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Office du Niger : Mais que cache donc le gouvernement ?
- Le Républicain
- 24 February 2011
Certaines questions essentielles soulevées par le Parena sur les cessions de terres de l'Office du Niger restent toujours sans réponse, voire sans suite.
Cession des terres de l’Office du Niger : chronologie d’une bataille des chiffres et de la transparence
- Hub Rural
- 24 February 2011
Chronologie d’une bataille entre le PARENA et l'Office du Niger au Mali
Agriterra to build port facility in Guinea
- World Grain
- 23 February 2011
Company expands its activities to capitalize on the soft and hard commodity resource boom in West Africa
Touche pas à ma terre, c'est ma vie! (Part 1)
- Daily Motion
- 23 February 2011
Au cours de ce reportage la parole est donnée à ceux qui vivent l'accaparement des terres. Ils sont du Mali, du Sénégal et du Burkina Faso, tous ils témoignent du caractère méprisant de la façon dont leurs terres sont confisquées dans le silence total des organisations de défense des droits de l'homme ....
Korean firm eyes Davao City for vegetable production
- PNA
- 23 February 2011
A Korean firm is eyeing the Philippines for developing vast agricultural lands for vegetable production.
Food: The big fright
- Qatar Today
- 23 February 2011
Qatar pursuing a "shared-benefits model" that meets the needs of investors and local communities in currently cultivated land areas where the yield gaps are large.
Africa farmland has potential of Brazil: Quifel
- Reuters
- 22 February 2011
African farmland investment has the potential to match the exponential growth of Brazil's agricultural industry, the head of business development at privately owned agricultural operator Quifel said.
Foreign investors dominate bids for Nansanga Bloc
- Zambia Post
- 22 February 2011
Of the 16 applications received, only six were from Zambia while the rest were from foreign investors from the UK, Egypt, China, Hungary, Mauritius, Switzerland and South Africa.
Land moves up the political agenda
- CIP & AWEPA
- 22 February 2011
In Mozambique, there has been an unofficial halt to new large land grants.
Mainmise de l’État sur les terres : Le Pit dénonce un projet au profit de l’agrobusiness
- Le Quotidien
- 22 February 2011
Le Sénégal risque d’être très ciblé dans le futur si le gouvernement arrivait à faire voter une reforme sur le foncier dont le but réel serait de mettre toutes les terres à la disposition de l’Etat.
PARENA: Memorandum on land acquisitions in the Office du Niger
- PARENA
- 22 February 2011
The National Renaissance Party calls on the Government of Mali to publish a full list of beneficiaries of land and the areas granted to them.
Maguindanao massacre area eyed for banana farm
- Philippine Star
- 22 February 2011
A local subsidiary of Saudi Arabian firm Abbar and Zainy has proposed turning a wide swathe of land in Sultan Kudarat and Maguindanao – including the site of the Maguindanao massacre – into a banana plantation.