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.

L’accaparement des terres en Afrique : le rôle de la Chine
Conférence-débat, le 3 mai 2012, à Bruxelles
Lieu : Centre culturel de Watermael-Boisfort
Intervenant : Laurent Delcourt, Cetri

Conférence-débat avec Olivier De Schutter (ONU), Xavier Delwarte (FUGEA), Florence Kroff (FIAN int.)
Quand ? 03/05/2012 de 20:00 à 22:30
Où ? Espace Delvaux, rue Grates, 3, 1170 Bruxelles, 02/672.14.39
La Vénerie : www.lavenerie.be

Learn about the reality of land grabs in Africa, based on extensive research and advocacy conducted by the Oakland Institute.

Over 1000, 1-percenters are meeting at Waldorf Astoria (April 23-25), for a major farmland investment event that will decide the fate of millions of Africans.
Dubbed as “the next big thing in finance” some of the largest hedge funds, private equity groups, university endowment managers, and other high rollers will meet to discuss how to continue to make money from food and water shortages. The event is organized by HighQuest Partners, a heavy hitter in the hedge fund market of big agro, bio-tech and bio-fuel companies. Entrance fee to attend is a mere $3,000.
These money managers are there because they are promised to make more than 25% return on investments in areas of the world where there exists incredible food insecurity. In 2009 only, nearly 60 million hectares of arable land – an area the size of France – was purchased or leased, 70 percent of it in Africa. It’s impossible to acquire that much of land without the continued taking of land previously held by small indigenous farmers. That number has only been increasing as more and more land has been leased off to companies and governments in Africa – by corrupt dictators, that have no moral qualms about displacing millions from their ancestral lands. On their website, HighQuest partners brag about representing $3.5 trillion in aggregated institutional assets and 25 million acres under cultivation in 2011 alone. This year they are expecting to double. BTW 25 million acres is the size of Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts combined together, OR 11 times the size of Yellowstone National Park.
Please join in solidarity with food justice activists, Environmental ORGs, OWS groups, African students and communities in exposing these cabal of evil doers -that their “next big thing in finance” is nothing more than the next financial bubble with far more ill-consequences for humanity and the planet.

Day of Action: April 24 2012
Where: The Waldorf-Astoria
301 Park Avenue. NY, NY
10:30am