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Petition against landgrab in the state of Odisha, India
- SOLIDARITÉ
- 16 April 2013
Please sign and share the petition
Pétition contre l’accaparement des terres dans l’État d’Odisha, Inde.
- SOLIDARITÉ
- 16 April 2013
Signez et diffusez la pétition pour l’arrêt du projet d’accaparement
Lack of transparency when Swedish Pension Fund AP2 invests in farmland in Brazil
- Swedwatch
- 16 April 2013
A new Swedwatch report shows a lack of transparency and inadequate auditing of ethics and environmental impacts in AP2’s investment in farmland in Brazil. For business reasons, the investment is surrounded by a high level of secrecy, which makes scrutiny from the outside impossible.
Gabon : La communauté internationale se mobilise pour Marc Ona Essangui
- Le Podcast Journal
- 15 April 2013
La condamnation de Marc Ona Essangui, leader de la société civile gabonaise, a une peine de six mois de prison avec sursis et au paiement d’une amende de 5 millions de francs cfa a suscité une levée de boucliers hors des frontières gabonaises.
Uganda condena a una multinacional a devolver sus tierras a 2.000 campesinos
- El País
- 15 April 2013
Tras 10 largos años de pelea, un juez ugandés finalmente se ha pronunciado dando la razón a 400 familias campesinas a quienes echaron, pegaron y arrebataron sus tierras para cederlas a una multinacional alemana de café, Neuman Kaffee Gruppe.
Dubai needs food from Africa
- Halal Focus
- 15 April 2013
Pressed on which countries in Africa would be suitable food sources, Hisham Abdullah Al Shirawi, the chairman of Economic Zones World, says the test would be countries where water was in abundance and which were not spoilt by strife.
Who owns the land? Cameroon's large-scale land-grabs
- Think Africa Press
- 15 April 2013
As part of a trend that is accelerating across Africa, thousands of Cameroonians have been displaced from their homelands to make way for large-scale agribusiness projects.
La ruée vers l'or vert en question
- RFI
- 15 April 2013
Depuis le début des années 2000, un nouveau phénomène mobilise l’attention des chercheurs et des ONG : les acquisitions de terres à grande échelle, par des multinationales, des fonds de pension, des banques ou des Etats. Clara Jamart, Stefano Liberti et Sébastien Abis sur RFI.
40% des terres arables attribuées à des privés, selon un universitaire
- APS
- 15 April 2013
"Si la tendance continue en dix ans aucune terre arable ne sera disponible au Sénégal", selon Alpha Ba, membre du Groupe d’études et de recherches genre et sociétés de l’Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis.
"Sons and Daughters of the Earth": Indigenous communities and land grabs in Guatemala
- FoodFirst/TNI
- 15 April 2013
Indigenous peasant families in northern Guatemala are struggling to access land and defend their resources as the basis of their collective identity.
The Saudi-Sudanese Investment Forum - Is it a rehearsal for other Arab investments?
- Sudan Vision
- 14 April 2013
President Omar Al-Beshir has made orders for removal of all impediments and facilitation of the procedures for Saudi Arabian investors aiming to produce food in Sudan, including through land leases
'Quick-fix' development gives away more than it gets back
- Al Jazeera
- 14 April 2013
The "land grabbing" in Africa and elsewhere often triggers conflict, an underreported financial risk, says Samuel Nguiffo