The International Peasant Conference taking place in Mali against land grabbing aims to build a concrete action plan to stop this phenomenon, said Thomas Ouana, from the National Union of Mozambican Peasant Farmers (UNAC) in an interview with Real World Radio.
Lack of coordination between land different authorities has been cited as among the factors contributing to land grab in Tanzania.
Peasant movements concur that in the absence of control over their lands, real food sovereignty is impossible.
Brazil's government is working on a new rule to further limit the purchase of farm land by foreigners, arguing that the current legislation has been "insufficient".
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More than 250 participants from thirty different countries gather in Mali for the first International farmers’ conference to stop land grabbing.
"Hot issue" session organsied by the FAO at the Bonn 2011 Nexus Conference focuses on ways and means to make large-scale land lease and acquisitions work for food security
Report analyses the current trend of agricultural land investments in Mali, revealing that by the end of 2010 at least 544,567 hectares of fertile land have been leased or were under negotiation for lease in Mali.
A fierce debate is currently taking place concerning huge tracts of Tanzanian land which U.S. investors are seeking to develop. Tens of thousands of former refugees now farm the land.
Report says largescale foreign agri-investment offers 'few solutions to the poverty and hunger plaguing the country'
Minutes from the Karuturi Global Limited Q2 FY2012 results conference call.
Tianjin State Farms Agribusiness Group has rented 20 000 decares of land in Bulgaria's Northwestern Region to produce corn, forage, and sunflower for export.
Company which controls a quarter of a million acres of West African agricultural land approached by two Pan African banking groups, seeking to partner and support them in the development of their farm land in Central Guinea.
