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Principles for responsible agriculture and food investments are approved
- FAO
- 16 October 2014
FAO Director-General says that a clear and unified set of principles will "enable larger and more sustainable investment in agriculture"
Development miracle or environmental disaster? A look behind the oil palm controversy
- CIFOR
- 16 October 2014
New book, “Palms of controversies: Oil palm and development challenges,” says the problems is not the oil palm but the way people have chosen to exploit it.
CFS agri investment principles don't uphold food, land rights - PAN AP
- PANAP
- 16 October 2014
PAN Asia Pacific says the principles on agricultural investment are self-contradicting and fail in promoting the human right to food, land and resources.
Bradage des terres arables en Côte d'Ivoire : Le régime Ouattara «cadeaute» une multinationale véreu
- Nouveau Courrier
- 15 October 2014
Une joint-venture indo-israélienne spécialisée dans l'huile de palme vient de bénéficier d'une incroyable exemption fiscale de la part du pouvoir ivoirien.
Forum social africain : alternatives pour un autre monde possible
- Journal du Mali
- 15 October 2014
Pendant cinq jours, la capitale sénégalaise sera le lieu de pèlerinage des acteurs du mouvement social africain.
Mozambique heads to polls amid claims of Chinese landgrabs – in pictures
- Guardian
- 15 October 2014
The ruling Frelimo party has had to defend itself against accusations of landgrabs after the government leased land near Xai-Xai, in Gaza province, to China’s Wanbao Oil and Grain to grow rice.
Lagos to acquire more farmland in Osun, Oyo
- New Telegraph
- 15 October 2014
Lagos State government says states acquiring land for food production in other places has become "global practice everywhere".
L’investissement Senhuile-Senethanol à Ndiael, Sénégal : Quel avenir sans ma terre ?
- Actionaid
- 15 October 2014
Ce rapport d'Actionaid analyse les investissements de l’entreprise sénégalo-italienne à Fanaye et Ndiael ces quatre dernières années
Land grabbing fuelling violent conflict in Gambela region
- ASO
- 15 October 2014
At the heart of the current conflict is the government's development policy and the uncontrolled influx of migrants acquiring lands in the indigenous people’s territories.
Julien N’Kolo Reteno à l’ESU : l’accaparement des terres au Gabon
- Attac TV
- 14 October 2014
Julien N’Kolo Reteno est délégué général d’Attac Gabon. Il est interviewé à l’occasion de l’Université d’été européenne d’Attac à Paris en 2014 sur l’accaparement des terres au Gabon.
PNG: Billionaire financiers erode food sovereignty, says new report
- Pacific Media Centre
- 14 October 2014
Siva Group's oil palm plantation land deal in Papua New Guinea described as "one of the worst land development schemes ever".
Colombia: Sarmiento Angulo, su hijo y sus baldíos
- Las dos orillas
- 14 October 2014
El interés de Sarmiento Angulo en la altillanura, como del conjunto del sector financiero, responde a las compulsiones que surgen de la relativa escasez de tierras fértiles a escala orbital —que estimula su acaparamiento y extranjerización—, como del oportunismo especulativo.