Silas Siakor: landgrabbing in Liberia
- EJOLT
- 20 November 2012
The government allocated some 350.000 hectares to Sime Darby, a Malaysian multinational. But people only came to know about this deal when the company showed up to take their land.
The government allocated some 350.000 hectares to Sime Darby, a Malaysian multinational. But people only came to know about this deal when the company showed up to take their land.
With the ups and downs of the stock market in the past few years and the boom in the rural economy, institutional investors are looking at farmland as a tangible, stable asset to have in their portfolio.
Jeanne Zoundjihékpon, responsable de l'ONG "GRAIN" pour l'Afrique, nous explique la problématique pour les agriculteurs et les citoyens africains.
Le Débat Africain se penche cette semaine sur le fléau de l'accaparement des terres en Afrique.
The financial collapse of a project by UK-based Sun Biofuels shows how the development dream can quickly turn into a nightmare for local people.
"We have made some fundamental mistakes over the past few years," PNG's Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill, told ABC Radio Australia.
Logging companies in PNG are using special agricultural leases to clear vast tracts of rainforest timber, on the promise of roads and economic development for remote villages. Jemima Garrett investigates.
Interviewé par Radio France Internationale
Oxfam campaigner Ben Phillips says the global land grab is hurting the world's poorest people.
Les précisions de Clara Jamart, chargée des questions des terres à Oxfam en France.
Emission consacrée aux mutations de la propriété foncière dans la mondialisation. Elles signalent un nouveau type de dépendance, voire de domination dans une situation à bien des égards néo-coloniale.
Même si 87% de la production provient toujours d’Indonésie et de Malaisie, les projets d’investissement dans la production d’huile de palme se multiplient dans la zone intertropicale africaine. Greenpeace pointe des projets de culture qui se font aux dépens de la forêt et des populations et appelle à leur suspension.