Este informe del Transnational Institute (TNI), elaborado por especialistas en la materia realiza un sintético pero detallado análisis del acaparamiento de tierras en el momento actual y recoge estudios de caso relevantes.
Reflections on a project to map instances of rural land-grabbing in Tanzania.
Las propuestas de la FAO o la OMC para enfrentarlo son como poner una tirita en una herida que sangra: no puede parar la hemorragia; transparente o no, sigue siendo acaparamiento de tierras.
Good-faith investment or flagrant land grab? That’s what Colombians are debating following revelations that Cargill acquired nearly 130,000 acres [52,610 ha] of former government land that had been donated to peasant farmers.
Tate & Lyle, el mayor fabricante mundial de azúcar, se beneficia del trabajo casi gratuito de niños camboyanos y de la expropiación de tierras a través de su proveedora local, la tailandesa KSL.
"Recuperar a soberania nacional sobre as terras brasileiras. Propomos que o governo anule as áreas já compradas e desaproprie todas as terras controladas por empresas estrangeira".
Villagers from Koh Kong, Cambodia claim they are losing their livelihoods to plantations that supply Tate & Lyle
Africa must be developed in a rush in order to avoid a global food crisis with huge changes, including a confrontation with chiefs, the role of women and the views on collective property, says Danish Minister for Development Cooperation.
With the huge export potentials of banana, RP Bahrain Harvest Inc. is putting up a plantation in the Philippines with an initial investment of P85 million.
Felda Global is planning a $13.7 million purchase of rubber, oil palm land in Indonesia and says it is closing in on land deals in Myanmar, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea.
Environmental activists have petitioned Washington to open up an investigation into the land acquisition and forest exploitation activities of a U.S.-owned palm oil firm, Herakles Farms, in Cameroon’s southwest.
Proposed constitutional amendment will allow 100-percent foreign ownership and control of land and give non-Filipino individuals and entities access to an unlimited size of land, says KMP.