The Chiefs and Landowners of Torgorme in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region, Ghana want lands back that were taken under an irrigation Project of the Ghana-Millennium Development Agency.
- Ghanaian Times
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21 September 2022
In Sri Lanka, where the state formally owns an estimated 85 percent of the country’s 6.6 million hectares of land, there is legitimate concern that the proposed US-funded project, the MCC compact would shift control of these lands towards private interests.
- Oakland Institute
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17 August 2020
Au Sri Lanka, une circulaire protégeant des milliers d’hectares de forêt pourrait être levée. Officiellement, le but est destiné à soutenir les petits paysans. Mais ce projet s’inscrit dans un contexte moins glorieux où l’on retrouve des multinationales US bien décidées à privatiser aux quatre coins du monde des terres qui échappent à leur appétit vorace.
- Investig’Action
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09 August 2020
The Oakland Institute, independent policy think tank based in the US, in a recent report said the compact between Sri Lanka and the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) could potentially shift millions of hectares of land in the country into private control
Nationalists want land issues to be handled independently by Sri Lanka because of fears that the MCC will be used to grab land for foreign investments, as has happened in Africa.
- Daily Express
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30 June 2020
In response to resistance from people’s movements, Sri Lanka has pulled out of MCC agreement, which would have opened the door for commercial agriculture and large scale acquisition of Sri Lankan lands for foreign individuals and corporations.
- LVC South Asia
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21 May 2020
The land projects envisaged in the agreement to receive US$480 million grant from the Millennium Challenge Corporation of the United States will enhance tenure security and tradability of land for smallholders, women, and firms.
- Daily Mirror
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06 July 2019
Le gouvernement cherche à remettre à plat le registre national du foncier et le cadre juridique dont les investisseurs ont besoin pour financer le secteur agricole
Vers un bouleversement des pratiques agricoles paysannes ?
Os países do G-8 querem assumir a terra do continente africano, exportando suas tecnologias e ignorando qualquer conhecimento agroecológico.
Le lobby qui cherche à industrialiser la production alimentaire en Afrique modifie aussi la législation semencière et foncière pour qu'elle serve les intérêts de l'industrie agroalimentaire.
- AFSA/GRAIN
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22 January 2015
The lobby to industrialise food production in Africa is changing seed and land laws across the continent to serve agribusiness corporations.
- AFSA/GRAIN
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22 January 2015