The Ethiopian government is forcibly displacing indigenous pastoral communities inEthiopia’s Lower Omo valley without adequate consultation or compensation to make way for state-run sugar plantations, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
Large-scale soy monoculture is expanding rapidly in Latin America. Boosted by dubious investment from multi-national corporations, it has moved well beyond the southern states and into the Amazon area.
Our conception of land-grabs and global discussions on the phenomenon are informed too much by contentious, large-scale land deals in Africa and too little by examples from other regions. This has led to many unfounded assumptions about the nature of land-grab.
Entretien accordé à l'AFD en mai 2012 sur la menace que représente l'acquisition des terres à grande échelle pour l'agriculture familiale africaine.
Rund um den Internationalen Afrikatag am 25. Mai macht Gemeinsam für Afrika in jedem Jahr deutschlandweit mit kreativen Aktionen auf Probleme und Missstände aufmerksam.
Jeffrey Notaro, a trader who worked on Wall Street for 18 years, set up investment fund Black Sea Agriculture seven years ago, mainly for investments in farmland in northern Bulgaria and south Romania.
Indigenous Papuans are reeling from the cut-price sale of the land and forests that are their lifeblood
Informe audiovisual sobre el proyecto árabe en el Chaco. Intentamos establecer otro punto de vista con respecto a los mega proyectos económicos y su impacto socioambiental.
"On se tromperait si on se disait que c'était une bonne idée parce que les rendements augmentent. Car ce n'est pas au bénéfice des populations locales. Pour l'instant c'est plus une menace qu'une opportunité."
The World Bank and Wall Street firms targeted for African land deals displacing hundreds of thousands.
Leading environmental campaigning organisation Friends of the Earth International and La Via Campesina have released two videos showing how projects financed by World Bank funds have allegedly led to African land grabs.
John Muyiisha et les communautés de Kalangala, en Ouganda, ont perdu leurs terres. Un jour, la compagnie kenyane BIDCO est venu et leur a dit que la terre ne leur appartenait plus.
