"Land grabbing" : l’accaparement de terres en Afrique se poursuit
    Ouyang Riping, PDG d’une société agricole chinoise, a une mission : transformer le Sénégal en grenier à sésame… pour la Chine ! Dakar lui cède 60 000 hectares pour cultiver et exporter le sésame vers Pékin. En échange, les chinois apprennent aux paysans sénégalais à obtenir deux récoltes de riz par an. Coopération originale ou marché de dupes ?
    • cDurable.info
    • 17 July 2009
    Saudi Arabia Agribusiness Report Q3 2009
    2009 is the year characterised by Arab' 'land grabs', where developing countries have been targeted by the kingdom as having the potential to feed the swelling food demands of Saudi Arabia
    • Companies and Markets
    • 17 July 2009
    Seminar on Commercial Pressures on Land - Utrecht, 8 July 2009
    On 8 July 2009, almost a hundred development practitionners from all over the world convened in Utrecht to participate to the DPRN Expert Seminar “Commercial Pressures on Land: rethinking policies and practice for development”.
    • ILC
    • 16 July 2009
    Opposition vs government’s leasing local farms to foreign companies gains ground
    A militant legislator has expressed alarm over what he described as escalating land-lease agreements by the Philippines with other countries
    • Business Mirror
    • 16 July 2009
    S. Korea leases 94,000 ha in Mindoro
    A southwestern province in South Korea has leased 94,000 hectares of farmland in Mindoro to grow 10,000 tons of corn a year for feed for 25 years, a provincial government official said on Tuesday. In Manila, however, agriculture officials were caught unaware of such lease agreement
    • Inquirer
    • 16 July 2009
    Africa and the end of hunger
    Africa’s agrarian questions are not adequately addressed by simply asking, “What is the role of African smallholders?”
    • Pambazuka
    • 16 July 2009
    Arab states in 'neo-colonial' food grab
    A Kuwaiti company partly owned by the emirate's sovereign wealth fund is preparing to join other Gulf states in buying up agricultural land in Asia, part of a global land grab to ensure food security.
    • UPI
    • 16 July 2009
    Aumenta el interés extranjero en la compra de tierras agrícolas brasileñas
    Los inversionistas de Arabia Saudita y de China están cada vez más interesados en adquirir tierras agrícolas en Brasil.
    • Radioagencia NP
    • 16 July 2009
    APC & ILPS kick off 5-mo Asia-wide Peasants' Caravan for Land & Livelihood
    The Asian Peasant Coalition and International League of Peoples’ Struggle kick off a peasants’ caravan themed: “Stop Global Land Grabbing! Struggle for Genuine Agrarian Reform & Peoples’ Food Sovereignty”
    • APC
    • 16 July 2009
    Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform Emergency Action: Madagascar: threat of large-scale land acquisition by foreign companies
    Coordinated action towards the president of the Malagasy High Authority of the Transition supporting the demands of the Malagasy people, as well as towards the president of the Republic of Korea recalling his country's extra-territorial human rights obligations in these projects.
    • FIAN
    • 16 July 2009
    SKorea leases RP farmland in food security bid
    A South Korean provincial government has leased a major plot of farmland in the central Philippines to grow corn as part of Seoul's bid for food security, officials said Thursday.
    • AFP
    • 16 July 2009
    Land scramble by rich 'may lead to conflict'
    A scramble by wealthy states to snap up developing world farmland to ensure their own food security -- especially in Africa -- could trigger conflict in poorer countries, World Food Programme deputy executive director Sheila Sisulu said on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Egypt. "I fear... conflict," she said.
    • Reuters
    • 15 July 2009

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