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Vendredi 24 octobre 2014, les représentants des communautés issues de 5 pays (Cameroun, Cambodge, Libéria, Côte d’Ivoire et Sierra Leone) touchées par les accaparements de terre ont rendez-vous à Paris avec le groupe Bolloré pour entamer les négociations.
Rabo Farm, Poleko Budownictwo and Van Kessel Sport en Cultuurtechniek sign letter of intent for farmland investment during the state visit of the Dutch King and Queen to Poland, June 2014.
SUCOMA is owned by the China National Complete Import and Export Corporation Group (COMPLANT), whose largest shareholder is the State Development & Investment Corporation. Its Madagascar sugar operations involve 10,000 ha for sugar cane plantations. Above, negotiations to resolve a strike at SUCOMA's Morondava unit. (Photo: Midi Madagasikara)
On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 the residents of Twiga Farm marched through the streets of Nairobi to hand in a petition to the National Assembly. Their demand was an investigation in the unlawful eviction from their lands, the Twiga Farm, and recognition of their right to return.
"The buzz has actually been agricultural investment conferences, where about one tenth of the people seem to be people I recognize from the hedge fund circuit," says Stuart MacDonald, managing director at the Hamburg, Germany-based Aquila Capital.
Une nouvelle vague d’investissement menace de chasser les paysans de leurs terres et porte atteinte à la souveraineté alimentaire. (Photo : Cargo Collective)
Chinese investors have signed an expression of interest with Saravan provincial authorites in Lao to pour more than US$80 million into 20,000 ha of banana plantations for export to China. (Photo: Altijd Verder)
Speaking at the Africa Global Business Forum in Dubai, Nigerian businessman Aliko Dangote said his companies have entered into a tie-up with Investment Corp. of Dubai that "could run into billions of dollars" and that involves ventures in agriculture.
Farmers held a demonstration at a branch of the ANZ Royal Bank in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on October 1, 2014 to protest against the bank’s financing of sugar plantations.
Des manifestations seront également organisées dans d’autres villes du globe, comme Washington, New Delhi et Dakar. (Photo : manifestation contre la BM à Cancun en 2010, par Jorge Silva/Reuters)
Les trois fonds US – Park Street Capital, Wexford Capital et Point State Capital – envoient « un signal » que la valeur des terres a cessé de s’apprécier et que le temps serait venu de vendre avant que les prix ne se mettent à chuter.
President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's talks with Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in Ankara in September 2014. Immediately after the visit, the CEO of Qatar's state-owned Hassad Food Company, Nasser Bin Mohammed al-Hajri, was sent to Ankara under firm instructions by Qatar's emir to make an agricultural investment of $500 million in Turkey.
« Depuis 2012, nous avons perçu dans nos statistiques un fléchissement mais il faut davantage de vigilance parce que la demande de terres à travers le monde va être de plus en plus forte », souligne le Dr Madiodio Niasse, le directeur de l’International Land Coalition (ILC).
Un paysan malien victime d'accaparement des terres lors d'une manifestation le 2 septembre 2014. RFI/David Baché
"Vamos a seguir defendiendo el legítimo derecho del pueblo garífuna a vivir en sus tierras. ¡Ya no queremos saber nada de palma africana!” (Foto: Giorgio Trucchi)
