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Ms. Leweke von Hoff, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at Amatheon Agri shows the Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Hon. Tress Bucyanayandi, some of Amatheon activities in Uganda (Photo: Red Pepper)
Community land in Sinoe County, including grave sites and sacred forest areas, have been cleared and planted by Golden Veroleum, without the communities’ free, prior and informed consent. Golden Veroleum is affiliated to Golden Agri-Resources (GAR), a large Indonesian palm oil company. (Photo: Justin Kenrick/FPP)
The Austrian count, Andreas von Bardeau, has used his political relations and financial power, to grab agricultural lands from the western and central counties of Romania, abusing the land rights of hundreds of peasants in the process. (Image: Eco Ruralis)
Participants at the Roundtable on responsible investment, hosted by the Dutch embassy in Riyadh, January 20, 2015
Vice-présidente d’Enda Tiers Monde, Mariam Sow milite contre l’accaparement des terres au Sénégal et en faveur d’une agriculture familiale.
La Chine est désormais la nationalité détenant le plus de propriétaires en Bordelais, devançant désormais la Belgique.
Saudi-owned company Beyti, in which Almarai owns 52%, intends to pump EGP 4bn in new investments to Egypt to establish a new juice plant and two milk farms. Beyti is a subsidiary of the International Company for Dairy and Juice, and is also 48% owned by Pepsico. In the same period, Almarai plans to establish a mid-size farm with 5,000 cows for milk, and another major 20,000 cow milk farm that will be "the largest" in Egypt.(Image: Bidness ETC)
Karine Berger, députée au Parlement français : "Quand certains pays rachètent en masse des terres agricoles, ce n’est pas de la spéculation proprement dit puisque c’est une opération d’achat légale… Mais certains, les utilisent, à terme, de manière détournée en spéculant sur les changements climatiques."
Tanzania's then minister for Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development, Prof Anna Tibaijuka, listens to Kapunga Rice Project Limited managing director Justin Vermaak when she visited the farms in Mbarali. (Photo: The Citizen)
« Il ne faut pas confondre la sécurisation de l’investissement privé du transfert définitif de propriété. La terre peut être sécurisée sans transfert définitif de propriété. »
An aerial photo showing the contrast between forest and agricultural landscapes near Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil.(Photo: Kate Evans/CIFOR).
"In Nigeria, Mozambique and here in Tanzania smallholder farmers are being moved off their land to make way for sugarcane, rice and other crop-growing projects which are being backed by New Alliance money," says Yaekob Metena.
Marième Sow, du Cadre de réflexion et d'action sur le foncier au Sénégal (CRAFS), en février 2014 (Photo: GRAIN)
Ce projet agricole sera principalement axé sur la culture des oignons et des pommes de terre, avec pour mission essentielle de réaliser l’autosuffisance alimentaire pour le marché mauritanien d’ici les trois prochaines années.
