Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday that the temporary halt on granting economic land concessions to new companies will be extended until he retires from politics.
Les précisions de Clara Jamart, chargée des questions des terres à Oxfam en France.
"Aux gouvernements de ne pas brader leurs terres," explique Kanayo F. Nwanze, président du FIDA.
International groups give full support and solidarity to the farmers in Burma/Myanmar in resisting land grabs in their country
In Ukraine, MPs did not extend land sale moratorium, but experts say it is legally impossible to launch market on January 1, 2013
The Chinese conglomerate that bought the Crafar Farms this year is not ruling out the possibility of buying more New Zealand dairy land to fuel its exports to China.
La Banque mondiale a rejeté un appel à suspendre son implication dans l'acquisition à grande échelle de terres agricoles suite à la publication d'un grand rapport de l'organisation humanitaire internationale Oxfam sur l'impact négatif de la spéculation foncière internationale dans les pays en développement.
In 2010 alone, land-clearing for oil palm plantations in Kalimantan emitted more than 140 million metric tons of carbon dioxide – an amount equivalent to annual emissions from about 28 million vehicles.
Former World Bank rural advisor Derek Byerlee to tell conference that fears of a foreign farm land grab in Australia are unfounded.
This article is part of a series of feature stories on land grabbing in selected countries in Asia, as part of an awareness-raising campaign on how land grabs worsen hunger, in commemoration of 'World Foodless Day' on October 16 by PAN AP and its partner organisations. (http://www.panap.net/wfd)
The credibility of the international Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has been called into question over its failure to act against a company bulldozing ancestral forests and perpetrating human rights abuses in Indonesia.
Les membres du Parlement panafricain, du Comité interparlementaire de l'Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine (UEMOA) et ceux du parlement béninois, ont invité ce vendredi à Cotonou les chefs d'Etats africains à réagir de toute urgence au phénomène d'accaparement des terres sur le continent africain.
