• Mali: le combat des paysans contre l’accaparement des terres
    • RFI
    • 17 December 2012

    Au Mali, de plus en plus de paysans se disent victimes d’accaparement des terres. Découvrez les témoignages de Yaya Konaré, paysan chassé de son champ, Massa Koné, militant qui défend les victimes d’accaparement, et du colonel Moussa Sinko Coulibaly, le nouveau ministre malien de l'Administration territoriale.

  • Commission will report over 300 land grabs to Myanmar MPs
    • Myanmar Times
    • 17 December 2012

    A government commission formed to identify farmland ownership disputes will bring over 300 cases of land grabs to the attention of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw before the next session begins.

  • Uruguay: MPP ataca a Aguerre por concentración de la tierra
    • El País
    • 16 December 2012

    Mientras aumenta la concentración y extranjerización de la tierra y el gobierno muestra distintas opiniones sobre qué hacer al respecto, cada día de los últimos diez años tres establecimientos rurales tuvieron que optar por dejar el negocio.

  • Moçambique: Governo defende transferência de tecnologias no Baixo Limpopo
    • Diario de Moçambique
    • 15 December 2012

    O governante falava na capital provincial da Gaza durante a cerimónia de assinatura de memorandos de entendimento entre as empresas RBL e Wanbao, formalizando a concessão de cerca de 20 mil hectares de terra arável no Baixo Limpopo à companhia da China, que deverá explorar durante meio século.

  • Accepter l'argent chinois et rester ferme: le Canada cherche l'équilibre
    • AFP
    • 14 December 2012

    Pétrole, charbon, minerais ou terres agricoles: les entreprises chinoises, à la recherche de matières premières, investissent massivement au Canada où le gouvernement cherche à ménager cette précieuse source de devises tout en marquant sa fermeté face à Pékin.

  • Grabbing at solutions: Water for the hungry first
    • National Geographic
    • 14 December 2012

    This piece is part of "Water Grabbers: A Global Rush on Freshwater", a special National Geographic News series on how grabbing land—and water—from poor people, desperate governments, and future generations threatens global food security, environmental sustainability, and local cultures.

  • Land conflicts in Tete and Gaza
    • Joseph Hanlon
    • 14 December 2012

    The NGO FONGA claims that 80,000 people will be thrown off the land by Wanbao, a Chinese company that signed a concession for 20,000 ha in Gaza Provice Mozambique for rice production.

  • Cameroon: Campaigners oppose industrial palm oil plantation
    • IRIN
    • 14 December 2012

    Campaigners opposed to a large palm oil plantation in a rainforest covering part of the Korup National Park in southwestern Cameroon say up to 45,000 people risk losing their livelihoods if the project proceeds.

  • Sime Darby’s response to report by Basta! and Friends of the Earth Liberia
    • Sime Darby
    • 14 December 2012

    "If the populace objects, we will not develop the land," says Sime Darby

  • Bolivia: Precio de la tierra está por las nubes
    • La Prensa
    • 13 December 2012

    La presión internacional con intereses comerciales genera que cada vez más tierras se encuentran en manos de extranjeros.

  • Why Africa’s agribusiness sector holds potential for private equity
    • HowWeMadeItInAfrica
    • 13 December 2012

    Ander Einarsson, a partner at Phatisa and the team leader responsible for the Feronia deal, answered a few of How we made it in Africa’s questions.

  • Interview with GRAIN on the ProSavana project
    • EJOLT
    • 13 December 2012

    Imagine a land of 14 million hectares, bigger than Switzerland and Austria combined. Populated by millions of farming families that together practice shifting cultivation. Now imagine a foreign consultant saying that all of these are abandoned lands.

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