The Uganda Land Alliance (ULA) has observed that unfair government policies and ignorance of land rights and values have escalated the problem of land grabbing by investors in the country.
A new report by European Coordination Via Campesina and Hands off the Land network shows that land grabbing and access to land are a critical issues today in Europe.
Ce rapport révèle le scandale tenu secret que seulement 3% des propriétaires terriens sont arrivés à contrôler la moitié des terres cultivables en Europe.
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A new Swedwatch report shows a lack of transparency and inadequate auditing of ethics and environmental impacts in AP2’s investment in farmland in Brazil. For business reasons, the investment is surrounded by a high level of secrecy, which makes scrutiny from the outside impossible.
Pressed on which countries in Africa would be suitable food sources, Hisham Abdullah Al Shirawi, the chairman of Economic Zones World, says the test would be countries where water was in abundance and which were not spoilt by strife.
As part of a trend that is accelerating across Africa, thousands of Cameroonians have been displaced from their homelands to make way for large-scale agribusiness projects.
"Si la tendance continue en dix ans aucune terre arable ne sera disponible au Sénégal", selon Alpha Ba, membre du Groupe d’études et de recherches genre et sociétés de l’Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis.
Indigenous peasant families in northern Guatemala are struggling to access land and defend their resources as the basis of their collective identity.
President Omar Al-Beshir has made orders for removal of all impediments and facilitation of the procedures for Saudi Arabian investors aiming to produce food in Sudan, including through land leases
The "land grabbing" in Africa and elsewhere often triggers conflict, an underreported financial risk, says Samuel Nguiffo
Prime Minister John Key has told Chinese officials that foreign ownership of farmland is a sensitive issue in New Zealand.