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Sous la tente précaire qui leur sert de quartier général, Mastum, meneur des paysans floués par la PTPN 7, explique qu'ils sont prêt à tout pour retrouver de la terre à cultiver. (Photo : Patrick Piro)
A Colombian rice farmer. Millions of hectares of land have been abandoned or stolen since 1991. (Photo: Jeremy Horner/Corbis)
"Vamos deter o ProSAVANA, porque o que os três governos estão a fazer não serve os camponeses, promove a mercantilização da agricultura, da terra e do homem", disse no encontro o oficial de advocacia e cooperação da UNAC, Vicente Adriano.
Mikhail Orlov (second right), founder of Black Earth Farms, was among the first to start attracting funds from foreign investors into Russia's agricultural market. Orlov then shifted focus to Zambia, but has now returned to Russia to build a 4,800 cow dairy farm in Chechnya. (Photo: Press Photo)
«Nous avons des projets en Afrique, notamment au Soudan, en Ethiopie, au Kenya, en Tanzanie et au Mozambique. Notre idée est d’aller dans ces pays qui nous offrent des terres agricoles et beaucoup d’eau,» explique Issaâd Rebrab, P-DG du groupe Cevital.
Activist Naw Ohn Hla, front right, argues with Burmese police officers during a protest march over land (Photo: AP).
Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete says hoarding large chunks of land without developing them for years retards national development and impoverishes subsistence farmers.
Tratores muito raramente são usados ??na agricultura moçambicana (na foto, a empresa OLAM International prepara campos de cultivo em Mopeia, na Zambézia)
O ProSavana será implementado numa zona onde predomina a agricultura tradicional (na foto: produção de arroz em Mopeia, província da Zambézia)
The film No Land No Food No Life examines the challenges and struggles farmers face despite the exultation they experience in their fight to retain control of their land.
Representada pela Plataforma Provincial da Sociedade Civil de Nampula (PPOSC-N), a sociedade civil emitiu um comunicado de Imprensa onde veementemente volta a “atacar” o Governo e a manifestar-se contra a implementação do programa por considerá-lo inviável para as comunidades locais que, por sinal, poderão perder as suas terras, que garantem a sua sustentabilidade para farmeiros brasileiros.
In 2007, meat-to-football tycoon Clemens Tönnies (above), head of Germany's biggest pork processor the Tönnies meat group, established the Sojuz Group, which fattens pigs and grows mainly feed crops over 45,000 hectares in western Russia, near the Ukraine border. Tönnies is also chairman of the Schalke 04 football club, seven times winners of Germany's top football league, whose sponsors include Gazprom, the Russian energy giant. (Photo: Bernd Thissen)
Sugar rush – a worker carries a crate of Coca-Cola at the local dealer in Jammu, India. The soft drinks producer is the world’s largest buyer of sugar. (Photo: Reuters)
Activists have called for the exclusion of Cambodian sugar from duty-free treatment in Europe, saying that it triggers corporate land grabs. Above, a worker harvesting sugar at a Phnom Penh Sugar plantation. (Photo: Thomas Cristofoletti)
Cargill bought a large area of farming land in Colombia many times bigger than the legal limit by setting up dozens of "shell companies", violating the spirit of agrarian reform laws, Oxfam said in a report released on 27 September 2013. (Photo: Reuters)
Selon Bizualem Bekele, un directeur du ministère de l'agriculture en Ethiopie, "même Karuturi n'a pas pu développer plus de 5 000 ha." (Photo: Petterik Wiggers)
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board launched its agriculture investment program in 2013, and made its first direct farmland investment in a portfolio of U.S. farmland.
