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Tales of Grabland
- LJ4WA
- 08 October 2014
Thousands of small farmers protest against the Rivers State Government's appropriation of their ancestral farmlands to give to a Mexican company for the development of a banana plantation.
O novo colonialismo: Terceiro mundo é vendido aos pedaços
- Brasil 247
- 08 October 2014
Desde a última grande crise alimentar, governos e empresas de nações ricas têm comprado ou arrendado terras férteis de países em desenvolvimento, em especial na África. Benefícios desses negócios para as populações locais? Poucos ou nenhum.
Report accuses India-born businessman of unchecked land grabbing across continents
- Down to Earth
- 08 October 2014
Sivasankaran’s land grabbing spree has threatened millions of livelihoods, says report
Big businesses attempt to muzzle critical reporting in India
- CPJ
- 07 October 2014
"My particular case is not just to intimidate me, but to silence all further reports on [Karuturi] and his company's operations in Africa," Acharya told CPJ.
Mozambican peasants vs. the great African land grab
- Huffington Post
- 07 October 2014
"Our land is being occupied without our consultation," say Mozambican peasants.
Displaced Cambodians file OECD complaint against ANZ Bank for financing massive land grab
- Inclusive Development
- 07 October 2014
A formal complaint filed to Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) against Australian ANZ Bank. The complaint was lodged on behalf of 681 families who were forcibly displaced.
Investors, hedge funds flock around opportunities in agriculture
- Opalesque
- 07 October 2014
"The buzz has actually been agricultural investment conferences, where about one tenth of the people seem to be people I recognize from the hedge fund circuit."
Govt asked to intervene between ANZ and poor Cambodians
- ABC
- 07 October 2014
Inclusive Development International sent a letter of complaint to the Australian Government outlining how ANZ was a part financier of a sugar plantation in Cambodia which saw almost 700 families forcibly evicted.
Niger is number one rice investment destination in Nigeria —Commissioner
- NIgeria Tribune
- 07 October 2014
Niger State Commissioner for Agriculture says Aliko Dangote is coming to Niger State in grand style with a request for 50,000 ha of land in the flood plain bank of River Niger for rice and sugarcane production.
Unprecedented case filed at International Criminal Court proposes land grabbing in Cambodia as a crime against humanity
- Huffington Post
- 07 October 2014
If the Cambodian government is held to account for these crimes, other governments and the companies involved will have to heed the warning and recognise that land grabbing is too big a price to pay for doing business.
Spanish activist group accuses Sivasankaran of global land grab
- Mint
- 07 October 2014
GRAIN’s report accuses the Siva Group of land grab in many countries across South America, Africa and Asia
Comment nourrir le « 1 % »
- GRAIN
- 07 October 2014
L'irruption dans l'agrobusiness d'un milliardaire indien de l'informatique donne une image inquiétante du rôle actuel de la finance dans l'agriculture