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A paramilitary unit of the Liberia National Police, the Police Support Unit (PSU), was deployed into Jogbahn Clan, District #4, Grand Bassa County, Liberia after residents attempted to halt a survey of their lands by UK-based Equatorial Palm Oil.
Le premier ministère a organisé, le jeudi 19 septembre 2013 à Ouagadougou, une rencontre d’échange et d’information sur l’allocation des 30 000 hectares aménagés de Bagrépôle aux investisseurs.
Under a 50-year plan, Ukraine will initially provide China with at least 100,000 hectares - an area almost the size of Hong Kong - of high-quality farmland in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, mainly for growing crops and raising pigs.
Il est inconcevable, dans un pays qui survit grâce à l’aide alimentaire, d’envisager de produire du riz et autres denrées alimentaires pour l’exportation d’un côté, et d’augmenter la quantité de riz importé de l’autre.
Small scale farmers marched to Parliament on 19 September 2013 to protest against a number of issues including the slow pace of land reform and South Africa"s use of GM maize seed. Photo: Sandiso Phaliso/WCN
Louis Dreyfus Commodities owns and operates more than 180,000 ha of farmland around the world - mostly in Latin America and mostly for sugar cane, oil palm and citrus production.
On September 19, 2013, Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister tabled in parliament two reports from a Commission of Inquiry into Special Agricultural Business Leases. Of the 42 Special Agricultural Business Leases examined by the reports, only four secured consent of local landowners and had viable agricultural projects. (Photo: Livingston Hosea)
The sugar company that took over the villagers' land and farms built a school for the children, but locals say it has not been used as a school for months. There were no students or teachers the afternoon this picture was taken in Kampong province in Cambodia, on Aug. 28, 2013. (Photo: Thomson Reuters Foundation/Thin Lei Win)
Le fonds d'investissement African Agriculture Fund est investi dans des grandes exploitations agricoles au Sierra Leone, en RDC et en Zambie.
Mario Cuitiva, leader of internally displaced families reclaiming the Santa Paula farm, points to a land map of Córdoba department. Montería, Colombia July 2012. (Photo: Stephen Ferry/HRW)
The US's Millennium Challenge Corporation is heavily involved in land privatisation efforts in Burkina Faso and several other African countries, which critics say favour agribusiness.
Brazil has authorized the sale of farmland to foreigners for the first time since 2010, when the country's attorney general imposed limits on foreign land control in one of the world's top producers of agricultural commodities.
MT PEMBER: One of New Zealand's farms – the size of Christchurch – has been sold to a North American investment group.
“Our goal for Cima Coffee Farms is to become the go-to company for anyone looking to purchase premium investment real estate in Latin America,” says James Cummiskey, Managing Director of Tierra Cafetera / CEO Logistics LatinAmerica. “And the good news is we have barely scratched the surface of the potential that's represented in the vast quantity of Latin America farmland awaiting our development and expertise in sustainable improvement.”
In an August 2013 photo, people from the Mursi ethnic group are seen on the road from Hailewuha to Jinka in the South Omo Zone of Ethiopia. "What we want is to use our own traditional way of cultivation," says one Mursi man. (Photo: William Davison)
Boy (13) hugs his little sister after a hard day working in the sugar cane plantations. Chhuk village, Sre Ambel district, Koh Kong, Cambodia. 2013 (Thomas Cristofoletti / Ruom)
The African Agricultural Capital Fund, which is backed by USAID, Bill Gates and JP Morgan, has invested $1.2 million in NUAC, a company owned by several Danish partners that operates Uganda's largest farm in the Northern part of the country. (Photo: USAID)
Ekosem-Agrar GmbH is the German holding company of the Ekoniva Group, one of the largest agricultural companies in Russia. With a herd of 19,000 cows, the company says it holds 1% of Russia's dairy market.
A woman stares out of the window of her home in the village of Farbe, near the site of one of the main seedlings nurseries of the Herakles palm oil farm plantation project in Cameroon, June 8, 2012. (Photo: REUTERS/Emmanuel Braun)
Children from Boeung Kak lake community demand their mothers' release from jail during a protest in Phnom Penh in May. Thirteen Cambodian women were jailed for fighting against a forced eviction. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
"The use of land for growing biofuel feedstocks should not result in the displacement of local and indigenous communities. Special measures to protect indigenous communities’ land therefore need to be introduced." - Amendment 27 to the EU's proposal for a fuel quality directive and renewable energy, adopted on September 11, 2013.
Selon la Banque mondiale, les agrocarburants représentent entre 21% et un tiers des surfaces acquises dans les pays en développement.
