There is something amazingly patronising in the way Payne claims that Emergent has ‘adopted’ a Mozambican village of 3,000 people and hired its citizens to clear 2,000 acres of land to farm it with her firm.
Entrevue avec Arnaud Zacharie, directeur du Centre national de coopération développement (CNCD, Belgique)
Roland Jansen, chief executive officer of Mother Earth Investments AG, talks about the outlook for the global farmland market.
As interest in transnational land acquisition for food production grows, the importance of legal customary tenure recognition becomes more apparent.
Peter Costello, the former treasurer of Australia, revealed Wednesday he was working with an investment fund that planned to inject US$600 million into Cambodia’s agricultural sector. The projects will cover a vast area, about 100,000 hectares.
Principaux éléments de l’intervention de Monsieur Abdoul Karim Mamalo, Secrétaire Permanent du Code Rural au Ministère du Développement Agricole du Niger lors de l’Assemblée Générale d’AGTER. Le 1er Sept 2009
M. Fall nous parle de la situation actuelle de l'agriculture dans la région de l'Afrique de lOuest et des défis auxquels elle doit faire face, dont l'accaparement des terres.
Documentary for Japan Broadcasting Corporation, focusing on Tanzania and Ethiopia
Programme aired on NHK World presenting a documentary by Kohei Tsuji filmed in Ethiopia and Tanzania - in Japanese only - 35 minutes
Der Spiegel video on Dominion Farms in Kenya and a Chinese farm project in Tanzania. Auf Deutsch.
Some compare it to a hold up on land; others say it is a development booster. Experts, politicians and Non governmental organizations disagree on their analysis of what is called “land-grabbing”-or the acquisition of farm lands- a practice on the increase.
Hold-up des terres agricoles pour certains, véritable opportunité de développement pour les autres, l’achat des terres arables divisent experts, politiques et autres responsables associatifs. Mais qu’en est-il réellement sur le terrain ?