At the final rally the protesters denounced food speculations and land grabbing. They said the farmers need fair rules instead of a liberalization of agricultural markets.
75% of Mali's population are farmers, but rich, land-hungry nations like China and Saudi Arabia are leasing Mali's land in order to turn large areas into agribusiness farms. Many Malian peasants do not welcome these efforts, seeing them as yet another manifestation of imperialism.
- Land Rush – Why Poverty?
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06 January 2013
Une centaine de militants ont repris la chorégraphie « Gangnam style » pour exiger la fin des expulsions forcées et de l’accaparement des terres au Cambodge
- Amnesty International
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26 December 2012
Documentaire sur Public Sénat
- Nouvel Observateur
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20 December 2012
Documentary film examines the experience of Mali with large-scale farmland grabs.
- Why Poverty?
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11 December 2012
The Mozambiqan government has marked the northern Niassa province to promote commercial, large-scale tree plantations. Currently, the single biggest plantation in the region comprises of 13,000 hectares of eucalyptus and pine, owned by a company called ‘Chikweti Forests of Niassa.’
- TheWaterChannel
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04 November 2012
Land grabs are carried out today in the Rufiji River Basin through the application of both force and consent.
- Let's talk land Tanzania
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31 October 2012
Vidéo de La Via Campesina, en version française
- Via Campesina
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26 October 2012
Hubert Cochet, professeur d'agriculture comparée à Agroparistech, fait le point.
- Terrethique
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19 October 2012
L’accaparement violent des terres dans la basse vallée de l’Omo déplace les tribus et affame des milliers de riverains qui perdent les moyens de subvenir à leurs besoins.
The credibility of the international Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has been called into question over its failure to act against a company bulldozing ancestral forests and perpetrating human rights abuses in Indonesia.
Oxfam report says international land investors and biofuel producers have taken over land around the world that could feed nearly 1 billion people.