• Declaração Conjunta - Banco Mundial: Fora da terra!
    • Vía Campesina
    • 27 April 2012

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

  • Urgent : Soutenir la mobilisation malienne contre l'accaparement des terres
    • CNOP, AOPP, UACDDD, CAD et LJDH
    • 27 April 2012

    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

  • Land rush continues, deals target poor, group says
    • Bloomberg
    • 27 April 2012

    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.

  • Activists challenge African 'land grab'
    • Real News
    • 27 April 2012

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

  • The Land Matrix: Much ado about nothing
    • Rural Modernity
    • 27 April 2012

    Exploring the fundamental data flaws in the Land Matrix dataset

  • Quand les agrocarburants européens affament la planète
    • RFI
    • 27 April 2012

    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.

  • An agribusiness attack in West Papua: Unravelling MIFEE
    • awasMIFEE
    • 27 April 2012

    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.

  • La course aux terres ne profite pas aux pays du Sud
    • Le Monde
    • 27 April 2012

    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.

  • International land deals: who is investing and where - get the data
    • The Guardian
    • 27 April 2012

    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.

  • Ruée sur les terres du Tiers-Monde: des retombées modestes sur l'emploi
    • AFP
    • 27 April 2012

    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.

  • Malawi: Without land reform, small farmers become "trespassers"
    • IRIN
    • 26 April 2012

    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.

  • 'Equality' is not enough
    • Pambazuka
    • 26 April 2012

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

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