The drought and famine in East Africa is throwing up some uncomfortable questions for the model of large scale agro-investment in a poor country for export.
Restrictive legislation on the selling of land will continue to be null and void so long as foreigners can rent farm land -- the ‘leasing loophole’.
Ocorre que, desde 2008, se renovaram as pressões sobre o espaço amazônico decorrentes do crescimento da demanda mundial por alimentos, que causou a alta nos preços da comida em 2010.
The project ‘Large-scale land acquisition and sustainable development’ calls for abstracts for a special issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.
A recently uncovered cabinet memorandum has provided details of the new “Sri Lankan Land Alienation Policy to Promote Development Activities”.
The thriving market for land for commercial agriculture in East and West Africa is now seen as a threat to food security as rural populations are pushed off prime land.
Saudi Star Agricultural Development is being sued by an Ethiopian state company for failure to pay for the clearing of land in the Gambella Regional State.
Within agriculture, conflicts revolve around land and water sources ownership and use. The case of Karatu Kiru valley sugarcane farming where one of the investors was killed by local community on May 31, 2011 serves as an illustration
Este artigo visa repercutir denúncia feita por organizações camponesas e de direitos humanos, especialmente a Via Campesina, sobre o grave e preocupante processo de acaparamento (1) de terras atualmente em curso em vários países e continentes.
El Partido Comunista (PCU) reclamó oficialmente al Frente Amplio (FA), que la coalición impulse normas que eviten que se agudice el proceso de extranjerización de la tierra.
González Guyer. Los militares cuando no encuentran enemigos, los inventan
Failing rains and drought are not the primary causes of the chronic food shortage and persistent famine hitting Ethiopia given the immense potential the country has.
