This report provides an analysis of Senhuile’s investment in Fanaye and Ndiael over the past four years, stressing serious shortcomings on the part of the company
- Actionaid
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21 October 2014
A new report by FIAN informs about the human rights violations of communities affected by land grabbing in Mali
Pakistan is now turning to agribusiness rather than land sales as a means of luring Gulf investment.
Some Australian farmers are voicing their concerns about the growing presence of foreign investment in their region.
Listed Singaporean company QAF, formerly known as Bunge, has sold out its last dairy farm in Australia to the European pension fund-backed ACE Farming for close to $5 million.
« Une politique agricole qui laisse la terre dans les mains des puissants ou des entreprises étrangères ne fera que détruire l’agriculture familiale, l’environnement et l’économie sociale, » assure Mariam Sow.
Vendredi 24 octobre, les représentants des communautés issues de 5 pays (Cameroun, Cambodge, Libéria, Côte d’Ivoire et Sierra Leone) touchées par les accaparements de terre ont rendez-vous à Paris avec le groupe Bolloré pour entamer les négociations.
Nous appelons les sociétés civiles, les mouvements sociaux, les ONGs et les syndicats, à partir du Forum Social Africain, à adopter cette plateforme et soutenir ses revendications avec tous les moyens à disposition.
We call on civil society, social movements, NGOs and trade unions from the Africa Social Forum to endorse this declaration and support its claims by all available means.
The increase of international corporate land grabbing with the collusion of state Ministers, Senators and bureacrats has exacerbated the situation of unemployment and food insecurity in Pakistan
- Pakistan Observer
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18 October 2014
Entretien sur l’accaparement de terres au Forum social africain Dakar 2014
Agricultural commercialisation concessions are contracts between governments and agribusiness companies for control over the supply of inputs and purchase of farm produce in a given geographical area.