A three-day campaign called “Land Under Siege,” consisting of a teach-in, a Mass. Hall rally and an organiser training event, was organized by Harvard Undergraduates for Environmental Justice.

Les pressions pour ouvrir le marché foncier au Brésil proviennent principalement de Chine.

Environmentalists and communities fear the consequences of changing 2010 foreign ownership regulations on farmland.

Mozambique's national peasant organisation UNAC dissociates itself from a press release issued by the Civil Society Platforms of the provinces of Nampula, Zambezia and Niassa, in relation to the Master Plan of the Prosavana programme.

Brazil's land issues secretary says his government will seek to classify the occupation of farmland by landless workers movements as akin to terrorism, while at the same time offering to support foreign investors interested in buying farmland.

Le nouveau gouvernement brésilien souhaite modifier le droit pour que les envahissements de terrains agricoles par des paysans "sans terres" soient considérés comme du terrorisme, a déclaré aujourd'hui un responsable du ministère de l'Agriculture.

Pour les défenseurs des peuples autochtones, ce transfert de compétences dans la démarcation des terres revient à livrer les territoires ancestraux à l'appétit de l'agrobusiness.

Harvard University, the US pension fund manager TIAA/Nuveen and Japan's Mitsui are among the foreign companies buying up Brazilian farmlands that are responsible for over 420,000 ha of deforestation in the Cerrado since 2000.

Los nexos entre el delito, la corrupción y quienes están involucrados en negocios que acaparan tierras agrícolas son reales.

Aurélio Pavinato, CEO of SLC Agrícola SA, says the potential to expand soybean, grains and sugarcane plantations on 43 million hectares in the Cerrado region will "demand heavy investments".

A nossa conferência permitiu-nos igualmente partilhar casos de resistência a este tipo de programas de imposição agrícola e mostramos experiências concretas de agroecologia em Moçambique, Brasil e Japão.

Declaration by the peasants’ movements and civil society organizations from Mozambique, Brazil and Japan at the 4th Triangular Peoples’ Conference against ProSAVANA in Tokyo