The Asian Peasant Coalition and International League of Peoples’ Struggle kick off a peasants’ caravan themed: “Stop Global Land Grabbing! Struggle for Genuine Agrarian Reform & Peoples’ Food Sovereignty”
Coordinated action towards the president of the Malagasy High Authority of the Transition supporting the demands of the Malagasy people, as well as towards the president of the Republic of Korea recalling his country's extra-territorial human rights obligations in these projects.
A South Korean provincial government has leased a major plot of farmland in the central Philippines to grow corn as part of Seoul's bid for food security, officials said Thursday.
A scramble by wealthy states to snap up developing world farmland to ensure their own food security -- especially in Africa -- could trigger conflict in poorer countries, World Food Programme deputy executive director Sheila Sisulu said on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Egypt. "I fear... conflict," she said.
Rothschild has recently formed a co-operation agreement with Rabobank, a leading global food and agricultural bank. The agreement covers co-operation for mergers and acquisitions and the equity capital market across a number of sectors including farm inputs and equipment, farm-based commodities, primary food processing, food processing and beverages.
I wonder how many other behind-the-scenes transactions are currently underway in the continent that will only be announced when the deals have been signed and perhaps money has exchanged hands.
"Nous pouvons être expulsés à n'importe quel moment. Ils vont devoir assécher la zone et tout ce qu'il nous restera sera la pauvreté". Bernard Onyongo, pêcheur de 65 ans, voit son mode de vie menacé par la ruée sur les terres arables africaines.
"Es una forma de hegemonía (...) Qatar nunca cedería a Kenia participaciones en sus campos petrolíferos", critica el abogado keniano Evans Monari.
"C'est une forme d'hégémonie (...) Le Qatar ne cèderait jamais au Kenya des participations dans ses champs pétrolifères", critique l'avocat kényan Evans Monari.
"Our message is clear: it is not up to the G8 to set development strategies and programmes for Africa."
Nigeria allows foreigners -- like Thailand's Riceland International Co -- to lease land for growing rice and to run rice-related businesses including milling and processing.
Global food supply concerns have revived fears of foreigners seeking to do farming in Thailand. Some farmers worry they could end up being little more than serfs.
