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Farm Lands of Guinea invited to evaluate replicating its agricultural restoration model in neighboring West African countries
- PR Newswire
- 23 November 2011
US company with 100,000 ha in Guinea now looking to expand into The Gambia and Sierra Leone.
Vietnam group starts huge sugar project in Laos
- Tuoi Tre News
- 23 November 2011
Vietnam’s Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group started work on the construction of a US$100 million sugar and sugarcane industrial cluster in Attapeu province, southern Laos.
African farms in corporate cross hairs
- UPI
- 22 November 2011
Myriad small farmers in Africa are being set up to fail by multinational corporations that end up assuming their land, a Canadian professor says.
Nuevo término para la enciclopedia de la indignación: acaparamiento de tierras
- El Parque de las Hamacas
- 22 November 2011
En la última década millones de hectáreas han sido arrendadas o vendidas en los países empobrecidos, fundamentalmente en África.
The agricultural land owned by foreigners in Romania, 700,000-plus ha
- RNA
- 22 November 2011
Foreigners currently have more than 700,000 ha of agricultural land in Romania, representing 8.5 percent of the arable land of the country, says Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Un rapport dénonce l’accaparement de terres agricoles au Mali (Oakland Institute)
- La France Agricole
- 21 November 2011
L'Institut Oakland (Etats-Unis) a enquêté sur les investissements fonciers au Mali, lesquels totalisent actuellement plus de 500.000 ha.
Interview with Thomas Ouana, from Mali against land grabbing
- Radio Mundo Real
- 21 November 2011
The International Peasant Conference taking place in Mali against land grabbing aims to build a concrete action plan to stop this phenomenon, said Thomas Ouana, from the National Union of Mozambican Peasant Farmers (UNAC) in an interview with Real World Radio.
Lack of coordination blamed for land grab
- Guardian
- 21 November 2011
Lack of coordination between land different authorities has been cited as among the factors contributing to land grab in Tanzania.
Lancement d'une alliance internationale contre les accaparements de terres
- La Via Campesina
- 21 November 2011
Plus de 250 paysannes et paysans, venus de 30 pays du monde ont créé aujourd´hui une alliance internationale contre les accaparements de terres.
Comprendre les investissements fonciers en Afrique: Rapport Mali
- Oakland Institute
- 21 November 2011
Le présent rapport de l'Oakland Institute recense et examine les investissements fonciers au Mali
Movements unite in Mali, confronting powerful interests : “We are decolonizing Africa here”
- Via Campesina
- 20 November 2011
Peasant movements concur that in the absence of control over their lands, real food sovereignty is impossible.
Brazil plans stricter land purchase rules - report
- Reuters
- 19 November 2011
Brazil's government is working on a new rule to further limit the purchase of farm land by foreigners, arguing that the current legislation has been "insufficient".