AGCO CEO says his company is planning to have a second “future farm” in Nigeria because it’s also a very big market. AGCO's first "future farm' is in Zambia.
This edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter provides an overview of the process landgrabbing and of the possibilities of resisting it from our communities.
Publication by FIAN International discusses the discriminatory working conditions women agricultural workers endure, as well as their contribution to the food and nutrition security of their families and communities.
Bulgarian real estate investment trust Advance Terrafund said on Monday it sold 2,336 hectares of farmland.
A new $3 billion fund jointly initiated by the Beijing Agricultural Investment Fund and Yuhu Agriculture Investment Pty Ltd. is planning to invest $3 billion capital in various projects in Australia.
Authorities plan to arrest about 85 farmers who have occupied a large tract of land, formerly an oil palm plantation, in Plai Phraya district of Krabi today.
Un Forum foncier mondial aura lieu du 11 au 17 mai 2015 à Dakar.
"L'acquisition de terres à grande échelle non seulement réduit les terres disponibles pour les populations locales, mais aussi ce qui est disponible aux populations locales doit être encore subdivisé," indique Allan Moshi
Près de la moitié de la déforestation dans les pays tropicaux s’explique par la conversion illégale de terres en exploitations agricoles à vocation commerciale, selon une vaste étude publiée par l’organisation américaine Forest Trends
"Hoy tenemos por delante una lucha contra el monocultivo forestal (que goza de subsidios y exenciones impositivas) y la extranjerización de las tierras, como por ejemplo las que le entregaron a Tompkins y a Harvard".
"Los inversores corrían a África subsahariana y oriental para adquirir vastas extensiones de tierras y este fenómeno “no solo reducía el espacio disponible para la población local, sino que lo que les queda, además, tenían que subdividirlo por cuestiones de herencia”.
One of the main topics at the Mining and Food Security Forum in Khartoum was Sudan’s food production potential and the need for international cooperation, especially from Arab countries.
