Lors de son face-à-face avec la presse le 31 décembre dernier, le chef de l’Etat sénégalais avait dit demandé au «ministre des Finances d’engager des réformes afin qu’il ne soit plus possible d’octroyer des titres fonciers sur les terres arables».
The co-founder of Microsoft and his wife rank as the largest private farmland owners in the US, with over 242,000 acres across the country.
Le fondateur de Microsoft possède plus de terres agricoles aux États-Unis que n'importe quel propriétaire terrien privé américain, selon The Land Report.
A Comissão Pastoral da Terra – Regional Piauí, ao tempo em que denuncia a grilagem de terra e a violência no campo no estado do Piauí, repudia essa prática e torna público mais um caso desumano, arbitrário e de irregularidade ao direito à terra e ao território.
The violence inherent in the colonial plantation model does not spare systems of collective organization, food sovereignty, community care, cultural and language diversity, and ancestral knowledge.
Watch the recording of a panel discussion from the Oxford Real Farming Conference with FIAN International, Agter and Land Matrix Ukraine
Argentina’s land laws have meant increasingly concentrated land ownership and leasing to profit-oriented companies who care little for long-term sustainability.
"Le fait que des étrangers s'installe ici, ne pose pas de problème, à condition qu'ils ne fassent pas de production intensive et qu'ils respectent les normes écologiques" explique le porte parole de la Confédération Paysanne en Mayenne
The government has decided to open Nepal’s agriculture sector—primary production—for foreign direct investment by allowing 100 percent of investment
Au Cameroun, les populations rurales accusent la Socapalm, une entreprise de plantation de palmiers à huile, de les déposséder de leurs terres. Elisabeth Asen Somo a mené sa petite enquête.
Norfund reports losses of over $23 million on its investments in the UK company Agrica and its large-scale rice plantation in the Kilombero Valley of Tanzania.
In Colombia, big agribusinesses, cattle ranchers, transnational corporations, and wealthy landowners have been able to claim land that is not theirs by acquiring titles through a legal system farming families have no access to.
