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Agriculture familiale face à l’accaparement des terres en Afrique
- Fraternité
- 17 September 2009
Protéger le patrimoine génétique africain face à l’accaparement des terres par les multinationaux. Tel est le cheval de bataille de la Copagen.
Convention between Republic of Cameroon and SGSOC
- Cameroon Veritas
- 17 September 2009
Contract between the government of Cameroon and SGSOC granting the company control over 73,000 ha in Cameroon for 99 years, for the production of plam oil. SGSOC is a subsidiary of Herakles Farms, owned by US venture capital firm HeraklesCapital.
Going gaga over grain
- Dawn
- 17 September 2009
Last May, while Pakistan’s military was waging its offensive in Swat, Islamabad officials were simultaneously launching another offensive in the Gulf: a charm offensive to secure investment in Pakistani farmland.
The business of land
- The News
- 17 September 2009
It is unfortunate that even as deals that involve land which should belong to the people of Pakistan are struck, there has been so little public debate about the plan. We need to be informed of what is planned. Protests need too to be mobilized. In the prevailing political environment of Pakistan, the people who stand to lose the most have almost no spokesmen.
Farm sector seen drawing investment to Africa
- Reuters
- 17 September 2009
Growing demand for farm output is driving African agriculture and the sector could lead the continent's push for investment, an agribusiness manager for South Africa's Absa bank said on Thursday.
La course aux terres ne faiblit pas
- Politis
- 17 September 2009
Il est difficile de cerner l’ampleur réelle du phénomène récent d’appropriation de terrains cultivables dans les pays du Sud. Mais des études font fortement douter du bénéfice que ceux-ci pourraient en tirer.
COPAGEN preliminary declaration on family agriculture and land grabbing in Africa
- COPAGEN
- 16 September 2009
COPAGEN strongly recommends peasant organisations along with other sectors of the population to mobilise and to challenge the land grab transactions already made and, from the standpoint of food sovereignty, to discuss how to safeguard this land that is their heritage.
Copagen: La agricultura familiar frente al acaparamiento de tierras en África
- COPAGEN
- 16 September 2009
Recomendamos fervientemente a las Organizaciones Campesinas que, conjuntamente con otros sectores de la población, se movilicen y unan esfuerzos para cuestionar las concesiones ya efectuadas y participen de las reflexiones sobre la salvaguarda de su patrimonio territorial, base de la soberanía alimentaria.
Mozambique : Terms of authorization of project "Emvest Limpopo Project (Matuba Farm)"
- The Oakland Institute
- 16 September 2009
Provisional authorization for land exploitation (1 000 ha) in the Gaza province and Terms of authorization of project "Emvest Limpopo Project (Matuba Farm)"
COPAGEN : Déclaration liminaire sur l'agriculture familiale face à l’accaparement des terres en Afrique
- COPAGEN
- 16 September 2009
La COPAGEN mobilise pour arrêter la course effrénée vers l’expropriation « légalisée » des terres avec la complicité de certains décideurs
Koya Chiefdom signs 50 yr agric. land lease with Quifel
- Awoko Newspaper
- 16 September 2009
Land owners at Koya Chiefdom together with chiefdom elders and officials of Quifel have signed a 50 years land lease agreement for agricultural purposes.
PARC against leasing land to foreign investors
- Daily Times
- 16 September 2009
The government should enhance rural funding and at the same time curtail federal non-development expenditures in order to avoid leasing country’s land to foreign investors.
LHCBA asks govt not to sell land to foreign investors
- Daily Times
- 16 September 2009
The Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA), in a unanimously adopted resolution on Tuesday, demanded the government immediately withdraw leasing of agricultural land to other countries.
Allotment of land to Blackwater irks LHCBA
- The Nation
- 16 September 2009
The Lahore High Court Bar Association stated that farmlands were being acquired by the Arabs as front men for the Americans who would eventually use them for possible military bases, because Arabs had been front men in the bid to purchase Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) for an Indian businessman.
El neocolonialismo agrario amenaza con dejar sin alimentos a los países en desarrollo
- Capital News
- 15 September 2009
Casi 20 millones de hectáreas en África, Asia o América Latina han pasado a manos de gobiernos o inversores privados extranjeros