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Accaparement des terres agricoles: une réalité française?
- France Culture
- 18 January 2017
Les sols français sont-il réellement victimes d'accaparement?
Watch: Cambodia’s Kuoy in land conflict with Chinese company
- Radio Free Asia
- 17 January 2017
The China-backed sugar plantation is clearing land and forest, jeopardizing the survival of the indigenous Kuoy in Cambodia.
The new superpowers in the global land grab and how they operate
- The Conversation
- 17 January 2017
Land deals are implemented – and often initiated – by sub-national states which are in competition with each other to win major investments.
Vulture funds closing in on hundreds of farms
- Farm Ireland
- 17 January 2017
Hundreds of farms in Ireland face repossession this year as so-called vulture funds swoop on indebted properties, agri-finance experts have warned.
Huile de palme : Greenpeace cible HSBC
- Novethic
- 17 January 2017
Greenpeace accuse la banque de financer, entre autres, Goodhope Asia Holding Ltd contre laquelle des ONG et des communautés locales ont porté plainte auprès de la RSPO pour "accaparement de terres" en Papouasie.
LandBank, JICA ink ¥4.9-B agribusiness project for Mindanao conflict areas
- Manila Bulletins
- 17 January 2017
Land Bank of the Philippines (LandBank) and the government of Japan have signed a loan agreement worth almost ¥5-billion to fund a five-year project that aims to jumpstart agribusiness investments in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
Niger-Arabie Saoudite : des pétrodollars contre des terres arables ?
- La Tribune
- 16 January 2017
Le Niger et le Royaume d’Arabie Saoudite viennent de conclure plusieurs accords de coopération, remettant à l’ordre du jour le très controversé projet d’achat de terres arables au Niger qu’envisagent des investisseurs saoudiens.
Armed with apps and crops, women lead battle to save Senegal's shrinking farmland
- TRF
- 16 January 2017
Women in Senegal are fighting back against land grabbing, from young coders designing a mobile app to help women buy land to civil society groups rallying female villagers to stand up to multinationals
Damnées de la terre : en quête d'emploi, des Birmanes mariées de force en Chine
- AFP
- 16 January 2017
La "situation s'aggrave en raison des combats dans certaines régions et de l'accaparement des terres", qui prive les paysans de leur moyen de subsistance, explique Moon Nay Li, secrétaire de la Kwat.
Crookes Brothers might be ripe for the picking
- Financial Mail
- 16 January 2017
The stage for an acquisition of Crookes could already be set thanks to the involvement of African agriculture-focused UK private equity firm SilverStreet Capital as the key shareholder through its Silverlands (SA) Plantations investment vehicle.
Land grabs are partly to blame for skyrocketing violence in Central America
- Huffington Post
- 16 January 2017
Global firms and local elites are taking land from farmers, which pushes them to cities, where jobs are few.
Cassava pact with Chinese firm 'a big boost'
- Daily News
- 16 January 2017
Tanzania has entered into a $US 1 billion partnership agreement on commercialisation of cassava farming and processing with Tanzania Agricultural Export Processing Zone Limited and Epoch Agriculture from China.