The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa urged African leaders to resist the corporate industrialization of African agriculture which will result in massive land grabs, and for the issue to be raised at the upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen.
Pour équilibrer leurs comptes, les fonds spéculatifs et les fonds souverains raflent des millions de terres arables et cultivables dans les Pays ACP (Afrique, Caraïbes, Pacifique) et dans les PED (Pays En Développement).
La extensión de lo que ha sido calificado por el director de la FAO, Jacques Diouf, como un "sistema neocolonial", constituye el avance de un peldaño en la aplicación de la visión global de libre mercado que ha prevalecido en las últimas décadas en la política alimentaria mundial, la cual convierte las necesidades alimentarias de la población en una inmensa oportunidad de negocios privados.
Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi, managing director of Karuturi Global Ltd was conferred with the award for business excellence in agribusiness in Africa by Corporate Council on Africa, for the year 2009.
While Dominion Farms is honored that Business Week saw our company as a global front runner in doing business in Africa, we are disheartened by the lack of commitment to the true story of Dominion Farms.
L'Ethiopie sera à l'honneur d'un des premiers reportages de la nouvelle émission Terre d'enquête de la chaîne de télévision privée française M6
South Korea, through the Korean Economic Development Fund, has extended a $50 million (about Sh65 billion) loan to the Rufiji Basin Development Authority (Rubada). About 100,000 hectares of land have been set aside for modern rice farming under the project.
Over the next couple of weeks we will see a level of political frenzy let loose on the international stage.
22. Stresses that farmland acquisition by foreign investors, particularly in Africa, must not have an adverse impact on local food security or lead to unsustainable land use; points out that it may also have positive effects by bringing land into productive use; urges the FAO and the Member States to work towards common rules and legislative proposals which recognise the right of local people in every country to control farmland and other natural resources vital to their food security;
Inversores árabes y asiáticos buscan tomar el control de amplias extensiones de tierras fértiles en Sudán, el país más grande de África, que quiere convertirse en el granero de Oriente Medio, aunque para ello deberá modernizar primero su agricultura.
Developed nations attempt to secure supplies of food and biofuels to mitigate the impacts of climate change on the food and energy security of their populations, Khadija Sharife writes in this week’s Pambazuka News
