Le Conseil des droits de l’homme des Nations-Unies a approuvé hier le lancement du processus d’élaboration de nouvelles normes internationales contraignantes sur les entreprises multinationales et les droits humains.
The GCC businessmen's body has called on the region's private sector to come together and jointly invest in agriculture, fishing and livestock breeding locally as well as overseas
Ce mois-ci dans le National Geographic France : La grande ruée vers les terres agricoles d’Afrique
« Je ne comprends pas pourquoi des centaines d’hectares sont donnés à des étrangers, alors que la priorité devrait être de rendre ces terres accessibles à nos agriculteurs » argue Doudou Sow, petit exploitant de la région de Saint-Louis, dans le nord du Sénégal.
Nigeria's Sokoto state government has approved the allocation of 33,000 hectares of farmland to Dangote Group of companies for the plantation of sugarcane.
Felda hopes to acquire New Britain Palm Oil Ltd, which has 77,000ha of oil palm plantations, 7,700ha of sugar cane plantations and 9,200ha of grazing pastures in Papua New Guinea.
The three parties expressed their intention to strengthen the co-operation in the field of reshaping and draining agricultural land belonging to Rabo Farm in the Zulawy delta in the North of Poland, close to Gdansk.
La corsa alla terra, o land grabbing, è uno dei temi più controversi del momento. Per qualcuno è un'opportunità economica, per altri una forma di sfruttamento.
AGInvest Properties, which owns and manages farmland across Ontario, Canada, has entered into a Shari’ah Advisory agreement with Shariyah Review Bureau to attract Islamic investors in Canada, GCC and elsewhere.
Près de dix-huit mois après sa signature, l'accord entre le Groupe Louis-Dreyfus et les autorités ivoiriennes visant à tripler la production annuelle de riz du pays n'a pas connu l'ombre d'un début de commencement.
180 citizens of Sierra Leone propose measures to combat land grabbing at the National Conference on Land and the Constitution in Freetown.
The Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food and Bread For All release this year’s Monitoring Report on the sugarcane-to-ethanol project of the Swiss firm Addax Bioenergy.
