• I privati della terra
    • il manifesto
    • 06 June 2010

    La corsa alle terre d’Etiopia è il fenomeno che coinvolge tutta l’Africa.

  • Rapport sur les progrès en Afrique 2010
    • AFDI
    • 06 June 2010

    L’Africa Progress Panel, un groupe indépendant présidé par Koffi Annan, s’inquiète de l’augmentation des acquisitions massives de terre qui risquent d’aggraver encore l’insécurité alimentaire en Afrique et juge important « de veiller à ce que ces transactions soient équitables et transparentes et de concevoir des garanties efficaces dans la législation nationale ».

  • تدمير طبقة الفلاحين في العالم بطريقة “مسؤولة
    • Project Syndicate
    • 04 June 2010

    بروكسل ـ مؤخراً قام البنك الدولي، ومنظمة الأمم المتحدة للأغذية والزراعة (الفاو)، والصندوق الدولي للتنمية الزراعية (إيفاد)، وسكرتارية مؤتمر الأمم المتحدة للتجارة والتنمية (الأونكتاد)، بتقديم “سبعة مبادئ للاستثمار الزراعي المسؤول”. وتسعى هذه المبادئ السبعة إلى ضمان استفادة كافة الأطراف من الاستثمارات الواسعة النطاق في الأراضي، فيستفيد المستثمرون وتعود الفائدة على المجتمعات بشكل مباشر. ولكن على الرغم من النوايا الحسنة فإن هذه المبادئ غير كافية إلى حد مفجع.

  • Responsibly destroying the world’s peasantry
    • Project Syndicate
    • 04 June 2010

    World Bank and UN's seven Principles for Responsible Agricultural Investment are "woefully inadequate" says UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food.

  • SilverStreet Fund focuses on agriculture in Africa
    • Institutional Investor
    • 04 June 2010

    SilverStreet is scouting for commercial farms in five countries — Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

  • Unlocking Sub-Saharan Africa’s agricultural potential
    • World Bank
    • 04 June 2010

    World Bank's MIGA provides political risk insurance for Chayton Capital's $50 million farmland investments in southern Africa.

  • “Food estates” in West Papua raise fears of systematic marginalization
    • WPAT
    • 04 June 2010

    These planned food estates will deprive Papuans of their traditional resources for hunting and fishing and destroy the very basis of their livelihoods.

  • Land investments are wholesale sell-outs for women farmers
    • Pambazuka
    • 03 June 2010

    With the emerging land investments a new set of challenges emerges for the woman farmer.

  • Les investissements fonciers sont une vaste trahison des agricultrices
    • Pambazuka
    • 03 June 2010

    En privant effectivement les paysans locaux de leurs terres et en perpétuant souvent « des méthodes agricoles nuisibles à l’environnement », cette évolution menace d’avoir des conséquences très négatives pour les petits exploitants, et en particulier les femmes

  • Russia fights for world dominance—in wheat
    • Bloomberg
    • 03 June 2010

    By 2008 global grain prices were reaching record levels, and Swedish, British, Chinese, and Korean investors were piling into Russian farmland.

  • Abu Dhabi looks to Sudan to secure food supply
    • Financial Times
    • 03 June 2010

    Abu Dhabi is preparing to launch a large-scale agricultural project in Sudan to develop more than 70,000 acres of land as part of the oil-rich Gulf emirate's efforts to secure food supplies.

  • Greens claim conflict of interest in Crafar sale
    • NZ Herald
    • 03 June 2010

    A lawyer advising the NZ Government how to make it easier to sell assets overseas is working for the Chinese company wanting to buy the Crafar farms, the Green Party says.

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