Ato Tamiru, chairman of the Gumare Kebele in Gambella, western Ethiopia, and people in his kebele have been protesting the leasing of a large tract of land to an Indian company to be used for tea farming even though there is a severe food shortage in the country.
« Il faudrait créer une commission au niveau de l’ONU qui permettrait à toute victime de l’accaparement des terres de pouvoir porter plainte » selon Ana Maria Suarez de FIAN
Interview with Ibrahima Coulibaly about land grabs in Mali
The leftist World Social Forum yesterday denounced land grabbing in Africa by foreign groups as a form of neo-colonialism in a day devoted to debates on the continent.
"L'accaparement des terres c'est du banditisme d'Etat." Entretiens vidéos avec Ibrahim Coulibaly (la CNOP, Mali), Renaldo Chingore João (l'UNAC, Mozamique) et Melanie Kasom (la Confédération Paysanne, Congo).
Food security is back on the agenda with a bang, but while countries with money but little land want to invest elsewhere, few efforts are as emotive as a global "land grab".
The UAE and other GCC member countries should draw up a unified food security strategy with the bloc, and not individual countries, investing in farms abroad to minimise risks of political blackmail.
La apropiación de tierras es bandolerismo de Estado
"No toquen mi tierra. ¡Es mi vida!", fue el título elegido por las ONGs Enda y Oxfam para denunciar "el acaparamiento de tierras por parte de grupos extranjeros, europeos, asiáticos", pero también por "africanos pudientes".
Pakistan Foreign Minister says there is a win-win situation in combining Pakistan's richness in agriculture with the GCC's richness in energy resources.
Foreign investment in a Zambian farming firm may be a business model for Africa's hunger and food security problems.
Le Forum social mondial a consacré lundi à Dakar toute une journée de débats au continent africain, y dénonçant en particulier "l'accaparement des terres" par des groupes étrangers et les "mécanismes du néocolonialisme".
