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Feeding the 1 percent
- GRAIN
- 07 October 2014
An IT billionaire's foray into agribusiness paints a disturbing picture of today's farmland financiers.
Cambodge : Examen préliminaire devrait être ouvert par la CPI sur les crimes résultant de l’accaparement des terres
- FIDH
- 07 October 2014
Une communication soumise aujourd’hui à la Cour pénale internationale atteste que la pratique des crimes découlant de l’accaparement des terres au Cambodge est constitutive de crimes contre l’humanité.
Cambodia land grab victims seek ICC 'crimes against humanity' probe
- Channel News
- 07 October 2014
Aid groups estimate that 770,000 people, or 6 per cent of Cambodia's population, have been evicted since 2000, including 20,000 people in the first three months of 2014.
China's appetite for Aussie farmland
- Financial Review
- 06 October 2014
The little known Chinese group Orient Agriculture has emerged as the buyer of a south-west Queensland cropping property Undabri for $30 million, in a further sign of China's growing appetite for Australian farmland.
EU stands passively by as Cambodia’s oligarchs engage in blatant, shameful land grab
- Policy Review
- 06 October 2014
Suspending the imports of sugar and rubber from Cambodia under the EBA arrangement should be the first step that the EU should take until the blatant abuse of human rights is halted.
Nigeria: Basin authority to cultivate 10,000 hectares of rice, sugar cane in Kwara, Kogi
- NAN
- 06 October 2014
The Dangote Group had indicated interest in investing in irrigation around Kampe dam, adding that the land was suitable for sugar cane cultivation
Farmers, indigenous peoples, and NGOs take to streets in ten cities demanding an end to World Bank’s morally bankrupt development
- Oakland Institue
- 06 October 2014
Groups will stage "creative resistance" outside of Bank’s Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.—and around the World—on October 10th & 11th.
Camponeses acusam candidatos à Presidência da República de marginalizarem a agricultura camponesa
- ADECRU
- 06 October 2014
Os camponeses apontam que a entrada desses investimentos empurram as comunidades para terra inférteis, desestruturam o tecido social, destroem os meios de vivência das comunidades, levando ao aumento da pobreza.
Accaparement de terres : la Chine, l’Inde et les États-Unis aussi...
- visionscarto
- 06 October 2014
Lors d’une présentation au cours de laquelle je parlais de la série de cartes des appropriations de terres à l’étranger par les entreprises européennes, quelqu’un dans le public me posa cette question : et la Chine en Afrique ?
Mozambique: Peasants accuse presidential candidates of marginalising small scale agriculture
- ADECRU
- 06 October 2014
At international conference, peasants report that land grabbing is reaching alarming proportions in the northern region, in the so-called Nacala Corridor.
Colombia: Los trucos para robarse la tierra baldía
- Vanguardia
- 05 October 2014
En Colombia hay más formas de robar tierras baldías, que maneras de combinar una arepa.
Tierras de labor transnacionales
- El Pais
- 05 October 2014
Gobiernos y empresas han acaparado en los países en desarrollo un área mayor que México