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EPO bulldozer, Grand Bassa County: community resistance began in 2012, as they became aware the company planned a plantation covering 20,000 hectares.
Ana Paula Taucale, vice president of UNAC, at the launch of the No to ProSavana campaign (Photo: Amos )
Digital registration of land risks reinforcing women's unequal access to ownership and control of land, but with sensitivity to realities on the ground – such as recording the name of the person who farms the land rather than the person who owns it – it could offer the chance to record women's rightful access. (Photo: V. Maximov/FAO)
Tim Hornibrook, head of Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management, obtained sensitive details about a competitor's profits, fee structure and returns by posing as a wealthy investor.
Il n'y a pas que les bonnes bouteilles françaises qui suscitent la convoitise. Fin 2013, un fonds de pension belge a acquis 250 hectares de grandes cultures type blé ou betterave, à cheval sur le Nord-Pas-de-Calais et la Picardie.
Alcides Raméon Ramírez, a member of one of 200 peasant families fighting to defend their land in Curuguaty, Paraguay. Eighty percent of the country's land is in the hands of just two percent of landowners. (Photo: Pablo Tosco/Oxfam Intermon)
Land ahoy: Cargill Australia managing director Phillippa Purser says foreign investment in agribusiness and farmland is important. (Photo: WeeklyTimesNow)
37 villages in the Ndiael region of Senegal are strongly resisting the Senhuile project, whose director general was just fired and arrested for allegedly stealing funds from the project (Photo: Wetlands International)
Le DG de Senhuile Benjamin Dummai (à droite) avec le DG de la SAED à Colona, Richard Toll, le 12 avril 2014. (Source: vidéo de Ndar Buzz)
"Les petites unités paysannes ne peuvent se maintenir et se développer que si le développement des très grandes entreprises est stoppé. Leur coexistence pacifique est un mythe."
Villagers of Rebi village in Aru, Indonesia state their opposition to a massive sugar cane plantation project. Translation: We oppose!! PT Menara Group in Rebi's forest (Photo: Selwyn Moran)
