European leaders hosted on land grab site in Laos for key summit
    Between 2010 and 2011, the 500 residents of Don Chan Island in central Vientiane were forced off their land to make way for accommodation for delegates such as William Hague and François Hollande.
    • Global Witness
    • 02 November 2012
    African farmers should reap benefits of land acquisition
    African governments should use the proceeds from land leased to foreign investors to subsidize the cost to local farmers of modernizing their farming methods or to build infrastructure and improve production, according to researchers
    • AfDB
    • 02 November 2012
    Installation de Sen-ethanol à Ronkh : Quatre blessés lors d’affrontements entre populations et gendarmes
    Ce projet italien est vraiment maudit. Après Fanaye où il y a eu mort d’hommes, poussant sa délocalisation à Gnith après de multiples moult tractations, il vient de causer des dégâts dans la communauté rurale de Ronkh.
    • DakarActu
    • 02 November 2012
    Chinese group vying for Australian farm project
    A Chinese conglomerate and Australia’s largest beef producer are amongst contenders vying for rights to farm an agricultural area equal in size to 21,000 soccer pitches in Western Australia.
    • Wall Street Journal
    • 02 November 2012
    Serbian farmland to provide substantial amount of UAE's food
    A 20,000 ha tranche of Serbian farmland bought by an Abu Dhabi firm should be providing a substantial amount of the UAE's food within the next five years.
    • The National
    • 01 November 2012
    African land solutions: making the resource blessing a reality
    Lessons need to be learned to transform Africa's ‘resource curse’ into a ‘resource blessing’ and to mitigate against the negative impacts of large land-based investments.
    • IIED
    • 01 November 2012
    La concentración de tierra en América Latina vive un cambio profundo, dice un informe
    En cuanto a los lugares donde el "acaparamiento de tierras" está creciendo, este proceso se da no tanto porque se monopolice la propiedad sino porque se están dando prácticas como el alquiler o la creación de grupos de inversores en tierras.
    • EFE
    • 01 November 2012
    Foreign farmers undermine food security in Zambia
    Increased agricultural development in Zambia will actually compromise the country’s food security as peasant farmers continue to be driven off their customary land to pave the way for large-scale local and foreign agribusiness.
    • IPS
    • 01 November 2012
    Land-grabbing's global threat
    Of the many issues brought to the table at the Slow Food joint Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre event this week in Turin, Italy, one of the most pressing is land-grabbing.
    • Huffington Post
    • 01 November 2012
    Land grabbing: What has changed?
    What should be done about land grabs, and who should do it, remains a topic of intense debate on the international stage.
    • Huffington Post
    • 01 November 2012
    La loi agricole inquiète les exploitants belges actifs en RDC
    La loi n°11/022 du 24 décembre 2011 portant principes fondamentaux relatifs à l’agriculture en RDC les inquiète parce qu’elle prévoit qu’un an après son entrée en vigueur, soit en juin 2013, les exploitations doivent être possédées à 51 % par des Congolais.
    • Le Potentiel
    • 01 November 2012
    Sea intrusion takes over 2.6 million acres of fertile land
    The World Forum of Fisher People (WFFP) and Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) while welcoming the report designed by Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, who warned of the threat of ‘ocean-grabbing’ to food security, and urged world governments and international bodies to halt the depletion of fish stocks, and take urgent steps to protect, sustain, and share the benefits of fisheries and marine environments.
    • Daily Times
    • 01 November 2012

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