• Colonialisme 2.0
    • Dossier Economic
    • 05 January 2009

    Les organitzacions no governamentals pensen que la compra de terres per part d’inversors estrangers reforça aquest model industrial, amb el qual estan en desacord. «L’alimentació al món avui dia no és un problema de quantitat sinó d’accés».

  • Activists say 'land grab' in poor nations driven by global trends
    • AFP
    • 04 January 2009

    Walden Bello said that many of the deals were struck in dysfunctional and corruption-ridden nations, and rejected claims the land being signed away is of poor quality, and that the projects will bring jobs and improve infrastructure. “What we’re talking about is private parties using state contracts to enrich themselves,” he said. “It’s an intersection of corrupt governments and land-hungry nations.”

  • U.S. firm to invest in agriculture in South Sudan
    • Sudan Tribune
    • 03 January 2009

    A privately held US investment firm entered into an agricultural investment with a company controlled by the son of a South Sudanese general.

  • Affaire Daewoo : l’opposition malgache attaque l’État
    • CLICANOO.com
    • 30 December 2008

    Visiblement, le dossier semble encore bien opaque aux yeux de la presse locale et des habitants, qui s’interrogent sur les bénéfices réels d’une telle opération pour leur pays. Confrontés à une médiatisation internationale, le gouvernement et Daewoo seraient-ils en train de revoir leur copie sur les conditions et l’ampleur du contrat ?

  • Affaire Daewoo : L’opposition attaque l’État
    • L'Express de Madagascar
    • 30 December 2008

    Battant le fer tant qu’il est chaud, l’opposition continue son chassé-croisé avec l’État. Elle compte porter plainte contre l’État dans l’affaire de vente de terrains à la société coréenne Daewoo.

  • Pétition : "Affaire Daewoo"
    • Dawn
    • 29 December 2008

    Cette « location » de terres malgaches pour 99 ans - renouvelable - par Daewoo est inacceptable

  • Corporate farming and food security
    • Dawn
    • 29 December 2008

    As investment-starved Pakistan puts its 1.1 million acres of agriculture land on the auction block next year, farmers wonder what it would mean for food security and social fabric of the country.

  • Ora la crisi scatena la caccia alla terra
    • La Stampa
    • 27 December 2008

    Una volta ci sarebbero state guerre su guerre, oggi, invece, la partita si gioca sui campi di grano e non su quelli di battaglia.

  • La konkista de la tierra
    • La Jornada
    • 27 December 2008

    Los defensores del modelo de poner a producir las tierras desde los gobiernos, inversionistas o grandes corporaciones argumentan que se generan puestos de trabajo, que se hace rendir tierras ociosas y que se producen alimentos. Pero en ese análisis falta el principal elemento. La pobreza en el mundo reside en el campo, precisamente por modelos como éste.

  • Move to lease land to the Qatari is ill-advised
    • Daily Nation
    • 27 December 2008

    The area around Tana Delta which the government seeks to lease to the Qatari is of immense strategic value. It is fertile, has fresh water and, more importantly, is located in a region that has the highest potential oil and gas deposits in the country as well as other mineral deposits.

  • Le KMF/CNOE exige la transparence
    • L'Express de Madagascar
    • 27 December 2008

    Le Comité national d'observation des élections a demandé des explications aux autorités malgaches, à propos de l'éventuelle acquisition d'une importante superficie de terrain par les Coréens de Daewoo.

  • 1st Arab economic summit to address financial crisis
    • Xinhua
    • 24 December 2008

    Arab Economic, Development and Social Summit to be held in Kuwait next month would focus on the global financial crisis, infrastructure in the Arab world and social issues, coordinator general for the summit said on Tuesday.

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