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Quand l’Ethiopie ne touche plus terre...
- Agrobiosciences
- 18 April 2011
Au cœur du problème, la grande opacité de termes des accords passés entre les Etats et les grandes firmes.
Asian palm oil: limited supply
- FT
- 18 April 2011
Industry giants such as Malaysia’s Sime Darby and Singapore’s Olam and Wilmar International are scrambling for fresh space in equatorial Africa.
World Bank conference on Land and Poverty 2011
- World Bank
- 18 April 2011
Video of the Panel: Can Funds and Financial Institutions promote good land-based investment practice? Featuring represetatives of Rabobank, Emergent Asset Management, TIAA-CREF and Galtere Ltd).
Missing food security
- Pakistan Observer
- 18 April 2011
UAE is ready to build small dams for cultivation on lands they would acquire in Pakistan, provided the government ensures that there is no ban on exports.
Opposition to call referendum on privatization of farmland, says Tymoshenko
- Interfax
- 18 April 2011
Opposition says "the privatization of farmland in the execution of an order of the incumbent president and his entourage is a large-scale scam, which will deprive Ukraine of a great part of its land."
Des populations autochtones expulsés de leurs terres
- Franciscans Int'l
- 18 April 2011
Aujourd'hui, 5,2 millions Colombiens, soit un habitant sur neuf, sont classés personnes déplacées dû principalement à l'accaparement de terres pour la production de l'huile de palme
Agricultural land grabs threaten local property rights and sustainable development
- WRI
- 18 April 2011
Governments often justify these deals by citing their potential contribution to economic growth – however, any gains risk being greatly outweighed by negative impacts on local livelihoods, say WRI
WB, UN and govts told to back off lands
- Morung Express
- 18 April 2011
The World Bank, UN agencies and governments are criticized for promoting agricultural investments that are resulting in land grabbing on a massive scale.
Yaregal Aysheshum
- The Reporter
- 18 April 2011
"The farmland that we are transferring to foreign investors is not the land that is being used by the locals," asserts Yaregal Aysheshum, former president of the Benshangul Gumuz Regional State in Ethiopia
Financiers lock horns over macro policies while millions go hungry
- IPS
- 17 April 2011
An immense coalition of peasant collectives and land-rights organisations stated that the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty happening here this weekend would likely sign thousands of hectares away from farming communities into the hands of industrial corporations.
On n'arrête pas l'éco
- France Inter
- 17 April 2011
Entretien avec le réalisateur Alexis Marant pour son documentaire "Planète à vendre" diffusé mardi 19 avril à 20h40 sur Arte (France Inter)
El Síndrome de China: La creciente presencia china en América Latina
- Americas Program
- 17 April 2011
Las preocupaciones de que la creciente presencia china esté socavando la soberanía local han llegado a su punto más alto en Argentina, donde el gobierno de la provincia de Río Negro firmó en 2010 un acuerdo con la corporación china Beidahaung Group para arrendar unas 320 mil hectáreas de sus mejores terrenos agrícolas para la producción de soya, trigo, colza y otros productos.