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This land outside Maputo, Mozambique provides a snapshot of Africa’s agricultural choices: Will its food be produced on small farms or on giant plantations like Bananalandia? (Photo: National Geographic)
Suzanne Ouedraogo, une agricultrice du Burkina Faso : son gouvernement est exhorté à transformer et absorber les systèmes fonciers et agricoles coutumiers dans des marchés de type occidental. Qui en bénéficiera ? (Photo : Pablo Tosco/Oxfam)
O governo de Moçambique prometeu sistematicamente cessar a distribuição de sementes não melhoradas gratuitas, exceto em situações de emergência. Como serão afetados os agricultores como este homem de Chimoio? (Fotografia: Indymedia)
Anuak children in Gorom Refugee Camp in South Sudan. Many Anuak fled Ethiopia during a government relocation campaign called "villagization". (Photo: Andreea Campeanu/ICIJ)
CITIC is involved in deals for farmland overseas and in China, where it is pursuing the consolidation and leasing of peasant lands through land trusts in partnership with the transnational pesticide and seed company Bayer AG.
The San Diego County Employees Retirement Association has already made substantial investments in farmland in the US, Brazil and Australia through the Brookfield Brazil Agriland Fund and the Hancock Agricultural Investment Group,
Accaparements des terres : Les paysans debout contre les arrestations accusent Bolloré de double jeu
Palm oil plantations are spreading across Africa as global demand for the crop grows. (Photo: Bloomberg)
A former Chinese soldier now farming in Zambia with a village elder, Zambia 2008. (Photo: Solange Guo Chatelard)
Children sitting on the Omo River bank which is slightly cracked due to the lowering of water level. Gibe III Dam, Africa's Tallest Dam with installed capacity of 1870 MW which is under construction, is said to impact 500,000 Ethiopians and Kenyans relying their lives on Omo River and Lake Turkana. The lowering of water level and the change of water salinity may especially impact aboriginal tribes who already live in severe drought and poverty, and may end the fragile peace between tribes. (Photo: Alamy)
An armed Turkana man on the shore of Lake Turkana. Locals fear the completion of the Gibe III dam could exacerbate tension in the region between Kenyans and Ethiopians. (Photo: Siegfried Modola/Reuters)
North Cotabato Gov. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza with an official of Univanich Palm Oil visiting the site of the mill that the Thai company is constructing. (Photo: Newsdesk)
Des villageois protestent contre une compagnie chinoise qu’ils accusent d’accaparer illégalement leurs terres. REUTERS/Samrang Pring
Leaders from communities affected by oil palm plantations in the Congo Basin want community land tenure rights to be recognised and secured. (Photo: Reuters)
Des manifestants qui protestent contre l'accaparement de leurs terres, le 2 septembre 2014, devant la Bourse du travail de Bamako. RFI/David Baché
Jakob Pouch says his community in Gambella hasn’t benefited from a nearby commercial farm. (Photo: William Davison)
Harvesting rice at Saudi Star’s farm investment in Gambella. The company says it is trying to ensure that local communities benefit from the operation.(Photo: William Davison)
