Women in Senegal are fighting back against land grabbing, from young coders designing a mobile app to help women buy land to civil society groups rallying female villagers to stand up to multinationals
La "situation s'aggrave en raison des combats dans certaines régions et de l'accaparement des terres", qui prive les paysans de leur moyen de subsistance, explique Moon Nay Li, secrétaire de la Kwat.
The stage for an acquisition of Crookes could already be set thanks to the involvement of African agriculture-focused UK private equity firm SilverStreet Capital as the key shareholder through its Silverlands (SA) Plantations investment vehicle.
Global firms and local elites are taking land from farmers, which pushes them to cities, where jobs are few.
Tanzania has entered into a $US 1 billion partnership agreement on commercialisation of cassava farming and processing with Tanzania Agricultural Export Processing Zone Limited and Epoch Agriculture from China.
Canadian investors - particularly pension funds - have led the way in changing Australian city money attitudes to agriculture.
While Dutch ag investors get priority access to 1500 ha near Hawassa, their embassy is helping the Ethiopian government start a conversation with its discontented population.
Soutenu par un cabinet d’avocat français, Guillaume Eboh Dipanda, jeune riverain des plantations de la Société Camerounaise des Palmeraies (Socapalm), vient de trainer Vincent Bolloré devant les tribunaux de Paris.
Read the synthesis of the thematic sessions which took place on the 31st March, 1st and 2 April 2016 in Valencia, Spain, during the global forum of the World Forum on Access to Land and Natural Resources.
Consultez la synthèse de chacune des sessions thématiques qui ont eu lieu les 31 mars, 1er et 2 avril 2016 lors du Forum Mondial sur l'Accès à la Terre et aux ressources naturelles à Valencia (Espagne).
Quelques très insignifiants frémissements semblent signaler un changement de mentalité au sein de l’ogre SOCAPALM au Cameroun. Le loup serait-il devenu un agneau ?
China sugarcane company Rui Feng continued its campaign to clear disputed land in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia yesterday, even after a video of its employees seemingly trying to beat villagers surfaced online earlier this week.
