One industry leader estimates that $10 billion in institutional capital is looking for access to US farmland, but that number could easily rise as investors seek to ride out uncertain financial times by placing their money in the perceived safety of agriculture.
El colonialismo no acabó en este país africano, que además de pagar impuestos a Francia por las obras construidas durante su dominio, ahora vende porciones enormes del territorio a empresas de dudosa reputación.
Magcor is investing $10 million USD to boost food production and security in Ghana after investing in Agricon Global last year.
Since Oxfam reported sugar land conflicts last year, two big buyers – Coca-Cola and PepsiCo – have stepped in with new supplier policies. But they have a long way to go
Esta Campanha tenciona ainda denunciar e repudiar todas as formas de manipulação, cooptação, intimidação e tentativas de criminalização das organizações da sociedade civil, lideranças e activistas que contestam o Prosavana.
Señaló que en Paraguay "luchar por la tierra puede costarte la vida" y que el acaparamiento de tierras expulsó a más de 500.000 jóvenes del campo.
Mayor of Sierra Leone's Kono City, Sahr Emerson Laminah, says the increasing rate of land-grabbing is a menace and nightmare in the district that has the potential for creating confusion in the country.
"This initiative represents the strengthening of our struggle against the aggression we are facing, against the privatization of land and in defence of our natural resources"
“Dizemos Não ao ProSavana assumindo o impacto nefasto e devastador que esse programa vai trazer para milhares de famílias camponesas residentes no corredor de Nacala”
Lawson Grains controls more than 42,000 hectares of prime cropping country in Australia.
Creating and digitising land registries could exacerbate unfair land grabs or further marginalise people who lack formal rights to land they live on or farm.
O nosso Convidado é Luís Muchanga, Coordenador, da União Nacional de Camponeses, UNAC, em Moçambique, com quem vamos analisar, a situação agrícola e a privatização da terra naquele país.
