Conferência do Banco Mundial sobre Terra e Pobreza - de 23 a 26 de abril, em Washington

Nous lançons un appel à toutes les organisations, personnalités, personnes qui veulent soutenir nos actions, faire respecter le droit et promouvoir l’agriculture familiale paysanne, d’envoyer cette lettre signée aux autorités maliennes avant le grand sit-in devant le tribunal de Markala le 3 mai

The global rush to buy farmland continues, and international investors are focusing on the poorest countries with weak land-rights security for deals, according to a report by the Land Matrix research group.

The World Bank and Wall Street firms targeted for African land deals displacing hundreds of thousands.

Exploring the fundamental data flaws in the Land Matrix dataset

Et si la vogue des nouveaux agrocarburants en Europe, et l’accaparement des terres contribuaient à affamer la planète ? Le débat est clairement posé par les ONG. Au Sénégal, un projet piloté par une société italienne soulève de vives protestations.

The Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate is a vast mega-project, a plan for over a million hectares of plantations and industrialised agriculture that threatens the people and environment across the southern part of West Papua. Indonesian and foreign companies have each claimed their share of the land, and offer the local Malind people next-to-nothing in exchange for the forest that has sustained them for countless generations.

Le projet Land Matrix s'est donné pour but d'insuffler un peu de rationalité et d'approche scientifique dans les débats sur les achats et locations de terres agricoles à grande échelle.

An international coalition of NGOs and research groups has published the world's largest database of land grab deals struck since 2000, offering unprecedented detail on who's investing, where and what for.

Les achats massifs de terres par des investisseurs étrangers dans le Tiers-Monde, vantés comme un moyen de sortir leurs populations du sous-développement, n'ont eu jusqu'à présent que de rares retombées sur l'emploi local, selon un rapport publié vendredi.

In 2009 Dororthy Dyton and about 2,000 other subsistence farmers in southern Malawi’s Chikhwawa District were informed by their local chief that the land had been sold and they could no longer cultivate there.

Land rights are essentially political issues; but where women’s land rights are concerned, the solutions take on a legal dimension.