La expansión frenética y masiva de los monocultivos en América Latina, colocan en condiciones precarias a campesinos, pueblos indígenas y negros; además de generar un enorme impacto ambiental.
Move to seek an extension of AGM date comes after a series of issues it has been facing at its expansive roses farms in Kenya and allegations of land grab at its ambitious agriculture foray in Ethiopia.
Organizaciones campesinas, sindicales, sociales y ecologistas piden la titularidad de las tierras de la Fundación San Nicolás (intervenida por el gobierno provincial) y reclaman el fin del avance de las plantaciones forestales de Harvard y otras empresas.
September 11: eight ethnic Majengir murdered by in cold blood by Ethiopian highlanders in Godere District, Gambela as tensions between settlers and indigenous peoples escalate.
La plus grande menace pour les forêts vient aujourd'hui de l'agriculture commerciale
Secretary General of the Federation of GCC Chambers Abdulrahim Hasan Naqi has stressed the need to expand the role of sovereign funds to have investments in agriculture.
WEMS Agro Companies Limited plans to invest about $2.2 million into rice cultivation in a 25,000 ha rice project in Ondo state with Chinese partners.
Comment la nouvelle alliance du G8 menace la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique. Un rapport publié par le CCFD-Terre Solidaire, Oxfam France et Action contre la Faim
Oxfam policy adviser Robin Willoughby shrugs off the big ag groupthink and argues that the current trend of mega projects in African agriculture is a risky and unproven way to help poor farmers.
While Chinese investors, like Ms Qiao, are in Australia looking at farms, an Australian real estate company has headed to China to find buyers for Australian farming properties.
L’accaparement des terres arables mondiales s’étend de jour en jour. Il ne s’agit pas seulement de l’exploitation pour des entreprises agricoles mais aussi l’extractivisme.
The cause of this high level insecurity and loss of innocent peoples' lives is a government policy to take away the indigenous communities land and give it to so called investors both foreigners and Ethiopian highlanders.
