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Romanian cattle farmers blow their trumpets in front of Romania's Agriculture Ministry during a protest in Bucharest, Romania, 17 November 2011. Almost half of Romania's 22 million citizens live in rural areas, and agriculture generates up to 70 per cent of income in rural areas, says the World Bank. (Photo: Robert Ghement / EPA)
Farmers showed a solidarity and multilingual flag with words of support written on it by fellow La Via Campesina activists (photo: www.coolloud.org)
Farmers gathered in front of Presidential Office to call for due procedure in rectifying the Land Expropriation Act (photo: www.coolloud.org)
Connaissez vos droits... Nina Pederson, du NPA, présente du matériel de sensibilisation sur la nouvelle loi foncière. Photo: Hannah McNeish/IRIN
La grande majorité des habitants du Soudan du Sud dépendent de la terre pour vivre. Photo: Hannah McNeish/IRIN
Bineta Diop. "Depuis les indépendances, on attend toujours que des réformes foncières voient le jour en Afrique. Ce qui n’est pas le cas."
A workman stands in front of an excavator that is clearing land for a palm oil plantation in Malen chiefdom in the Pujehun district of southern Sierra Leone, Oct. 28, 2011. The Sierra Leone plantation of Lichtenstein-based Socfin is one of many such projects in Africa, spurred by global demand for food and biofuels but criticised by some as "land grabs". (Photo: Reuters/Simon Akam)
A workman stands in front of an excavator that is clearing land for a palm oil plantation in Malen chiefdom in the Pujehun district of southern Sierra Leone, Oct. 28, 2011. The Sierra Leone plantation of Lichtenstein-based Socfin is one of many such projects in Africa, spurred by global demand for food and biofuels but criticised by some as "land grabs". (Photo: Reuters/Simon Akam)
"Nous lançons un appel aux décideurs politiques pour qu’ils préservent le patrimoine foncier et culturel des communautés locales et promeuvent l’agriculture familiale pour assurer la souveraineté alimentaire au Cameroun"
"L’accaparement des terres conduit à la destruction des fondements de la vie sociale, économique, culturelle, et à la perturbation des systèmes d’exploitation agricole, source de la sécurité et de la souveraineté alimentaires de notre pays"
"La population du département refuse à ce que l'Etat mauritanien concède les 40.000 ha en question à qui que ce soit"
“There is little in our findings to suggest that the term ‘land grabbing’ is not widely deserved,” says Dr Michael Taylor, who coordinated the study process and co-authored the synthesis report.
Les étrangers ne peuvent pas acheter des terres au Madagascar. Ils peuvent, par contre, avoir accès au foncier par le bail.
One of the machineries used at the farm of Saudi Star used to process rice. The company has paid 80 million dollars for the procurement of machineries from caterpillar which will be delivered by Ries Engineering. There are two rice mills that are going to be erected at Gambella and Bishoftu (Debre Zeity) whose parts bought at a cost of 25 million dollar have arrived.
