“The threat of 'land grabbing’ has reminded us how vital access to land is for 500 million food-insecure households around the world,” says Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food.
« Sans consensus international, d’autres instruments chercheront à combler les lacunes, comme ceux déjà mis au point unilatéralement par des fonds d’investissement privés,» a averti Olivier De Schutter.
Il Corno d’Africa è afflitto dalla più grave tragedia umanitaria che la sua storia ricordi. Siccità e fame, 12 milioni di persone senza cibo né acqua. Ma il “neocolonialismo agricolo” procede indisturbato.
- Il Fatto Alimentare
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08 September 2011
Olivier De Schutter, Rapporteur spécial des Nations Unies sur le droit à l'alimentation, et Prof. Harald von Witzke, Faculté de l'agriculture et de l'horticulture, Université Humboldt de Berlin.
A new report is released this week to coincide with the forthcoming international conference on the global land grab to be held at IDS, University of Sussex.
Un reportage au Bénin et à Rome de André Zaleski et Patrice Hardy de la Radio Télévision Belge Francophone
The G-20 could call for a moratorium on large-scale agriculture investments until an agreement on appropriate ground rules is reached, says Olivier DeSchutter
- Project Syndicate
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28 January 2011
Access to land and security of tenure are essential for the enjoyment of the
right to food.
Accelerating the shift towards large-scale, highly mechanized forms of agriculture will not solve the problem of hunger: it will make it worse.
Céder des terres aux investisseurs résultera en un type d’exploitation agricole dont l’impact, en termes de réduction de la pauvreté, est bien moindre que si on améliorait l’accès des communautés agricoles locales à la terre
Efforts must be made to ensure that foreign access to local agricultural lands follow strict guidelines
- Business Insight
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26 November 2010
DeSchutter says he never thought it was a good idea to endorse the World Bank's proposal on landgrabs.
- swissinfo.ch
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01 November 2010