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‘Karaturi has no business being in the flower industry’
- Flora Culture International
- 18 December 2013
The Kenya Flower Council foresees huge implications for the country when Karuturi goes down, reports Flora Culture International
Exploração da terra em Nampula: Necessário envolvimento comunitário
- Noticias
- 18 December 2013
A governadora de Nampula, Cidália Chaúque, defendeu há dias na capital provincial a necessidade de as comunidades, sobretudo rurais, serem consideradas sempre como interlocutoras válidas na posse e exploração da terra.
Green Rush: How big agriculture is carving up Africa for industrial farmland.
- Foreign Policy
- 18 December 2013
African countries are also welcoming big agricultural projects bankrolled by foreign investors whose goal is to send food abroad.
Bolivia: Exigen al Gobierno la nacionalización de tierras con dueños extranjeros
- EJU TV
- 18 December 2013
Más de 800 pobladores de El Palmar, departamento de Santa Cruz llegaron a la sede de gobierno para movilizarse y exigir a las autoridades del ejecutivo la nacionalización de tierras.
Prise de terres
- La Ligne du Temps
- 18 December 2013
Nouveau documentaire de 52 minutes qui expose des situations d'accaparement de terres en France, en Inde et au Sénégal.
Agriculture au Sénégal : L’accaparement des terres fertiles touche 30 % des surfaces arables disponibles
- Le Soleil
- 17 December 2013
Au Sénégal, le phénomène touche déjà 669.958 ha, soit près de 30 % des surfaces arables disponibles, selon le nouveau secrétaire exécutif d’Enda Tiers-monde
Farmers struggle to survive in Eastern Germany
- Deutsche Welle
- 17 December 2013
Young farmers in eastern Germany are scrambling to find land as they compete with large multinationals.
SEFE qualifie l’accord foncier passé par le Président du Cameroun avec l’entreprise américaine Herakles Farms d’injustice grave et d’entrave aux valeurs conventionnelles
- SEFE
- 17 December 2013
Les décrets présidentiels qui attribuent une portion du domaine national à Herakles ont des relents de colonialisme et d’esclavage.
Colombia: Extranjerización de la tierra
- Crónica del Quindio
- 17 December 2013
La norma busca poner controles para evitar operaciones especulativas de la tierra, ante la paulatina ocupación de este bien natural, lo que lo va haciendo cada día más escaso.
Women in Sierra Leone: Resisting dispossession
- Open Democracy
- 16 December 2013
Women in Sierra Leone are losing their land and livelihoods in the face of land grabs, discriminatory traditions and customs, and the lack of a strong legal framework, reports Mariama Tarawallie of the Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiLNoRF)
Trans-Latin business and land grabbing in Latin America
- ALAI
- 16 December 2013
Land grabbing has taken on a distinct characteristic in Latin America, as Cristobal Kay, a specialist in development and agrarian reform, explains.
SEFE calls President of Cameroon's land deal with US company Herakles Farms a grave injustice and hindrance to conventional values
- SEFE
- 16 December 2013
Three Presidential decrees attributing lands to Herakles Farms in the South West region of Cameroon are reminiscent of colonialism and slavery.