• Resident Minister condemns MP for incitement against Government
    • Awoko
    • 22 Mar 2011

    Political turmoil over Sierra Leone MP's nationwide broadcast inciting the people of Malen Chiefdom against the Government and the local Chiefs for having entered into a land deal with Luxembourg-based SOCFIN.

  • Bolloré-Vilgrain : la terre, la sueur et le sang
    • Survie
    • 21 Mar 2011

    Bolloré, premier des investisseurs français en Afrique, et Vilgrain, représentant de ces derniers, n’ont de cesse de vanter les bénéfices de leurs activités sur le continent pour les populations.

  • Hassad Food seeks Turkish farmland, invests $500 million in 2010
    • Bloomberg
    • 21 Mar 2011

    Qatar’s Hassad Food, a unit of the country’s sovereign wealth fund, plans to purchase farmland in Turkey to grow crops and raise livestock, the company’s chairman said.

  • Le Congo cède des terres aux fermiers sud-africains
    • IPS
    • 21 Mar 2011

    Congo-Brazzaville a cédé 80.000 hectares de terres agricoles à 14 fermiers sud-africains, propriétaires d'une société, 'Congo Agriculture'.

  • Journée mondiale de l’eau : l’Ethiopie aux prises avec un scandale international
    • Survival
    • 21 Mar 2011

    Le gouvernement éthiopien a par ailleurs affecté 180 000 hectares de terres de la vallée de l’Omo à l’investissement agricole dont certaines se trouvent sur les territoires des tribus nyangatom, karo et mursi.

  • Fears of foreigners buying up farmland are growing in Latin America
    • National
    • 21 Mar 2011

    With nations such as China eyeing property all over the world, and with worries over food security growing, Brazil is discussing tightening laws that would make it harder for foreigners to purchase land.

  • Ethiopia at centre of global farmland rush
    • Guardian
    • 21 Mar 2011

    Locals move out as international contractors seize opportunities offered by government to lease farmland at knockdown rates

  • Terras em poder de estrangeiros
    • O Estado de S.Paulo
    • 21 Mar 2011

    Já vão longe os tempos em que a posse de terras em áreas diversas do território nacional poderia ser considerada como reserva de valor por pessoas físicas ou jurídicas, transferindo-se do presente para o futuro o potencial produtivo de uma propriedade rural.

  • Limite de terras para estrangeiro é obstáculo
    • O Estado de S.Paulo
    • 20 Mar 2011

    Os limites impostos para a compra ou o arrendamento de terras por estrangeiros no País são apontados pelo grupo de trabalho coordenado pela Secretaria de Assuntos Estratégicos (SAE) como o principal obstáculo à captação de dinheiro para plantar florestas no Brasil.

  • Argentina: Colonización en tiempos de soja
    • Comunicación Ambiental
    • 20 Mar 2011

    El gobierno de Río Negro firmó un convenio con una empresa estatal china en el que compromete 250.000 hectáreas de tierras para la plantación de soja, trigo, viñas y maíz.

  • Suelo argentino
    • Parlamentario
    • 19 Mar 2011

    Una ley que limite la venta de tierras a inversionistas extranjeros fue la promesa de Cristina Kirchner. Existen 9 proyectos de ley en Diputados que prevén un régimen de la propiedad privada. Sin embargo, durante 2010 no llegó a debatirse en el recinto por decisión del oficialismo.

  • South Korea’s global food ambitions: Rural farming and land grabs
    • Conducive
    • 19 Mar 2011

    How did this country turn from being one of the poorest post colonial states in the world to one of the largest land grabbers in recent years?

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