Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP) partners are currently documenting the scope and impact of large-scale foreign investments in agriculture that is displacing communities in rural areas in Mindanao (Philippines), Indonesia, Sarawak (Malaysia) and other places in Asia. The outcome of this documentation will be used by local partners in their campaigning and strategising at the national level. The national strategy building is important as land deals are brokered and land laws are amended or enacted at the national level. Thus, approaches and strategies on how to create pressure points for policy makers need to be developed. At the regional level, there will be a strategy-building process where the platform is opened to other organisations from other countries. Experiences from the three focus countries will be shared as well to other communities that are facing similar situation e.g., Cambodia, Laos, Pakistan, India, etc. The regional strategy building is set to take place in Penang, Malaysia on July 19-20, 2012. Affected communities will be invited to the strategy building. It will also be opened to groups which are working on the issue and are willing to collaborate with PAN AP and its partners. Collective campaign plans at regional level are expected to emerge from this meeting, as well as exchanges of strategies on campaigning and raising awareness on land grabbing that have worked for other communities.

La Via Campesina et la Campagne mondiale pour la Réforme agraire - Jakarta, Indonésie, 9-16 juillet 2012

La Via Campesina et la Campagne mondiale pour la Réforme agraire - en appliquant la méthodologie d'un atelier- séminaire international sur la Mise en oeuvre d'une Réforme agraire au XXIème siècle - souhaiterait analyser le contexte mondial actuel, la dynamique et les demandes locales à propos de la crise de l'agriculture afin de pouvoir arriver à une vue d'ensemble claire et commune ainsi qu'à un agenda dans le but de mettre en oeuvre une réforme agraire qui devra inclure la souveraineté alimentaire, l'agro-écologie, la biodiversité et les intérêts des femmes et des jeunes. Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI) accueillera l'atelier et le séminaire avec la participation des membres de LVC ainsi que d'autres mouvements sociaux, de chercheurs progressistes et de nos alliés.

The International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD) Annual Thematic Conference at the University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany, 4-6 July 2012, is on “The Food Crisis: Implications for Decent Work in Rural and Urban Areas”. There will be several panels on land grabbing and the financialisation of food and agriculture.

Emission de Metropolis sur ARTE (FR/DE) - 30-6-2012 - 14:45

ENDA PRONAT et ses partenaires à RIO+20 vous invitent, le 19 juin 2012, 11h30-13h30.
Déroulement de la session :
- Présentation du programme
- Accaparement des terres au Sénégal : problématique et enjeux
- Film sur l’accaparement des terres au Sénégal, Mali et au Burkina
- Témoignage du Bénin (Synergie Paysanne) et du Mali
- Discussion-échanges
- Synthèse et fin
Voir l'affiche pour plus de détails.

A day-long Colloquium : 11 June 2012, 9:00 to 18:00 hrs

2012 will be a big year for the study of global land grabbing. After a few years dominated by important reports from NGOs and the media, as well as initial scoping studies from some academics, the first batch of academic studies that are empirically fresh and theoretically rigorous is finally coming out.

Location: International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Kortenaerkade 12, The Hague, Netherlands
Download the invitation and programme: http://www.tni.org/sites/www.tni.org/files/11_june_2012_colloquium_programme_final.pdf

Forum sur la problématique et les enjeux d’une politique foncière au Sénégal : ENDA PRONAT renforce sa mobilisation contre l’accaparement des terres. Il aura lieu le 29 mai 2012, à la Maison de la Culture Douta SECK, avenue Blaise Diagne, Médina-Dakar à partir de 09H00. Il sera présidé par M. Benoît Joseph SAMBOU, ministre de l’Agriculture et de l’Équipement rural. Voir le site web pour plus de détails.

Este viernes, 25 de mayo DÍA DE ÁFRICA, nos dirigimos al Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y Cooperación para entregar las firmas recogidas en todo el Estado en contra del acaparamiento de tierras y otros recursos naturales, que expulsa a las comunidades locales de sus tierras y de sus mares.

"What could the financial sector be doing to increase global food security? This is the question which drives the Euromoney Food & Finance Conference. We have brought together a group of sovereign agencies who have been mandated and funded to develop food security for their nations – they need innovative financial structures, cross-border investment advice, risk quantification, risk transfer, price and market modelling and much much more." Panel IV is on landgrabbing.

The GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies organises an international conference on large-scale agricultural investments on 11 May 2012 in Hamburg, Germany.