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Ward Anseeuw at #BICAS2015
- PLAAS
- 07 May 2015
In this presentation Ward Anseeuw describes the increasing financialisation of food and agriculture, and the impact this has on land and food availability.
Vicstock venture pulls back
- West Australian
- 07 May 2015
Vicstock Grain and its Chinese backers (Beidahuang) have dramatically scaled back their cropping operations in the Wheatbelt three years after a $70 million spending spree on farmland.
Traitement de l’information sur les questions foncieres : l’IPAO sensibilise la presse à préserver la paix sociale
- Sud Quotidien
- 07 May 2015
Cet atelier vise à réfléchir sur la manière de livrer l’information aux populations et à évaluer la responsabilité des uns et des autres sur les problèmes fonciers.
Colombia: Restitución de tierras o la legitimación del despojo
- Semana
- 06 May 2015
El fracaso de la política de restitución de tierras no solo enterraría este derecho de las víctimas sino que legitimaría las prácticas de despojo por parte de grandes actores económicos.
Ukraine farms are takeover targets for private equity’s Bleyzer
- Bloomberg
- 06 May 2015
SigmaBleyzer's company AgroGeneration manages fields of wheat, sunflowers and other crops in five Ukrainian regions and is looking for deals to expand farm operations in the country
West Papua 'oil palm atlas' portrays industry's explosion in region
- Mongabay
- 06 May 2015
There's a saying in Indonesian palm oil industry: Sumatra is yesterday, Kalimantan is today, and Papua is tomorrow. Tomorrow might well have arrived. A new report sheds light on the industry's rapid expansion in Indonesia's easternmost region and the companies behind the plantation drive.
Hundreds of Cambodian villagers halt clearing of land in Preah Vihear
- RFA
- 05 May 2015
More than 300 villagers formed a human barrier, blocking bulldozers owned by the two foreign companies, Vietnamese developer Thy Nga and Taiwanese firm PNT who are encroaching ancestral farmland and operating outside of the boundaries set by their concessions.
Des villageois dénoncent l’accaparement de terres par Bolloré et Socfin ; les entreprises répondent
- Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
- 05 May 2015
"Les actions nécessaires seront introduites contre les propagateurs de ce mensonge," annonce le groupe Socfin.
Una mostra sul «land grabbing», ultima versione del neocolonialismo
- Corriere della Sera
- 05 May 2015
Il land grabbing si presenta insomma come un’ultima versione del neocolonialismo, che priva della loro terra i pastori e i piccoli coltivatori locali, l’accaparramento dell’acqua e la perdita della biodiversità. La ricerca si è concentrata sull’Etiopia, l’Arabia Saudita e gli Emirati Arabi: la fotografia è accompagnata da ampi testi esplicativi
Sugar company pulls out #ThaiCompany
- Thai Visa
- 05 May 2015
Asia’s largest sugar producer, Thailand’s Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation, has withdrawn from its three plantations in Oddar Meanchey province in Cambodia following years of criticism over alleged illegalities and human rights abuses at the concessions.
My Home My Land
- Oakland Institue
- 05 May 2015
My Home, My Land is a graphic representation that dismantles the myths promoted by donor countries, development agencies, and corporations about the positive effects of foreign direct investments through large-scale land acquisitions.
Ahogarse de hambre
- Palabre-ando
- 04 May 2015
¿Qué es tal invasión? ¿Qué cubre tantas y tantas hectáreas de esta tierra de enorme fertilidad? Ustedes mismos reconocerán por su morfología que son palmeras, pues sí, este bosque sin fin es un bosque de palma africana que las empresas multinacionales han convertido en una epidemia planetaria para su beneficio.