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Ucrania: ¿Futuro granero de OGM de Europa?
- Minuto Digital
- 20 Mar 2015
“El conflicto de Ucrania es utilizado para vender tierras a los grandes consorcios”
Kick-Start Meeting: CFS Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment
- agrifood.net
- 20 Mar 2015
Members of the Private Sector Mechanism were at the FAO in Rome to give their views on how new Principles on Responsible Agricultural Investment can be used to respond to the urgent need to increase global investment in farm production.
#NoLandNoLife Philippines: Land grabbing through contract farming
- PAN AP
- 20 Mar 2015
PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) and Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) declaring “Day of the Landless” and launch regional campaign “No Land, No Life!” on March 29, highlighting foreign investments facilitating agribusiness land deals that aggravated landlessness, food insecurity, poverty, and loss of livelihood.
China's Marxist communal farming makes way for agribusiness
- LA Times
- 20 Mar 2015
Most of China's agribusinesses are locally owned, but foreign investors are seeding the market. In rural Anhui province, Cargill recently opened an operation named Site 82 that breeds, slaughters and processes 65 million chickens a year.
Costa Rica: Muestra huelga abusos de transnacionales
- La Razón San Luis
- 19 Mar 2015
Un alto porcentaje de la actividad bananera está en manos de empresas transnacionales.
Local groups pour capital in agriculture projects
- VietNamNet
- 19 Mar 2015
The head of Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group, Doan Nguyen Duc, now owns 46,000 ha of rubber, 10,000 ha of sugar cane and 6,000 ha of corn in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar and plans to raise 236,000 cows in Laos.
Illovo Sugar Limited Launches its Group Guidelines on Land and Land Rights
- Illovo
- 19 Mar 2015
Illovo Sugar Limited is pleased to announce the launch of its Group Guidelines on Land and Land Rights.
SIA : le Sénégal à la recherche d'investisseurs privés refuse "d'accepter un marché foncier rural"
- Hub Rural
- 18 Mar 2015
Selon le ministre sénégalais de l’Agriculture, le Sénégal ne doit « pas accepter un marché foncier rural car la terre pourrait être achetée par d’autres et les Sénégalais se replieraient dans les grandes villes. »
Paraguay: Garantías a la ciudadanía
- Última Hora
- 18 Mar 2015
La ley de garantía a las inversiones viola un principio básico de la Constitución, el de la igualdad. Concede un "congelamiento" de impuestos de hasta veinte años a quienes hagan grandes inversiones.
The great land giveaway in Mozambique
- Triple Crisis Blog
- 18 Mar 2015
What may end up dooming the ProSavana project in Mozambique is farmers’ growing awareness of the threat to their land, and their capacity to resist.
EU agricultural imports linked to illegal deforestation, study claims
- EurActiv
- 18 Mar 2015
The European Union is one of the world’s largest importers of agricultural goods from illegally deforested land, a report published 17 March by Fern, a green NGO, has found.
Guerre des actionnaires à Senhuile: L’ancien Dg Benyamin Dummai traduit Tampieri en justice
- EnQuête
- 18 Mar 2015
Une bataille judiciaire a été déclenchée entre l'ancien directeur général de Senhuile, Benyamin Dummai, et Tampieri Financial Group.