Germany

The report of the Potsdam Spring Dialogues 2011 on "Land Policy: A Key Factor in Combating Hunger - The Role of African Regional Organisations" held on 15-16 April 2011 in Germany has just been released.

Global Economic Symposium, to be held 4-6 October in Kiel, Germany, will have a special session on land grabbing.

Qui n’a pas récemment entendu à la radio une publicité vantant les mérites de placements agricoles en Argentine ou en Ukraine de tel ou tel fond d’investissement ?

Who has not recently heard a radio advertisement from one investment fund or another extolling the virtues of agricultural investments in Argentina or the Ukraine?

Pékin a catégoriquement démenti vendredi avoir acheté des terres en Afrique, rejetant comme "infondées" les déclarations d'un responsable allemand selon lequel ces acquisitions présumées aggraveraient la famine qui frappe actuellement l'Ethiopie.

China rejected claims by a German official that it has been buying up land in the drought-ravaged Horn of Africa, saying the allegations are "completely unfounded" and have "ulterior motives".

Selon l'institut d'Oakland, environ 200.000 personnes pourraient être déplacées des 350.000 hectares loués dans le sud-ouest de l'Ethiopie depuis 2008.

Le chargé des affaires africaines du gouvernement allemand, Günther Nooke, met en cause dans un entretien publié jeudi l'achat de terres par la Chine dans la famine qui touche actuellement l'Ethiopie.

The studies that we have seen can prove no link between land purchases and food security, says German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Personal Assitant on African Affairs.

More Southland land has been sold to overseas investors in the past year than at any other time during the past six years.

Since the food and financial crisis in 2008, a race for arable land has started worldwide. States, corporations, banks and funds of rich countries buy up large chunks of land to produce agrofuels and grow crops for food - or just to speculate.

O governo prepara a flexibilização de tais restrições, já que o objetivo é apenas barrar movimento especulativo com a terra brasileira, como a compra de lotes por fundos de investimento ou investidores que não têm foco na produção.