La paz en la región ha ido desapareciendo por muchas presiones, entre ellas el acaparamiento de tierras para cultivos agrícolas y ganadería por parte de terceros que no son de la Mosquitia.
New CRS Report shows that foreigners own just under 3% of US farmland, led by Canada (accounting for 30% of foreign holdings), Netherlands (14%), Italy (7%), UK (6%) and Germany (2%).
Cochrane’s and Andrews’ The Transnational Land Rush in Africa: A Decade After the Spike provides a timely and necessary update of the land rush “a decade after the 2007/08 commodity price spike.”
"Madagascar's development policies are focused on the promotion of the extractive and agro-industrial sectors which lead to a recurrent land grabbing issue,” says CRAAD-OI
Listen to an interview with Maria Luisa Mendonça of Rede Social on US teachers' pension fund TIAA investments in Brazil land grabbing and deforestation.
The government of Malaysia is open to lease idle land - owned land, government land or reserve land - to the private sector to generate economic activities.
The global land rush has highlighted deep-seated tensions between competing visions of agriculture, food systems, territory and society.
In 2013, mammoth US investment company TIAA-CREF gave $5 million to the University of Illinois to fund a research center, branded with the company’s name, that would explore the financial niche of farmland investment.
Emirati giant Elite Agro LLC is looking for opportunities to invest in specific commodities in the agriculture sector that can be produced in Guyana on a large scale.
Elite Agro, which farms tens of thousands of hectares in various parts of the world, may invest in the large-scale production of corn and soybean in Guyana, as well as seafood
Entretien avec Karin Nansen, membre des Amis de la Terre International et de REDES-Amis de la Terre Uruguay
Growing rush for land is destroying ecosystems and disrupting lives to satisfy global demand for goods, study warns
