Kenya

Four months before South Sudan becomes an independant nation nine percent of the country has been targeted by investors, a Norwegian People's Aid report reveals.

De plus en plus d’investisseurs accaparent des surfaces cultivables pour la production d’aliments destinés à l’étranger ou la spéculation. Présents au FSM, paysans et ONG organisent la résistance.

L’Italia non è estranea al fenomeno del land grabbing, anche se gli investimenti in terreni riguardano soprattutto aziende cinesi, indiane o saudite.E i gruppi italiani hanno messo le mani su oltre 1,5 milioni di ettari

« Il faudrait créer une commission au niveau de l’ONU qui permettrait à toute victime de l’accaparement des terres de pouvoir porter plainte » selon Ana Maria Suarez de FIAN

Au Kenya, dans certaines régions pastorales, l’acquisition de terres communales par le gouvernement, au profit d’une agriculture intensive irriguée, a entraîné des changements dans le mode de vie des communautés pastorales.

A wikileaks cable discusses the transfer of the Lamu port deal from Qatar to China. Little word about the fate of the 40,0000 ha of farmland promised to Qatar, however.

MMTC, Iffco and Bharti are the latest to find the continent’s land and labour attractive for their agribusiness.

A conference organised by the East Africa Legislative Assembly and the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation has chided East African governments for leasing land to foreigners without the explicit consent of existing users

Antoine Bouhey explique les méfaits de l’accaparement des terres par de grands investisseurs sur les populations locales. Un phénomène qui prend de l’ampleur, notamment en Afrique et en Amérique du Sud.

45 new private equity funds are planning to invest US$2 billion in African agriculture in the next 3-5 years, according to participants at the Africainvestor Agribusiness Project Summit taking place in Durban

African governments need to raise their level of accountability and ensure that they improve and protect their own food security through quid pro quo side-agreements negotiated when they lease or sell their arable land to foreign interests, says Keith Mullin of Thompson Reuters