• PNG landowners get negligible rent for SABL land leases: expert
    • Radio Australia
    • 01 Mar 2012

    Papua New Guinea landowners are getting very little in the way of rent for vast tracts of land that have been leased out under controversial leases. Interview with Colin Filer.

  • Is ‘land grabbing’ good for Africa?
    • BBC
    • 25 February 2012

    So is it a land grab or a development opportunity? Is land grabbing actually good for Africa? BBC Africa Debate discusses the issue in Freetown in Sierra Leone.

  • Accaparement des terres
    • Radio Canut
    • 16 February 2012

    Entretien avec Fanny, paysanne en Ardèche, qui était présente avec 300 autres paysan-ne-s au Mali, fin novembre, pour le forum contre l’accaparement des terres, à l’appel de la Via Campesina et de la Coordination Nationale des Organisations Paysannes du Mali

  • Behind African ‘land grabs’ by US institutions and universities
    • WBEZ
    • 06 February 2012

    Entities such as USAID, the World Bank, and major U.S. universities are often the architects behind these land deals, which promise benefits for Africans but can often deliver food insecurity and displacement.

  • Une forêt tropicale ancestrale menacée au Cameroun
    • France Inter
    • 30 January 2012

    Pour les défenseurs de l’environnement, la catastrophe écologique est imminente : en septembre 2009, l’Etat du Cameroun a octroyé à une firme agroalimentaire américaine, Héraklès Farms, plus de 70 000 hectares pour exploiter une plantation de palmiers à huile à proximité du Korup National Park.

  • JDA du Jeudi 19 Janvier 2012
    • Africa Nº 1
    • 19 January 2012

    Pourquoi les autorités africaines négligent-elles l’alimentation de leurs populations privilégiant les retombées financières provenant de ces locations et ventes des terres agricoles ?

  • 11pc of farm land foreign-owned
    • ABC
    • 18 January 2012

    A report from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural Research Economic and Sciences shows the amount of farmland that is either partly or wholly foreign-owned has increased by nearly 60 per cent since the early 1980s.

  • 'They made us leave our farms'
    • BBC
    • 17 January 2012

    BBC radio investigates report by Human Rights Watch that claims Britain is indirectly funding a brutally enforced resettlement programme in Ethiopia.

  • Ethiopian government denies forcible relocations
    • BBC
    • 17 January 2012

    The Ethiopian government has denied forcibly relocating tens of thousands of people off their land to make way for foreign investors.

  • Solving south Sudan's land-grab problem
    • RFI
    • 02 January 2012

    Over nine per cent of South Sudan's land has already been acquired for large-scale investment. Now, the government is trying to undo deals done without its, or the community's knowledge, before people rise up to free it again.

  • Saudi company leases Ethiopian land for rice export
    • PRI
    • 27 December 2011

    A Saudi Arabian company has leased tens of thousands of acres in western Ethiopia to grow rice for export. The Ethiopian government says it will help provide food security for its citizens, but some who live in the region, say they’re not seeing any benefits.

  • Understanding land investment deals in Africa
    • Redeye
    • 20 December 2011

    Interview with Frederic Mousseau, policy director at the Oakland Institute in California.

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