetton en Chile y Argentina, el caso de Madagascar es paradigmático.
La colère suscitée par l'éventuel démarrage d'un vaste projet agricole, conclu entre l'ancien gouvernement et la société sud-coréenne Daewoo Logistics, continue d'alimenter la crise actuelle.
It's a tsunami of land deals and, as all of the experts who have studied the phenomenon have agreed, no nation is truly prepared for its implications.
Je me demande si l'agenda du développement rural semblerait déjà avoir été écrit à l'avance par toutes et tous... sauf par les paysans africains et malgaches eux-mêmes.
Yes Bank expects a $150 million Tanzanian rice and wheat project to reach full production by 2011, the first of several large African farms it is funding. "We are looking at a more inclusive model wherein the local farmers can be organised into a producers company, and they would be the suppliers to the processing facility. It's predominantly not to acquire huge tracts of land."
Des Etats multiplient les achats de terres agricoles au Sud. Avec des conséquences parfois dramatiques pour les populations locales.
M. Ndiogou Fall a exprimé lundi l'opposition "totale" du ROPPA à la vente massive des terres cultivables en Afrique
These arrangements are reminiscent of “banana republics” when many African countries served as plantations for European countries -- but even those did not come with such explicit restrictions and rigidities.
Las adquisiciones de tierra en África, Asia y Latinoamérica, tal y como se hacen en la actualidad, suponen condenar a los más pobres a ser desalojados de sus fincas o a perder acceso a la tierra, al agua y a otros recursos, según el primer estudio sobre la nueva tendencia de grandes corporaciones y gobiernos de invertir en tierras en países pobres, encargado por las agencias de las Naciones Unidas de la Agricultura y Alimentación y del Desarrollo (FAO y UNDP).
CNN's John Defterios takes a look at how Middle Eastern countries are scouring the globe for farmland.
Mohammed Mbwana, who farms in the Tana River delta area and is an official of a local NGO, said the Qatar agreement would displace thousands of locals. At least 150,000 families in farming and pastoralist communities depend on the land in question, said to be part of Kenya’s biggest wetland.
When the new Land Reform Minister rummaged through his office in Madagascar's capital, he was shocked to discover the documents for a $2-billion deal to lease huge tracts of farmland to an Indian entrepreneur.
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