Rund um den Internationalen Afrikatag am 25. Mai macht Gemeinsam für Afrika in jedem Jahr deutschlandweit mit kreativen Aktionen auf Probleme und Missstände aufmerksam.
- Gemeinsam für Afrika
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23 May 2012
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.
- Ziarul Financiar
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18 May 2012
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.
- Centro Mandela
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02 May 2012
"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.
- Earth Times
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23 April 2012
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.
Released on the eve of the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty in Washington DC, April 23-26, 2012, two new films reveal widespread violations of people's rights and environmental destruction from land grabbing in Africa.
- La Via Campesina/FOE
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21 April 2012
After a year-long legal battle, China will be allowed to buy farmland in new Zealand. Some experts say these purchases are less about business and more about rich countries securing their own food supply at the expense of less well off nations.
Landgrab celebrated on this April 24th at the Waldorf Astoria. We must move faster & with force - not get trapped by systematic 1%er crimes like the Global Ag.
- irREVERENTfilms
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19 April 2012
Presentations by Antonio Tricarico of CRBM (financialisation of nature in general) and Devlin Kuyek of GRAIN (land grabbing as specific sector / example)