La semana pasada se celebró en la Antigua el foro global por la Tierra. Gobernanza territorial inclusiva y sostenible para la seguridad alimentaria: compartiendo lecciones de todo el mundo, organizado por la Coalición Internacional por la Tierra.
Casi desapercibido para los colombianos debido a que no tuvo el eco y la transcendencia que un tema de estos amerita, pasó el foro “Territorio, Extranjerización y Acaparamiento de la Tierra”, que se llevó a cabo en la capital de país la semana anterior
Harvard’s ownership of Agrícola Brinzal casts serious doubts on the wisdom of Harvard Management Company’s current policies.
Kenana, which is mainly owned by the governments of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Sudan, is aiming to more than double its annual sugar output to 1 million tonnes by 2015 as the firm seeks new export markets
It was their native customary land until palm oil companies came and claimed it their own. With the help of corrupt politicians, almost 9,000 hectares of forest and agricultural lands were flattened. Fences were put up, barring indigenous peoples from entering their own ancestral land. This is the story of Melikin. The story of many indigenous peoples in Sarawak.
Transcription d'une table ronde organisée à Paris le 8 avril 2013 avec Stefano Liberti, Olivier de Schutter, Luc Lamprière et Anne-Cécile Robert
Las empresas que arriendan grandes extensiones de tierras están en guerra con los propietarios de los campos que se niegan a asumir riesgos. La suba de costos y los alquileres por las nubes ya no hacen tan atractivo al negocio.
The company will also seek to obtain land concessions for additional rice cultivation in the districts of Soukhouma and Sanasomboun.
A forum of Saudi agricultural investors at the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry will on Sunday discuss the progress of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah’s Initiative for Saudi Agricultural Investment Abroad.
There is "a wall of money" looking for a home in agricultural investments worldwide, say managers for BlackRock's London-based World Agriculture Fund.
An independent investigation has shown that First Resources Ltd failed to obtain proper consent from local communities before clearing rainforests for plantations in Indonesian Borneo, an Indonesian indigenous rights group reported last week.
La nueva oleada de inversiones empresariales en tierras parece tener como objetivo la expansión e intensificación de un modelo de cultivo con poca visión de futuro, el cual, hasta la fecha, ha marginado las voces y los intereses de las mujeres.
