Charts: The top 5 land-grabbing countries
    Of the countries that lost the highest percentages of their cultivated land to land grabs, nine out of 10 have malnourishment rates of 5 percent or more.
    • Mother Jones
    • 06 February 2013
    Landowners or laborers: What choice will developing countries make?
    Would developing countries choose a development path built on inclusiveness, respect for the rights of their citizens, and the rule of law? Or would they seek a short-cut to development and opt to hand over community land and natural resources to international investors and national elites?
    • RRI
    • 06 February 2013
    Investir dans les terres des autres, un pari à haut risque
    Blocages de routes, émeutes aux portes, image écornée: les achats de terres peuvent tourner à la catastrophe pour les investisseurs quand les droits de propriétés des paysans sont bafoués, selon des travaux publiés mardi.
    • AFP
    • 05 February 2013
    AFD : agence française du dépouillement foncier
    A travers l’African Agriculture Fund (AAF), l’Agence française de développement (AFD) et PROPARCO, sa filiale pour le développement du secteur privé, investissent dans l’accaparement des terres en Afrique sub-saharienne.
    • Survie
    • 05 February 2013
    The global farmland rush
    Over the last decade, food-importing nations and private investors have been securing land abroad to use for agriculture. Poor governments have embraced these deals, but their people are in danger of losing their patrimony, not to mention their sources of food.
    • New York Times
    • 05 February 2013
    “Unheard voices” speak out
    Indigenous Ethiopians demand a stop to human rights abuses stemming from agricultural investment policies
    • Oakland Institute
    • 05 February 2013
    Global land grab brings investment risk, communities react to economic harm, rights abuses
    Risk analysts show that operational cost increases can approach 2,800 percent; Myanmar is latest flashpoint in alarming trend
    • RRI
    • 05 February 2013
    Aux origines de l’accaparement des terres
    Le ministre français du Développement se targue d’une diplomatie offensive pour un accord international pour l’encadrement des investissements agricoles - comme si des cadres de discussion pouvaient limiter les conséquences sociales dramatiques de l’expropriation des communautés qui vivent sur ces terres
    • Survie
    • 04 February 2013
    Por qué no extranjerizar la tierra rural
    Un gran debate recorre al mundo. Versa sobre los millones de hectáreas de tierras rurales de los países del tercer mundo que están siendo adquiridas por las potencias económicas y las trasnacionales del agronegocio y la especulación financiera e inmobiliaria.
    • MOIR
    • 04 February 2013
    Une filiale de Bolloré épinglée pour sa gestion des terres en Afrique
    Le Oakland Institute, un think-tank américain respecté pour la qualité de ses travaux, épingle les pratiques de la Socfin, une filiale du groupe Bolloré en Sierra Leone.
    • Reuters
    • 04 February 2013
    Minister of Agriculture meets Iranian Ambassador
    Sudan's Minister of Agriculture discusses aspects of joint cooperation with Iran in sugar beet crops, cotton, oilseeds and rice, expressing his ministry's keenness to remove all obstacles impeding the work of investors.
    • SUNA
    • 02 February 2013
    Government of Mauritania and Al-Rajhi sign MOU to transform the food security roadmap in the muslim world and collaborate on $1bn investments
    This agreement comes in line with King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz’s initiative to encourage agricultural investments abroad and the council’s ongoing efforts to develop and expand the field of agriculture.
    • NAQUA
    • 02 February 2013
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