"Pareciera que el propósito es no permitir la identificación precisa de la cada vez mayor presencia extranjera en el agronegocio soyero, pero particularmente de la propiedad extranjera de grandes extensiones de tierra”

The first Africasia Sustainable Farming Fund will be investing in land across the Africasia region and in Sri Lanka to take advantage of the current post war economic boom in the country and the demand and shortfall for basic food crops in the region and globally, reports Apex Fund Services, a UK-based hedge fund

Draft resolution from the workshop of the Pan African Parliament under the theme Making investment Work for Africa: a Parliamentarian Response to “Land Grabs”

Alors que des millions de personnes sont gravement menacées de famine dans la Corne de l’Afrique, des investisseurs étrangers récoltent dans la même région des tonnes de céréales à destination de l’Asie ou des pays du Golfe.

Le programme prévoit notamment une présentation des résultats des études coordonnées par l’International Land Coalition, ainsi qu’un focus sur la zone Office du Niger au Mali.

How can we ensure that women do not fall into a trap of the idea of land ownership in a context where even those (men) who have secure rights are not able to hold on to their tenure!

While millions of people in the Horn of Africa suffer a terrible drought, foreign investors are harvesting tonnes of cereals to be exported to Asia and the Gulf states.

Land-Grabbing is slowly becoming a serious problem in Tanzania with the poor being turned into landless citizens in their own country in the name of foreign investors.

Se trata de conseguir un Plan de acción aprobado por las organizaciones campesinas y las ONGs en contra de los acaparamientos a nivel local, nacional e internacional.

El Gobierno ya había previsto en diciembre del año 2010 cederle tierras del Ministerio de Ganadería, Agricultura y Pesca - MGAP- al Instituto Nacional de Colonización, que son precisamente las tierras que estuvieron en tela de juicio en el Cabo Polonio.

On July 19, Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada registered the project of law “On Land Market”. It was brought in by Nikolay Azarov, the head of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

Chunks of land that are being targeted for Kilimo Kwanza belong to rural-based small producers who are likely to lose it to large-scale investors as pillar number five of the programme advocates for amendments of the Village Land Act No. 5 of 1999 to facilitate acquisition of land for large scale investment.